POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

Before Mr. Poynton, S.M.. and Mr. A. J. Stratford. J.P. MEMBERS OF A NEWTON GANG. Three youths, Ernest Browning Rovre, John William Macown. and Ronald hri.Phimester each pleaded guilty "hen charged with stealing one gramophone record, valued at 7/0, the property of Howie's. Phimester also pleaded guilty ■to stealing fancy goods valued at tl 1-V ithe property of J. Brenmin, attempting Ito steal a'cardigan jacket valued at 130/ the property of Hugh Wright, I In askinn- that all three accused shoulu be remanded for one week for sentence, Chief Detective Cumminga said that they belonged to a Newton gang who had been lin the habit of hanging round shop i fronts to see what they could steal. ! Jemmies had been used in breaking into I places. The magistrate refused to order I suppression of accuseds' names, remarkling that it was not the first time they I had been before the court. BEAT THE MILKMAN. A young man of 10. whose name was I ordered to 1h? suppressed, pleaded guilty Jto stealing l">/2 the property of Beatrice I Clow. . Senior Sergeant Edwards said that accused had been employed as a canvasser for a firm in Northcote. across the harbour. He stole the money which had been left by Mrs. Clow for the milkman and converted it to his own use It was his first appearance in court and the offence was evidently the result of a sudden temptation. lie was admitted to probation for 'one year and ordered to refund the sum . stolen. IN A CHINESE GARDEN. The circumstances of a raid upon a Chinese vegetable garden in Pilkington Road. VTest Tawnoki. on a recent Sunday, were detailed by the senior sergeant when six young men'stood charged with stealing' six cabbages valued at 3/U the property of Hi Foong. The sextet whose names, by the way. the magistrate directed should not be published, were further charged with behaving in a disorderly manner. Senior Sergeant Edwards said that both charges arose out of the one set of circumstances. All the defendants went out on an excursion on a motor lorry one recent Sunday, taking with them a keg of beer. After dancing and singing, anil drinking had been indulged in on the public road, all adjourned to :\ Chinese garden, where they plucked a half dozen cabbages. The Chinese chased the intruders away from the property. Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who appeared for all the accused, described the affair as I a bit of skylarking. One of the six men J had just purchased a new motor lorry i and took the five other men out on a trial spin, .ius-t to see how the vehicle would >*o. They certainly went into the Chinese gardens and picked the cabbage?. 1 but did not take them away. Counsel ! suggested that, as nothing was previously I known against any of his clients, the j magistrate might exercise his powers land dismiss the charges under section JO2 of the Justices of the Peace Act. Mr. Poynton said that the charges I were not of a serious nature and disi missed them on n payment of witnesses' I expenses. STONE THROWING. A fine of £1 and costs was inflicted upon Joseph G. Melrose. who threw stones to the danger of property in Jubilee Road. LANGUAGE IN A BUS. Flenry Hansen, for whom Mr. Blakey appeared to plead guilty to a charge of having used indecent language to an Anglican clergyman, in a motor bus over •at Sirkenliead. was fined £o and costs 13/.