MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police Court cases were dealt with today by Mr. E. Page, S.M: For disturbing Constable Robertson while in the execution of has duty, William Hilton Politz was fined £3 or fourteen days' imprisonment. ' Richard Graddy and .Arthur Hopper were each fined £1 for casting offensive matter in Swan lane. On charges of drunkenness they were each convicted and discharged. ' -_v" Timothy Donovan, a laJbourer, aged 36, was fined 10s, in default florty-eight hours' imprisonment, for his eocond offence of drunkenness. A remand until 24th ITeUruary was granted in the case of Edward Ryan, a fireman, aged .40, who was charged with stealing goods valued at £0 3s 3d, the property of Smith and Smith, Ltd. Bail was renewed. . .'A, further remand unrti] 24th February was granted in the case of George Frederick Hall, ,a traveller, aged 32; William John Newman, a plasterer, aged 52- and James Burch, a labourer, aged 49, who were charged with breaking and entering the house of Thomas H. Hill at 105, Grant road, and; stealing goods valued at £10 10s 4d. .'.'■;■■''. : .•'-.- ".-■'■ Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing £3 m money, the property of William Andrew Officer, Edgar Love, aged 21, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment Detective-Sergeant Kcvell said that the accused had been employed by the complainant, who was a farmer at Inglewood. On 7th January the complainant and bis wife left l»ome. When .they returned they found that the accused had gone and that £3 was missing from some clothing left in-the house. On 13th February the accused was located here by Detectives Smith and Ritchie, and admitted that he had taken the''money. He said he had been working for very low wages, had got tired of it, and cleared out In sentencing the accused, the Magistrate remarked that Love had seven previous convictions for theft in 1927 and two more in 1930. .