MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES. Messrs. I. Salek and D. IT. Edgar, J.P.’s, wore on the Bench in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Four first offenders were each fined 10s. for drunkenness. Martin Fountain Barber, aged 20, pleaded guilty to stealing £5, the property of Hila Bennett. Evidence was given that accused took the money from a suitcase belonging to a room mate. He was fined £2, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, and ordered to make restitution of the amount taken, at the rate of £1 per week. James Mulcahy, aged 52, was charged with using obscene language and with assaulting a police .constable. He was lined £5 on the first charge and £2 on the second, the money to be paid forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment.

Henry Joseph Wilson, a Maori labourer, aged 29. was charged with the theft of about £7, the property of Johanna Obcn. and remanded to appear cn January 12. George Frederick Simpson, aged 30, pleaded guilty to attempted theft, evidence being given that he was found trying to open the till in a cake shop in Cambridge Terrace. Accused was lined £2. John Mitchell Porter, a labourer, was charged with the theft of a eake valued at 12s. (id., the property of Mary Francis. Accused pleaded that he was drunk at the time, but evidence was given that he appeared to be sober when seen leaving premises in Cambridge Terrace with the cake hidden under his overcoat. He was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment.