MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases in the Magistrate's <3o»i;*l

The theft of a suit of clothes, a ehitkk ™-i,-a COJ! ar ' worth £G > the Property ofl William Thomas Matthew Bliss,'was adfl nutted by Albert Henry O'Malley, a lab3> ourer, aged 32. Chief-Detective Ward B tat* ed that the clothes had been stolen front? Uliss last month, when the two men werir workmates and were enmping together? near Lower Hutt. The articles had beeai recovered, but had been worn, and wera"s now of no use to their owner. O'Maller ' when arrested had £8 12s 7d in his pos^ session. The Magistrate imposed a fintf I £L a"[ l alsc' ordei-ed the accused fa? pay £6,.the value of the stolen clothing,:

1,-,t£, • n,- ? S Brnnt. ed l"° years' probation in 1920 for receiving stolen goods,'' but for the last three months he hw't on Officer (Mr. T. P. Mills) of JanW ?.HlFv' f" I 60"10"' rT* 49) who Pleaded? g ilty to having faded to comply with? the terms of h,s probationary licensed His trouble" continued Mr. Mills, "in the cause of his downfall i v the firstf place. In imposing a fine of £5, in de-' fault fourteen days' imprisonment tha Magistrate tod Burch that he was liablo cc£ cc months m gaol or a fine of £10 ' Other charges are pending," said tha Chief Detective m asking that Georga Charles Hugh \oimg, a jockey, aoed 25 who is charged with the theft of a hat worth £1 15s, be remanded to appear,: at i\ew Plymouth next Friday. The re*' mand was granted. One first offender for drunkenness wag fined js, and another, who speut the niglifc in the cells, was convicted and discharged.; 1 olice and summons cases were dealt with by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. For assaulting Bernard Holden, Hugh) Mauley (35), who pleaded that he was' drunk at the time,, was fined £4, in, default twenty-one days' imprisonment, A further remand to Wednesday nexti was granted in the case of Thomas' James Davenport (39), who was chaWed with vagrancy. Henry Ansticc, who admitted having, failed to apply for a renewal of the' registration of his pea rifle when ho' changed his address, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. He was similarly;! punished for permitting an uiiauthor- 1 ised person to use the gun. Found illegally on licensed premise^ James Crawford was fined £1.