MAGISTRATE’S COURT
- T - POLICE CASES. Air. E. Page, S.M., presided in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. William Aveliug, alias Avery (aged 49), was fined All in default seven days’ imprisonment for a breach of his prohibition order. Ho was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. William Henry Cox, alias Smith, a labourer (aged 57), who admitted two charges >of breaking and entering the shop of David Davis at 120 Taranaki Street and stealing miscellaneous goods valued at .fill Bs. 6d. in.all, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. George Edward Welch, a carpenter (aged 26). pleaded guilty to being an incorrigible rogue, in that ho escaped from custody while in the Waikune prison camp nt Eona. Accused was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour, tho sentence to bo served at tho expiration of his original term, His Worship remarking that those who abused the many privileges allowed them in tho prison camps could not expect leniency from the Courts. Wo are asked to state that the T. J. Lethaby, against whom judgment was issued on Tuesday last, is in no way connected with Lethaby's, 8 Featherston Street, Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 13
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189MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 13
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