MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases in the Magistrate's Court today, were dealt with by Mr. J. H. Salmon, o.M.

Two charges of the theft of carpenters' tools of a total value of £2 were admitted by beorge Edward Simpson, a seaman aged 30. Chief-Detective Ward stated that a number of tire tools had been taken while the accused was on a carpentering job, last month, and that the rest were found in his possession when the police called at his home. Simpson was before the Court last December, when he was convicted' of an attempted theft from a till. In asking for another chance for him,.Mr. W. E. Leicester said the accused had recently been married, and was just getting his home together. He made the application ■more for the sake of the wife than for that,of the accused, The Magistrate, in admitting Simpson to probation for twelve months, warned him that a further offence would result in his getting into serious trouble. '

. "These offences of desertion are becoming altogether too common. It is necessary to impose imprisonment in order to discourage others," observed the Magistrate, when George Bell, a fireman, aged oG, asked for leniency after pleading guilty to deserting from the steamer Mahana. A term of fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed. Charged with the theft of a registered letter containing £2 los in money and postal notes, a Government official, whose name, was ordered .to be suppressed in- the meantime, was remanded to appear on Wednesday week. Bail of £50 and One surety of £50 was allowed For his fourth offence of drunkenness and a breach of his prohibition order Joseph Johnston, alias James Smith alias Ivobmsoii, aged 47, was ordered to be sent to Koto Eoa for twelve months Her second offence of drunkenness cost Doris Watson, a domestic, aged 37 10s m default forty-eight hours' imprisonment! liiree nrst offenders were convicted and discharged.