MAGISTRATE’S COURT
THIEF SENT TO PRISON. Thirteen persons charged with insobriety appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr. J?. K. Hunt, S.M. Most of them ware first offenders. Thomas Troy, who was convicted for the third time for drunkenness, was fined 205., in default three days’ imprisonment. F. Baker was fined 205., with the option of three days’ imprisonment, and for committing a breach of his prohibition order he was fined a further 10s. Charles Herbert Shaw was fined 10s., in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, and for damaging the overcoat of the constable who arrested him ho was ordered to pay the amount of the damage, £5. Arthur Edward Pearcy, a young man with a police record, pleaded guilty to the theft of a suit of clothes value £l2, the property of Frederick W. Lesfield. The accused and the plaintiff shared a room in a boardinghouse, and on September 15 accused disappeared with the clothes. Ho told some of his friends that he was going to Nelson, but when Detective Revell came across him a few days later he was staying in a. boardinghouse in Boulcott Street, and was wearing the suit. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 8
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