POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 5

POLICE COURT

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

(Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.)

idle and disorderly

Olivo May Waldren (Mr_ 0. J. L. White) was charged with being deemed to bo an idlo and disorderly person in that she had insufficient lawful means ol SU ffistable Milne said that ho had known the accused for the past seven years She had not worked tor the last six months, and to his knowledge she had no means of support. Constable Cooper said that rcccmty he had to put the accused out of a house in Maclaggan street. She was then half drunk. . . To Mr White: She lived in a house occupied hy ft man named Cooper, who was recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Mr White: But she doesn’t live there now. The Magistrate (dryly): Aor docs Cooper. , Sergeant M : Garthy, Constables Ward and MTherson gave similar evidence. The accused, in evidence, said she was a married woman, twenty-eight years of age. She had been sentenced to eigh--1 teen months’ reformative detention in 'April, 1924. She was released on Oc- . tober’ 12, 1925, having served her full sentence. She then came to Dunedin ' and worked in a boarding-house, and later on was employed by a dentist. Owing to the fact that the latter wont Lout of business she had found herself without work since Easter. She was at I present living with friends in South 1 Dunedin, and they told her that sho 1 could remain with them until she obtained work.

Mr White said that during the time the accused was at Point Halsweli she had given birth to twins. These had been committed to an industrial school, and proceedings were taken against hor yesterday for their support. ■After the caso she had been arrested on the present charge. Counsel said that he would leave it to the discretion of the magistrate whether accused’s friends should be called.

The Magistrate said he did not think they would be able to help matters very much. On accused’s own showing she had only done five weeks’ legitimate work for a considerable time. The accused was convicted and remanded until Thursday for a report from Ensign Coombs. WOMAN CONVICTED. Edith M'Morran, who had made two previous appearances in the court, was charged with the theft of a pigskin purse, valued at ss, and £1 15s in money, the property of Nellie Gwen Couchman. She was also charged wity having been found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, and with having procured liquor. A new charge was preferred this morning—that she had failed to comply with the terms of her release on probation, to which she pleaded guilty. The accused was remanded to appear at Christchurch on Thursday on the latter charge, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called ucon on the others. 1