POLICE COURT.
(Before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Three first offenders were fined 5/ I apiece and one forfeited bail. James' I Conroy (42) was fined 10/ for a second offence. AN IMPULSIVE ACT. Gladys McCloughen (17) admitted the theft of a wristlet watch, valued at 12/6. It was stated that the girl was of good parentage and character. She went to a friend's for a handbag, of which she had obtained the loan, and in the course of getting the bag she noticed a. wristlet watch, which she took away and pawned for 1/. There was no explanation for the theft, except that of sudden impulse, and a failure to realise the serious nature of the act. The girl was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. MISCELLANEOUS. Robert E. Bresano (58), for failure to comply with a maintenance order respecting his wife, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended on payment of £11 arrears. An information against Kio Hori Eakite, of having failed to maintain his wife, was dismissed, the parties having failed to become reconciled again during the course of a week's adjournment, and the evidence suggesting that the case was one of infidelity rather than of failj™ jpainiaJD.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 168, 16 July 1918, Page 4
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211POLICE COURT. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 168, 16 July 1918, Page 4
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