MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 228, 23 June 1936, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Jail For Man Who Stole From Parked Car

Cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday were dealt with by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., Senior-Sergeant J. Dempsey conducting the prosecutions. Robert William Mclntyre, labourer, was fined 10/-. in default three days’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. For using indecent language be was fined £l, in default seven days' imprisonment. The language was used in an argument. Mclntyre had been before the court many times previously.

John Edward Byrne wm sentenced to two months' imprisonment for drunkenness, He had been previously convicted four times within the last six months. For using obscene language on a tramcar, Owen Casey was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment. The language was used to the conductor, Casey being under the influence of liquor. No time was allowed in which to pay the fine. On June 18, Joseph Sutherland, alias John Burring, and another man were observed looking into motor-ears parked in the street. One of the men was seen to take, a bundle from a car. Both, when challenged, made off and later separated. One man was seen to throw the bundle he was carrying on to a lorry in a section, and then run away. Later Sutherland was arrested and charged with stealing an overcoat,-one scarf, and a felt hat, of a total value of £2, the property of Arthur Gilliver. It was stated that this was the twenty-first occasion on which he had been before the court. He pleaded guilty, but said he never took the articles. He was merely with the man who did. “I suppose I am as guilty as what he is,’’ he added. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Kathleen Mary Hennessey, for obtaining credit by fraud from n taxi-driver, was fined 5/- and costs and ordered to pay the tare, 1/6. and witnesses' expenses. Her story that she had asked the taxi-driver to wait a day for the fare was denied by him.