MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 14

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

N MONDAY (Before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M.) DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR ’, James Thomas Lorraine VMcParlane pleaded not guilty to a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner while drurjk in Cathedral square. ” i J . The accused stated that another person 'had taken a, parcel which he had placed on the ground. He was convicted and ordered to • pay taxi hire and witness’s expenses. : THEFT OP CHEQUE Michael 'William Cosgrove was admitted to probation for two years on a conviction for Stealing a 'chequer, for ,£,12" the * property of Hugh . Mc- . Lachlan. '(He 'was ordered to make restitution of the amount involved. Detective-Sergeant T. Holmes said that-, the money had .been stolen from the employer of. the accused, a sharebroker in Invercargill. [Mr C.„E- Purchase, for the accused, 'said that'the cheque had been in 1 an 1 envelope addressed to the accused himself. His employer had retained him till a fortnight' ago, for some time ..after* the cheque ,had.been taken, although knowing of'ther'theft. >' Mr Purchase added that the accused had been completely respectable up till ' flye years ago, and suggested that the case, was one for- medical observation. ’ % REMANDED- TO APPEAR' AT‘ M “ DUNEDIN 'Gordon McDonald Mcßae was re- , manded to appear at..Dunedin ,-on August "11 on a charge of breaking and entering the warehouse' ✓of .Edward • Kenneliy and Company^Dunedin, and ’ stealing rabbitskins valued att £279 Ss 4d,‘ the property of, the firm.. / 'lu REMANDED ON'BAIL ’’ ' ' Rae Percy (Mr C. Ei .Purchase) was remanded till August 16 on a charge,of obtaining, with intent toy defraud, £.87.6? 6d mom the em/plqyment division’of the Labour Department by making'false, declarations' between May 21,^1934, ! -and-November 2811.1936. Bail was.",allowed iii the sum . of;£100 and one' Surety "of £IOO. .