MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court to deal with criminal business was a brief one.

Thomas Francis Peak, charged with being a rogue and vagabond, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully on premises by night, and was convicted and ordered to come iip for.sentence when called upon. ■

William Wilson was charged with the theft of a hurricane lamp, the property of the City Council. Accused said he was in difficulty with three horses and took tho lamp, intending to return it the following day. He was afraid his own lamp would not last him home. The police evidence was that a number of these lamps was disappearing. Accused extinguished the lamp and put it in his cart. A conviction and a fine of £5 were entered.

Kemp Rupuhu, alias George Robert Kemp, a Maori, aged 24, pleaded guilty to theft of a rug, the property of Robert Bo.thamly, a pair of boots at Petone, the property of Robert Hannah, and a. rug, the property of K. J. Dic'sbury, the-total value being £7 16s 6d. Chief-Detective Kemp stated this was accused's third offence of theft ■ from doorways. Accused was sentenced to reformative detention for a - period not exceeding a year.