MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 431, 30 October 1875, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

—— ♦ ■ CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday, October 30. (Before G. L. Hellish, Esq, R.M.) Disorderly Conduct. —Nicholas Smith, charged with creating a disturbance in the City Hotel, was fined 10s. Drunk and Using Obscene Language. —John Marshall, arrested for being drunk and using obscene language in a public thoroughfare, was fined 20s. Drunk and Disorderly. —Daniel Roley, for this offence, was fined 10s. Burglary. —Anne Lee was brought up charged with breaking into the Eastern Hotel and stealing some spirits. Inspector Feast said the woman had been drinking and had cut herself getting in through a window. He had her taken to the hospital, and Dr Guthrie did not wish to keep her there longer. He would ask for a remand. Remanded until the Bth November. Larceny. —W. J. Leigh was brought up on warrant charged with stealing three packets of seeds belonging to Mr Wm Wilson. The accused had been arrested by Detective Thomson, who said he was drunk at the time. Alexander Burnett, foreman for Mr Wilson, at the nursery, Cashel street, stated that accused was in his employ some time ago. On the 22nd inst, prisoner was in the office at the nursery. After some conversation he (witness) went out for a moment, and as he passed the window saw the accused under the table. There were Californian conifera seeds under the table, and afterwards he took three packets of seeds, and two or three handfuls of seeds from accused. The packets produced are those he took from him, and would be valued here at about £7. The invoice' price was £4. The accused asked his Worship to grant him a remand, so that he might obtain a solicitor. Inspector Feast said that the accused had spoken about having Mr Joynt, and he (the inspector) had met that gentleman and told him when the man would he brought up. Mr J. S. Williams told his Worship that he appeared to watch the case for Mr Wilson, and he could produce evidence to show that accused called on Mr Wilson next morning to apologise for the theft. Accused told the Bench that he had been to a land sale all that afternoon, and was under the influence of liquor when he went to the nursery. His Worship said it was certainly a case of deliberate theft. Accused would be sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, with hard labour.