MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23299, 8 April 1941, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY 'HU (Before Mr E. C. Lewev, THEFT ADMITTED Richard John Ledsham, a aged 31 (Mr A. S. Clark), ploSSfl guilty to a charge that, being vant of the Tawera County ChinKnaß he stole £260 4s, the property oMyaH council, between August, 1940,March, 1941. He was committed toSH Supreme Court for sentence. Mr*PaH S. Wilding watched the case council. ImU R.. M. D. Johnson, chairman of-i*gH council, said that Ledsham was*«pH ployed as a grader-driver at wages, and as a part-time paid £l5O a year. He was to collect money for the Icjwi Si pay it into the Bank of Nfeajl fealablH and had no authority to usflS y oFi(U J. M. Hamilton, Government AudifH Inspector, described ‘ finding the d£|H ficiency, and said that when que&H tipned, Ledsham admitted that he taken the money; accused had frank and helpful. 1U Detective M. R. Stewart statement he had taken from LwtM sham, who said that his wife had unwell, and he had been drinking. JEM had only taken cash, and all cheaUt»U had been sent to the bank. hIU To Mr Clark, the detective said thlrff he understood Ledsham ,to have bfiM the “popular secretary and horse” in organisations in the dirtriMM Ledsham was admitted to bail on ttiffiW same terms as before, in his own cognisance of £SOO, with a surety £SOO. '*■ COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Janies William Nicholls, a farm.MM bourer, aged 19, was charged with decent assault on a female childrjJU Hawarden. After evidence had be«|H taken, he was committed to the preme Court for sentence. On the plication of Mr D. W. Russell, bail mill granted in the accused’s recognisaiufiß of £25, with a surety of £25. iffJM SENT TO BORSTAL Mill Patricia Mary Treacy, a typist,' 23, was sentenced to two years Borstal institution when theft. She was charged with the theftral at Christchurch of, gold sleeve link|"sl worth £ls, owned by Leslie Readj<« :: j| razor worth £6, owned by Eric Man- ,|| der, a fur cape worth £45 owned tar 'H Ada Jamieson, bed linen worth £2 ftim 6d, owned by Licensed Freeholds'll Ltd.; at Wellington, the theft of t s l necklet worth £3O, the property of-Ji Anita Mary Hazlett, a, bath mat worth ?1 17s 6d, the property of the Hotel St ,i George and a costume worth £3, the J property of James Smith, Ltd. - <s■ Detective-Sergeant J. McClung ‘ said * the accused was on probation at-pit- ‘-M sent, apd had been consorting with**,?! man who had himself been to gaol'd They had stayed at a city hotel under -9 an assumed name. All but £2O worth 'd of the goods had been returned. -■ r 'm Mr T. A. Gresson said that Treacy d formed a disastrous association with a il married man much older than. herself m and was Infatuated with him. Her d first Jail from, grace was , when, she d forged a form to help him get .a job, -9 and subsequently she had in.!■ order to be able to go on living with M him. The man had now admitted that m he was indirectly responsible for herd trouble. , . .. .. . The Magistrate said that the, best d thing would be to send-her to Borstal for two years. '9 TO LEAVE TOWN ■ Thomas Henry Clarkson was eonvicted of being unlawfully on. the en- M closed premises of the Gloucester* Hotel. , . “I am tired of seeing you here, tndjfl trying to help you by Jetting you-gOjU said the Magistrate.. “Ycki will be««U ered to come up for' called on within five years, prohibition order for each' the condition that you Christchurch. Now go away, 3Way LICE-INFECTED SHEB^. Robert Day Robinson ;(M& Mggjlß Bales) was fined 20s for exposih&»||* infected sheep for sale. , PAYMENT OF Thomas William Henry case had been stood aside fto whether he could make peered for, sentence forsteaUng.* JfHjja ana "was ordered to repay - Stanley' Arthur Thomas was chtrjgia with breaking the terms of his reW|M on probation. Mr W. H. Darby JfWja batioh Officer) said Thomas hagU made full restitution as he. had ordered to by the Court victed of false pretences, and..iM»|a than £9 was owing. ..ThomasJjnNM to make the Probation Officer, agent to collect his war pension the restitution was made, and- theißWj* was adjourned sine die, on this standing, i (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.Mj ;■ M MAINTENANCE CASES . m Felix John West was sentenced four months’ imprisonment for d* M faulting to the extent of £75 3s an “ * payment of maintenance for his wue>,|| the warrant to be suspended wWe be |l pays 10s a week off arrears, as weu,« JJ tI A separationjfrder was made 1 William Henry Edward .Johnson, | maintenance for his wife being, j9 at 30s a week_ 1