POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 223, 19 September 1919, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

. i (Before Mr. J. E. Wikon. 5..M.) DRUNKENNESS. ! Agnes Ingeetre (40) and Harry Ellis (•tI), both of whom appeared as second offenders, were fined 10/ each, in default 4R hours' imprisonment. Thou, Edward Blenkin (-14), who did not appear to answer for a second lapse, was iine.l 20/. A first offender forfeited bail. ' ; WITH THE EVIDENCE ON HIM. ' Thomas Anthony Dayes. a middle-aged man, admitted the theft of a tweed overcoat, a raincoat, and a brief bag and contents last month. The tweed coat, value £S, was stolen from the British Hotel, and the brief hag. containing a change of clothing and a shaving outfit, valued at £8, was taken from the Aurora Hotel. Accused stated he didn't know where he got the raincoat, and its owner had not been found. Hayes had stolen these things in Auckland, and hud moved on to Whangarei, whore he had been caught in a theft of jewellery, and committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The goods stolen in Auckland were then found in hw possession, with the exception of the brief bag and a razor, which he said lie had sold to a man in the street for 4/. | Daves, was remanded for seven days, , pending his being dealt with by the Supreme Court on the jewellery theft AFTER A TRIP TO ROTORTJA. Edith Crimelda Tokio, a married woman, admitted having received from James V. Morrison a silver-plated teapot (value 50/), a crepe dc chine nightdress, and a gold brooch ( value £7 -I/), knowing the goods to have been stolen. Chiofdeteetive McMalion stated that accused was a woman with a family of eight children and a. husband who was a steady, industrious man. The wife, however, had got into flighty habits. She liiul gone to Kotorua, and there fallen in with a man (Morrison), who was believed to have boon stealing things in several places, and had formed a foolish intimacy with the man. nc had given her the goods mentioned, and she had concealed them when the police went looking for them. Mr. R. E. Matthews put in a plea for leniency for the sake of the husband and children, and stated that the husband was prepared to overlook his wife's folly and to take her back to the home. j Accused was convicted and put on probation for eighteen months, with special ! conditions as to the regulation of her liberty of action by the Probation Officer. STILL KEEPING COMPANY. Elizabeth Sindelin (50), Ethel Scott (34), and Minnie Richardson (44) were charged with vagrancy in that they habitually consorted with undesirables. The evidence was to the effect that on a very large number of occasions during the past three months the accused had been seen drinking in company at hotels and in the streets adjacent to hotels with men of indifferent character. Scott and Richardson were stated to have j come from Wellington several months' ago, having come under the notice of tho! police in Wellington. I Sindelin was sentenced to a month's hard labour. Richardson to two months,] and Scott to three months. GIRLS AND DRESS. "I suppose if you dress like that you've got to steal from somebody ?" remarked his Worship to two young shop-girls, ! Kathleen Johnson (18) and Annie Amelia Fitzsimmons (10), who were i drossed in smart costumes, and admitted having stolen a pair of suede gloves and a silk blouse. The circumstances stated were that they wore employed in a Queen ■ Street shop, one getting 25/ a week and the other 20/ a week. On August 28 a woman called at the shop and left her suit case there for a time, subsequently getting it. When she got home she found the goods in the suit case had been overhauled, and a pair of gloves and a silk blouse were missing. She returned to the shop, made inquiries, and eventually stated sJie would see the police on the subject. When Plainelothes Constable MeHugh went to the shop he found that the girls had had a look over the suit case, and that one had taken the gloves and the other the blouse. When they knew the police were on the track they put the articles in the dust bin, with the result that they went away to the destructor. The girls had never previously been in any trouble. After commenting on the disparity between the girls' wages and their style of dress his Worship convicted them and ordered them to come up for sentence if called on within six months.