MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 8, 5 October 1926, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with _ the police cases in the Magistrate’s Court 1 e Angus 7 Black, alias Smith (aged 50), was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on She charge of stealing a pair of boots valued at -£1 10s„ the property of lone \ Vuong. Accused who admitted a long list of previous convictions,- was said by Sub-Inspector Harvey, to have been twice declared an habitual criminal. William Orsby Fisher, a fitter (nged 53), was fined £2 in default seven days imprisonment for using obscene language. and similarly treated for a breach of his prohibition order. He was fined 16s. for an offence of drunkenness. Horace Samuel Mahony, n ships earpenter (ajred 24). who admitted stealing 20 fur skins valued at <£3. the property of the Shaw, Savill, anti Albion Co. Ltd., was remanded until this morning for sentence. . A remand until October 11. was pranrcd in the case of Robert Forbes Boicl. alias Goodman, alias Cameron, alias Carr, a farm manager (aged .33), who appeared on the charge of gaining, bv means of a valueless cheque for AU) iGs.. drawn on the Bank of New Zoa’•'nd. at Masterton. goods for that amount from George and Doughty Ltd.,

■r th intent to defraud. , Tao* Ritchen. a Maori labourer fowl 17). who was said by Sub-Inspector Har- ' r*v to have escaped from the Wera roa Training Farm, was remanded until this morning on the charge of being found bv night without lawful excuse, hut in circumstances not disclosing the intent n? any other crime, in a shed on the Fipitea Wharf on Sunday night.