MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 136, 11 June 1928, Page 16

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Saturday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by JMr-'-Ji. Page, S.M. • On a charge of forging a wages' receipt tor i.3 13s Bd, Henry Stuart MaeDougall, a labourer, ager 28, was remanded to appear on 13th June. A second offender for drunkenness, David James Croinie, aged 40, was fined 10s, in default seven days' imprisonment. For casting offensive matter, he was fined £1, in detault seven days' imprisonment, and for wilfully damaging a cell utensil, valued at 12s Gd, he was convicted and ordered to make good the damage, in default seven^ days' imprisonment. ■ • ■ Charles Eric Pearson, an engineer, aged 30, pleaded guilty to a breach of his probationary license. The Probation Officer (Mr. T. P. Mills) said that Pearson ■was admitted to probation in Hastings for'the theft of £18, but would not report regularly. As far as he knew, Pearson's general conduct was satisfactory, and he suggested that an extension of his term of probation might meet the case. "But for the recommendation of the Probation Officer I would have imposed a term of imprisonment," said the Magistrate. Pearson was convicted and admitted to a further twelve months' probation. He was ordered* to repay the stolen money at the rate of 10s a week. A charge of theft of an underskirt and 10s in money was made against a nurse, aged 23. The accused did not appear, but her counsel (Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell) entered a plea of guilty Chief-Detective Ward said that the skirt and money were missed by a patient when she was discharged from hospital. The accused had been seen wearing the skirt, and when interviewed admitted taking it and the money from the patient's attache case. The accused had no previous convictions and full restitution had been made. Mr. Treadwell called evidence to show that the accused was on the verge of a serious breakdown at the time of the offence, and was not wholly responsible for her actions. The Magistrate ordered the accused to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, and an application for the suppression of her name was granted.