Mr Brookfield stated the circumstances,

The particulars of this robbery will be fresh in the memory of readers as they ap peared in the Star at the time. John O'Connor, the prosecutor, deposed that he was a shoemaker, of Whangapoa, and on the 27th of January, he came to Auckland, partly on business, and partly on pleasure. He lodged in Grey-street, and on the fol lowing (Sunday) morning, he went for a stroll down Queen-street, with notes, gold, and orders, in his pocket, amounting to £50. ■. He met the female prisoner, Mrs Kelly, by the Greyhound Hotel, who said she felt poorly, having been up all night, and she requested him to shout. Her hus band, Kelly, the shoe-black, and Nichols, a trotter man, were opposite, and on seeing him, they said " There's Jack, now we are in for a drink." He knew them of old, and tried to avoid them. Mrs Kelly hnng about him, and said she was dying for a drop. She desired him to give her the . price, and she knew where to get the "cratur." They went to Commercial street, and at Riordan's they had sundry drinks ; he got very funny in "the head, and Mrs Kelly wished him to go home with her; , her little house was up a liill, but he was not inclined. He gave her money to get breakfast, she grumbled, and he gave her more. She then wheedled him into Chancery lane. The other prisoners were there, and other diink was brought, in and. drank ; he believed Nichols fetched the beer and brandy. He then gave them money to get dinner with, and remembered ' no more, until he picked himself up from the floor late in the evening, when he found that all his money had passed from ' his pockets. Mrs Kelly said to her hus« ! band, "I told you not "to touch the man's ; pockets." He gave information to the ■ police, and Sergeant Connor returned with him to the houses of the Kellys and . Nichols. They found some of the money; in both houses, in a variety of places, which he described. '

To Nichols : You asked me to come to your house to see Aunt Sally, then you wanted drink.
