IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12254, 9 April 1935, Page 7

IN THE COURTS

PURCHASE OF COINS I ONES ON JEWELLER TOTAL £45 (Press Association.) WANGANUI, April 8. , t | ie Police Court this morning, judgment was given by Mr f £ H salmon, SAL, on five charges ■ ins t Huia Muir; a jeweller, o,f 9g cliasing coins, not being a. holder Pf Accuse under the Pawnbrokers’ of jiie was fined £2O and roste l6s for P urchasin S 19 gold •eces from a; half-sovereign to £5 L» Reginald Doran, and a similar L for unlawfully purchasing 15 in contravention of the Military- Act. He was fined J an( l costs for carrying on the Kusiiross of a second-hand dealer, without a license. One case was dis■fflissdl and costs, 16s, were given in pnother. ALLEGED aggravated assault fe’FVNT INJUREDi IN FAMILY ' ‘ QUARREL ;Presi Associati<«*u BLENHEIM, April S. According, to police statements in tho coart. ' this 'm or nifty. James Jlacklc -of Spring Crock,' during a parrel with his wife yesterday after c oot, aimed a blow at her with a HHet of wood. The wife ducked l and the wood 1 slnu-k their. 15 months old daughter on the beadylnchle was charged with aggravated assault and remanded until April 13. It is understood that the child’s injuries are not. serious. ALLEGED BETTING in HOTEL. CHARGE AGAINST' BARMAID. FORMER CUSTOMER JOINED POLICE FORCE. (Pres# Asjodai)on? CHRISTCHURCH, April. 8 Before the magistrate, Air E. D. Mosley, Helen Gunn, a barmaid, was charged .with using the private bar of’TfhttersaH’s Hotel as a common • jamnrg'house. Thomas Ebenezer Robinson, the licensee, was charged with permitting the bar .to be So used. The police said that n>s a result, of complaints, two constables in plain clothes paid several-visits to the bar and placed in all about 29 bets with Gunn. Some of the horse? won, and »he dividends were received from Gunn ®!jq ha c | been previously warned concerning hotting m the bar. Constable KiGalea,. one of those who made bets said he was sworn in as a member of the force ,on March 9 and said l he had been going to the hotel on this ease for some time before he was a constable. He was fairly well known in this hotel. He denied‘teliing Gunn that, lie was a member of the Athletic Football Club and that he wUr.ld bring other members to the bar Smer football. Mr r.ning, counsel for Gunn : If you were not a member of the police fwS£h don’t, you think it is a particu'lSSvlv mean net. in placing the bets you did? The chief detective: That is riot fair to the witness. He is a member of the force and was only carrying Out instructions. To counsel, the chief detective said: If you want to make any charges of int'airne.ss you should go higher up. (Proceeding.)