IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 6

IN THE COURTS

GRABBED ATTACHE CASE AND

RAN

SIX MONTHS’ GAOL

(Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Feb. 13. Boe Griffiths, who in Auckland on Saturday was found not guilty on a charge of pocket picking at ’■'■vouport, but convicted ou an alternative count of iltomuting i J do and placed ou probation, war to-day sen tenced to -ix months’ uiiin jsoiu..rrt oil a charge of stealing, an attache case and no.my, wide l he grabbed from a visitor to the city. who Clawed and caught him. Griffiths oscap ed. hut a pollicuian completed Ins capture, jne offence occurred t.-'i’r midnight on Saturday. <r COOK STEALS CHEQUE. f Press Association AY ELLINGTON. Feb. 13. Finlay Buchanan. 32, a cook, pleaded guilty to-day to the thelt of a cheque for £22, the property ot p.i trick Row-. The cheque had been posted to the Bier Hotel, Wellington. from i lie office ot Thomas Cook and Son, London, :r d warn present,ev to the local office of that firm hv ac cased, who took the letter from the hotel rack. Mr Salmon, S.M., imposed a sentence of three months gaol. PRISONERS FUR SENTENCE. (Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Feb. 13. Prisoners sentenced in the Supreme Court- to-day included Charles James AYithey, lor committ.ng mischief by breaking windows, and tor the theft of a case of gin, admitted to three years’ probation, a prohibition ordei aiso being issued. GAOL FOR PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKETS. (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 13 Tvvt. professional pickpockets winai rived in November from Sydney, were sentenced in the Supreme Conn tins morning. Edward Lawson, 30. and George Wallace, 31, were found guilty last month of stealing £lo from Paul Aurish at Paekagariki. Lawson lmu .31 previous convictions, and Wallace 38. Both were sentenced to two years' hard labor. SUNDAY TRADING IN HOTELS. (Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Feb. 13. At Methven to-day Ernest Frederick Ward, licensee of the Methven Hotel, was fined £7 10s and 10s costs for Sunday trading. Patrick Kellaber, barman, was also fined £/ 10s. Both had previously been convietetd. Four men found on the premises of two hotels in the township were fined £1 and costs 10s.

NEARING AN ENI)

MORGAN-WRIGHT LITIGATION

COSTS AGAINST AIRS. ROBERTS

(Press Association.)

OHR;l STCHXTRCH, Fell. 13

The conclusion C-f the most recent phase of litigation in the now celebrated Aforgan-AVright case, in which the parties were certain of the henefi'varies und'r the will of the late Air. E. G. AVrighL, and the Bank o ’ New Zealand and other beneficiaries, the Bank of New Zealand sought the final judgment for costs against Elva Ethel Roberts, one only of the parties in the recent action, in which the decision of the Court was in favor of the Bank. A'lr. . F. AVright, for the Bank, suggested £3OO as the amount that should he allowed, which would be below the usual scale. His Honor allowed £l5O without witness’ expenses.