MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., dealt with the following cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Leslie Brewer Wilson, a dentist’s assistant, aged 81, was remanded to appear, at Christchurch on January 11 on a charge of forging a form of declaration under the Dentists Amendment Act, 1921-22, by altering certain entries thereon with the intention that it should be used or acted upon as genuine . “I want you to understand that in being committed to Point Halswell you are receiving especially _ favourable treatment,” said the Magistrate to Gladys Constance Foreman, aged U, who was charged with escaping from the Point Halswell prison. It was stated that Foreman had been sentenced to two years’ reformation treatment on Tanuarv 11, 1927, and had escaped on May 25, 1927, for which she received an 'additional three months’ detention. Since her escape this time she has been living a “hand-to-mouth” existence in town. A further three months was added to her present term of two vears and three months. For stealing a saxophone and a clarionet, valued at £5O, the property of Clinton Carrington Buchanan, William Levene, a steward, aged 23, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. It was stated that accused offered them for pledge and received £6 for them. Sydnev Charles Leckie, who was charged' with being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient lawful means o? support; with breaking and entering the counting house of the Wellington Croquet Club; and with stealing an electric iron and cord valued at 355., was remanded to January Hjames Ward, alias James Edward Ward, aged 40, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge or using obscene language. He was com victed and discharged on a charge ot a fourth offence of drunkenness. Patrick Darcv, alias Dennis Toomey a slaughterman, was fined £3, in default fourteen davs’ imprisonment, for disorderly behaviour while drunk He was also fined £3, in default fourteen davs' imprisonment, for assaulting barman, and £l. in default seven days imprisonment, for refusing to quit licensed premises when ordered to d so bv the licensee. , Thomas James Campbell was remanded to appear on January 10 on tvio charges of false pretences involving sums totalling £B.