THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17861, 6 September 1923, Page 7

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL.

WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr Wyrern Wilson, S.M.) DRTJXEENXESS. Two first effanders were each fined 53, in default, 21 hours' imprisonment. REMANDED. Alfred Edward Holmes (Mr W. J. Craa ?f' r Wilson) was charged that on September «a, at Chris tchurch, he did a^en i?v ° to know a girl aged 12 years. T-h® "C was remanded till September 12th. ADMITTED TO PROBATION". Edward William Joseph Glover Williams, aged 3S, appeared for sentence on a c arg that he v:as deemed to be an idle an . 1 , orderly person in that he had *nsu c. lawful means of support. He and admitted to probation for twelve ALLEGED THEFT. j Ronald Chss. Brown (Mr C. S Thomas) was charged that on Sept-ember 6th, -> did steal the eum of £i 2a in money from Archbold Brothers, Ltd. He was remanded till September 12th, bail being al.owed celf in £2OO, and two sureties of £IOO each. alleged trespass. Edward Dobin McGee was charged that on August 15th at Addington, he being a person excluded from the Metropolitan Trot.m Club's course, he did trespass o course during" a race meeting". Hb manded till August 14th.. UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS. Mary Jane Elizabeth Peters (Mr C. S. Thomas) was charged that shj dd siga three receipts liable to stamp duty, under the Stamp Duties Act, 1903, without affixm„ a The Magistrate said that he d:d not think that the accused had wilfully tried to evade the Act. It appeared to him to ,°® J*™" lessness becaruse out of about eighty ceipts only three had been unstamped. She was fined Ms on each of the charges. FAILING TO ENTER PURCHASE. John Reynolds, a second-hand dealer, w« charged that on June 26th he did unlawfully fail to enter into the book prescribed y Section 8 of the Act, at the time of buym 0 , a Becond-har.d article. The accused, who pleaded not , fined £5 and costs. The Magistrate said hj» had no sympathy with second-hand who acted bs hedges for stolen articles. REFORMATIVE TREATMENT. James Howard Goffin appealed charged with the thrft of goods, including aJug barrelled shot gun, to the value of £12.145, ttts property of one James Brown, -J" was convicted and ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for two years. Frederick Richard Close (Mr H. • Raphael) was charged that he did .tod. (1) Between August 22nd and /6th goods and money to the value of £6 2s byf-vea pretences; (2) August 28th, boo*> to value of 27s 2d, by means of a false pr tence- (3) between August 15ih and 20th, goods to the value of £3 7s by means of I fals, pretence; (4) August 21st g value of 15s 2d by means of a pret . (5) August 19th, obtaining 3s worth by means of a false P; et^ Ce ' acc ° 3e d 23th one ring va.ucd at acd wa3 pleaded gui.ty toa ' lth ® be "detained for convicted and ordered to handle bars, valued at 235, the proper y thehasdle ' ta from two young boy, for ss, and tried to put them on his own bicycle but they would not fit. Ho then them for sale and received a rep.y. The P« who' replied turned out to be the owner or information was dismissed, the Magistrate remarking that the story told by the accused did not appear to be the story of a guilty man.

IN OTHER PLACES.

FOLLOWING a criminal career. (press association telegram.) AUCKLAND, September 5. His Honour Mr Justice Herdman admitted some difficulty in the Supreme> Coiirt to-daj in dealing with the case of Frank Bal.er, who, though only twenty-one, had followed a criminal career since 1917, and had escaped from custody while serving a sentence of fire years' reformative detention, getting out of Mount Eden Gaol on July 21st, and subsequently breaking and entering a store at Whakatane. The accused had qualified to be declared an habitual criminal, his Honour said; but he would not take this drastic course. He sentenced Bftl'er to three years' imprisonment with hard labour for breaking and enterin?, and a year for escaping from custody, the sentences to be concurrent.