ALLEGED POCKET-PICKING.
A mean theft is alleged to have been com mitted by two men, named John Rd. Consi dine and Matthew Charles Parsons, on the 25th of April, at the Thames Hotel. These men appeared at the Police Court this morning before Messrs W. McCullongh and S. Y. Collins, Justices, to answer to the charge of having stolen £110s from the person of a native woman named Jane Hobbs.
Mr F. Shortland appeared for the ac cused Parsons and Sergeant-Major Pratt conducted the case for the prosecu tion, while Mr Hammond officiated as in terpreter; Jane Hobbs deposed to having lost her purse while in the hotel. It con tained a one pound note and some silver. Afterwards she cot her purse, but there was only one shilling in it. She remem bered seeing the prisoners in tbe bar of tbe hotel.
Mary Ann Codlin, housemaid at the Thames Hotel, deposed that on the evening in question she was assisting as barmaid, when she saw the informant sitting in a room near the bar. Considine cane in and sat by Jane Hobbs, quite close. Parsons stood behind Considine. Witness noticed Considine put his hand in the woman's pocket. She also saw him with her purse in hie hand. This he passed to Parsons. Witness said, " You nave that woman's puree." Parsons did not reply, but went out of the room, followed by Considine.
