IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10563, 17 April 1928, Page 3

IN THE COURTS

BRINGING FIREARMS INTO N.Z. VAUDEVILLE ARTIST FINED. ! (Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Nat Hanley, a music-hall comedian, charged with presenting a revolver! at another man, pleaded not gui.ty. Hanley was fined 60s for bringing a firearm into New Zealand and tho more serious charge was dismissed. It was stated that after a drinking party in a hotel, and during a row over money, Hanley fired a blank cartridge at the floor to. frighten the other men.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. WHAKATANE OFFENDERS PUNISHED (l’rcßs Association. AUCKLAND, April 16. Before the Supreme Court. AVilliam Charles Chapman, 50, committed from To Kuiti on a -charge of incest, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. Charles Barclay Dewar, 63, committed from 4Vhakatano on a charge of breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor, to be followed by two years’ reformative detention. His youthful accomplice, James AVilliam S'liaw, pleaded guilty, and Alexander Lawson Andrew, 60, to receiving £6 knowing it to have been stolen. Botli were admitted to probation for two years. DRUNKEN MOTOLUCYCLIST FINED. (Press AHSooiatlon.WELLINGTON. April 16. Carl William Hendrickson, 22, a civil servant, was fined £lo' and Ins license cancelled for six months ior being drunk while in charge of a motor cycle. POLICE RAID ON CLUB. LABORER IN TROUBLE. fpress Association. j AVELLINGTON, April 16. As an echo of the recent police raid on the Premier Club, George Fisher a laborer, pleaded guilty to-day to having been found in a common gaming house and •obtaining £6 by means of a valueless cheque It was stated tlmt the accused had presented the cheque to a restaurant proprietor, who subsequently managed to get £4 back. On the first charge lie was fined £2 and on the second was admitted to probation for 12 mouths, on conditior that he refunded the balance of the money. MAORI YOUTH TN GIRL’S APPAREL

SIX MONTHS FOR VAGRANCY cPress Association.) AVELLINGTON. April 10. The 19-year-old Maori youth who was arrested last week while wearing women’s apparel got six months’ imorisonment to-day on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond. On each of three charges of theft he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months

RESISTING AND OBSTRUCTING CONSTABLE. ARRESTED MAN AND SYMPATHISER, SENT TO GAOL. 'Press Association.* WELLINGTON, April 16. AA’hile Constable Honeylv’ne wa c taking James' AValsh. 41, to Mt. Cbok poliee station on Saturday evening or a charge of obscene language, a crowd gathered and the was obstructed bv several men. AValsh also resisted violently. He was to-dav fined £2 for using obscene language; convicted and ordered to make good the damage to the noliceman’s tunic. £3 15s. and, on a charge of resisting, sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. La wren co Peiterson, 24, and Robert Burg-ess, 49, each got one month’s gaol for obstructing the constable.

ALLEGED THEFTS BY ROAD BOARD OFFICIALS. (PreEf ABBOci3tiou.3 AUCKLAND. April 15. Herbert Frederick Thomas Goodman, clerk of the Taniaki West Rear* Board, and Roy Herbert Fraser Arrdll, assistant clerk, were charged in the Police Court this afternoon with stealing £250 and £2‘39 respectively. the property of the Board. Chief' Detective Hammond, in Arroll’s case, asked for a remand to April 23. He said the total defalcations as far as the accused was concerned, was the amount stated m the - charge. In Goodman's case the total was £B4O. Arroll was remanded to April 23 on £3OO bail, and a surety of £3OO, Goodman was remanded until to-morrow on one surety of £SOO.