MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1196, 3 August 1911, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) • WAREHOUSE CASE, A STORY OF .REPENTANCE. Charles Searlo came up for sentence on charges of receiving from Allen Lee, on or about April 4, one case of Van Houten's cocoa, valued at £7 10?., tho property of W. ami G. Turnbull and Co.; and, on or about July 3, one caddy of tobacco, valued at =£5 15s. Detective Broberg said that Searle had 'been in collusion with Lcc (the storeman at Turnbull's). He had paid Lee £4 7s. for the cocoa, and hod got £7 10s. for it from a grocer. He had got the box of tobacco for half value, and had sold it for j list under its ordinary value. There was absolutely no excuse for his dishonesty. He was a man with a considerable sum of mdney in the bank, and had a great deal of business ability. Mr. A. Blair appeared for Searle, and asked that his client should be either admitted to probation or punished by fine. Searle had not previously lapsed from the path of honesty, and he had gone out of his way to give himself up when he heard he was "wanted." This seenrod-to show that he hod Tepentcd.

Detective Broberg said that he did not think that there was much in the story about repentance. Searle had called at the police statioii to inquire what the police wanted him for, and had been surprised to find that there was a warrant out for his arrest.

His Worship fined Searle £20 on the first charge, and £10 on tho second, and also ordered him to pay £13.,55:; by way of restitution. The • alternatives fixed were two months' \ imprisonment' in the first case, and-one month's imprisonment in the second case. WERE .THEY FALSE TELEGRAMS? Kenneth Douglas Melville Calders was chareed with that, on July 31, at Wellington, 'ho sent false telegrams to John Donald Wellford M'Beth, of Wanganui, purporting that they were sent by S. Burnett. There were two charges. Detective Broberg asked for a remand. Calders, he said, was a clerk who had been out of work for some time. The application for the remand was granted, and bail was fixed in two sureties of £20 each. , INEBRIATION. Five first offending inebriates appeared. Three men were all fined 55., in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A woman was convicted and discharged, and a man was similarly dealt with. A HORSE DEAL. (Before Dr.. M'Arthur, S.M.) Charles W. Bayliss, carrier, Wadestown, sued William Hargreaves, expressman, Khandallah, for £5 155., the purchase price of a horse. Mr P. W. Jackson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. T. S. Weston for the defendant. • Defendant, who had bought the horse at auction, had refused to take delivery of it, contending that its quality had been misrepresented to him. ■ Judgment was given for the defendant, with costs £3 os.