MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Mr. E.- Page, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of. the .Magistrate's Court. James Fleming, an engineer, aged, 24 pleaded guilty to the theft of a steel guitar and case, valued at £5 ss, the property of Leonard Tickle, and to.stealing a stnng of pearls, a lady's dross, and a safety razor, valued at £5 3s 6d, the proPerty of Doris Barlow. Chief-Detective Ward said that Fleming had stolen the articles from a boarding-house in Wellington and had been arrested on the Lyttelton ferry steamer. The accused was remanded for sentence to Friday morning, pending the report' of the Probation Officer. One first offendefc for drunkenness was fined 10a, the amount of his bail, and two others were convicted and discharged.' At present undergoing a sentence of twenty-one days' imprisonment for theft, John Walter Hamilton (45) admit* d stealing an overcoat, valued at £2, the property of Charles Savill. The Chief-Detec-tive stated that Hamilton had a long list of previous convictions. He wag sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Joe lopia (24), a labourer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting Thomas Henry Fern..
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 11
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191MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 11
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