POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.* ' "PENALTY OF UNEMPLOYMENT. John Wynn, an elderly man, without 1 money or employment, pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy. He had been found sleeping in the recesses of buildings about the city. He was sent to gaol for 14 days. COLLECTOR IN TROUBLE. John Hare Masters, for whom Mr. Allan Moody appeared, pleaded guilty to the theft of £6, the property of Win. A. Home, Ltd., by whom he was employed as a collector at a salary 0 f £4 10/ a week. Chief Detective Mcllveney stated that there we're 25 charges against the accused, who admitted having embezzled * a total of £51 14/10. A member of the firm stated that Masters was a first-class business man. who had done his work faithfully and well until Christmas, when he took to drink. Provided he refrained from drink the firm would be quite prepared to take Masters back if a position became vacant in the office. Mr. Moody pleaded for a chance for his client, who had hitherto led a blameless life, and who was now striving to go straight. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first charge. and convicted and discharged on the others. BREACH OF PROBATION. Clarence Herbert Lorigan (Mr. Sellar), who failed to comply with ah order of the Court to pay £72 damages in connection with a smashed motor car which resulted from his taking a "joy ride" with some friends, was charged with a breach of his probation. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sen•,tence on condition that he paid for the 'damage. The. money was paid into ~ Court by some relatives, and Lorigan was released. SEAMAN GOES STEALING. John Edward Condren, a seaman, pleaded guilty to breaking into the cabin of a motor launch on the harbour and stealing a gramophone and records and articles of ciothing valued at £35, the property of Harold Gordon Carr, cashier of the Union Steamship Company. Accused was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. YOUTHS STEAL MOTOR CAR. Two young men—Frank Joseph Wood and Harold Joseph Whittle—pleaded guilty to charges of fjaving stolen a motor car, valued at £500, the property of Arthur Beale, at Frankton Junction, and having stolen some rugs and miscellaneous articles valued at £7 10/ from a launch belonging to Dr. Moir. Wood was further charged with having broken into and entered the premises of Messrs. Whittaker and Taylor, of Karangahape Road, and stolen therefrom a quantity of clothing and jewellery valued at £14. Evidence was given that the motor car was taken from its garage, which had been broken into at Frankton Junction on March 22. On March 25 Dr. Moir discovered that his launch, lying in Auckland Harbour, had been broken into and burgled. The youths, *who made a full confession to the police concerning their misdeeds,. were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. SPLASHING UNCLE'S MONET. A charge of having stolen £110 in money, the property of William Cochrane, was preferred against William Henry Pevreal. Evidence was given that accused was a nephew of Mr. Cochrane, who is a butcher at Onehunga. The money was missed from a chest of drawers in the room of prosecutor's sister on February 21, and the accused disappeared and did not afterwards return to the house. It was stated by accused's mother that he knew the money was in her chest of drawers aa he had heard his uncle talking about it. The visited a woman acquaintance on February 21 with a large role of notes, and told her that she could have "a couple of fivers" J she liked. He then gave her two £5 notes and a £1 note, which she afterwards handed to Detective Meiklejohn. Accused also bought boots and clothing for the woman's children, a ring and wristlet watch for the woman (which <?he refused to accept) and a gold watch and chain and a blue suit for himself. He told the woman that he had come' '.nto £120 through the death of an uncle in Australia. Then he went for a trip to Wellington, Gisborne and Napier, having a good time until the money was spent. Accused pleaded guiTty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. ANOTHER MOTOR. THEFT. A young man named William George McKernon (Mr. Wyatt) pleaded guilty to having stolen a Ford motor car, valued at £230, the property of J. F. F. Lambert, at Helensville, on August 15 of last year. Evidence was given that the car was stolen from a garage and brought to Auckland. It was not located by the owner until December last. The accused, who had fonnerlt* been employed by the owner of the car as a motor mechanic, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.