MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 21, 25 July 1927, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases in the Magistrate'• Court to-day were dealt ■with by Mr. E. Page, S.M.

Failure to account to the C. O. Products, Ltd., for sums of money totalling £3 6s 9d was admitted by Samuel Vogal Mason, a canvasser, aged 51. Chief-Detective Ward said that last June the company gave Mason an opportunity to repay £17 that he had misappropriated, but since then he had stolen further sums. He had a conviction in 1918 for sly-grog selling, and in 1919 for thdft. A sentence of two months' imprisonment was imposed.

Herbert Stewart, a plasterer's labourer, aged 36, who is charged with the theft of a pair of shoes worth £1 10s, was remanded to appear next Monday. Chief-Detective Ward stated that other charges were pending, the articles involved having been taken from dance-halls. On the application of Mr. A. J. Mazengarb, bail of £25 and in surety of £25 was allowed.

A charge of having stolen tools worth &1 2s 6d belonging to Andrew Alexander M'lndoe was preferred against Laurie Davis, alias Davies, a. carpenter, aged 32. He was remanded to appear at Jferton on Friday. For his second offence of drunkenness, Edward Eogers, a hawier, aged 45, who spent the night in the cell, was convicted and discharged.. .Two first offenders, one of them a woman, were each fined 10s, the amount of their bail.

Donald William Cameron was arrested by the Lower Hutt police on Saturday evening, and was charged this morning, before Messrs. G. A. Chapman and S. Clendon, J.P.s, with being drunk and using obscene language. On the first charge he was fined 10s, and on the second £3, with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment.