MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 13 November 1923, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Sir. E. Page-, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when two first offenders for drunkenness, who did not-appear, were ordered to forfeit the amounts of their bail, 10s in each case. Appearing for sentence on a charge of stealing Bs, the property of Emma Ada iolley, a sixteen-year-old boy named James Daniel Twomey was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the Magistrate intimating that he would recommend the defendant's transfer to Wereroa. . The probation officer in his report said that the accused was lazy and did not like work. He had on numerous occasions been ' assisted by Rev. Canon Taylor.

The hearing of a charge against Leslie Charles Thackwell of failing to provide tor his wife was adjourned for two weeks until a further charge against the accused has been dealt with A fireman named Patrick' Grant, who had stolen a portmanteau and contents, valued at £7, the property of William Hemy Rule, was remanded until Friday or sentence.. The accused had been identified as the man. sitting in the train ront which the bag was' missed, direc£ Iy opposite to the complainant. Some of the stolen property had later been urnon^ !?. eteC£ Ye Tricklebank among the accused s effects James Cain and John - 'Dalton who were arrested by Detective Triokl'eba k on a charge of stealing a-leather trunk