MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21081, 5 February 1934, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SATURDAY. (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) ON LICENSED PREMISES AFTER HOURS. Heffernan Thomas Buckley, of Kinloch street, and Ernest Walton Beck, of Frederick street:, were each fined 20s and costs for being found on the licensed premises of the Zetland Hotel after hours. They made voluntary appearances. IDLE AND DISORDERLY. Maureen Kitteridgei Russell, alias Hazel Mary Carswell, alias Clark, aged 33 years, a nurse, of no fixed abode, was charged with being an- idle and disorderly person. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said that accused was in the Taumarunui district before coming to Christchurch in August. She had a very good record till she began taking drugs, first in the form of injections, and later as pills. She had recently undergone two operations in a hospital. She had a bad record of small thefts, all of which she confessed had been committed while under the influence of drugs. She had been brought before the court to protect her against herself. Mr Mosley -said he would give her two years in Pakatoa as an habitual inebriate to help her to get rid of the habit. CHILDREN'S COURT. (Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., Mrs T Green, J.P., and Mr W. M. West, J.PJ THEFT CHARGES. A small boy was charged with the theft at the Tepid Baths of ss, which Detective Thompson said had been taken from another cubicle and transferred to the one the boy was using. He was not allowed to go near the baths for the year. Another boy admitted breaking and entering a house, from which he took a penny and a brooch, valued at 2s. Mr Lawry said that previous warnings had apparently been of no avail. His record -showed that he was used to keeping lute hours. He had fallen to the depths of stealing from his own mother and spending the proceeds on cigarettes. He was committed to the care of the State, with a recommendation that he should be sent to a training farm. A box. aged nine years, admitted going to a shop in Manchester street which he broke and entered, taking £1 las in cash from it. Mr Lawry said tnnt the Child Welfare Officer woud "act as his uncle" for 12 months. Five thefts were admitted by two young boys, aged 11 and eight years. It was stated that the elder took the blame for the trouble and that the offences occurred on four different days. The elder boy was placed under supervision for three years and the younger for two years. The total of the thefts amounted to £2 17s 6d, which the mother undertook to restore at the rate of 7s tid a week.