MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Today's ."sitting-' of the Magistrate's Court* was, presided over by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. Several first-offending inebriates "were dealt with in the usual way.".!,. For drunkenness, Jeremiah O'Reilly was fined 10s, with the alternative of serving 48 hours' imprisonment.
A young woman named Minnie Fene-mo-re pleaded guilty to a charge of committing theft at Taihape of a gold ring valued at £20, .the property •of Mrs. Boyd. During 'the early part of ths month, stated Chief-Detective Boddam, the accused was employed by Mrs. Boyd as a : domestic. .She relinquished that position, and after she had left the ring was missed. The ring was eventually traced to a second-hand dealer, to whom the accused had sold the article for 20s. This was the young woman's first lapse, and the Chief-Detective thought that she might be given a chance to redeem herself. The accused was convicted and discharged, on condition that she remains in the Salvation Army Homo for a period^of Bix-mojaths^ _._;.';; ; :
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 8
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164MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 8
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