COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 July 1926, Page 8

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

A WARDER ASSAULTED

(BY TMUSGRAI’H —rBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, July 29. At the Police Court, Paul Kokich, aged 37, was charged with 'assault on a, gaol warder named Foy, while the latter was walking quietly on the road. Counsel for the defendant said that accused imagined that circumstances had arisen to justify bus assault. He now admitted it was unprovoked. Accused wlas: sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

METER READER’S THEFT,

WELLINGTON. July 30. John Arthur Carmack, for theft of £l6l while employed as a meterreader for the corporation, was sentenced' by Hon. C. P. Skerretb, Chief Justice, to reformatory detention tor a period not exceeding .two years.

COSTLY MUSTARD POT.

WELLINGTON, July 30. For stealing a, mustard pot valued at one shilling from McDuff’s, Ltd., William Boss (22) was convicted at the Magistrate’s Court and was fined £5.

CASES AT NAPIER

NAPIEII, July 30. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Florence Humphries (33) pleaded guilty to permitting the, use of a certain instrument on herself, and- was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed, the accused to report to the police twice weekly. Mary Ann Wes toby, married, was’ then charged with committing the above offence. She pleaded not g-uilty. The case is proceeding.

BREACHES OF LICENSING ACT

TAUMARUNUI, July 29. John Ure, a- railway porter at Qk-a-hu-kura, on a charge of keeping liquor for sale, was fiitfd £SO at the Magistrate’s Court bv Mr. Orr Walker, S.M. Wesley Qverend, charged l with selling liquor, was fined £25. COURTED ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE

AUCKLAND, July 30. John McNair was convicted and ordered to pay costs by Mr Boynton, S.M., on a. charge of assaulting Percy Robinson, the magistrate remarking that the ajeoused, who Was visiting Robin son’s wife after having been forbidden to do l so by her husband, deserved all lie got- A good hiding would do him more good than any penalty. Robinson stated that he was supposed to be in Helensville .last night, but suspected that the accused would be with Mrs Robin son, and on returning found his anticipation was correct. He stated that McNair struck him, but he. hit hack and came off best. He sent for the police, and gave McNair in charge for assault.

The accused admitted- be, had 1 been keeping company with Robin,son’s wife for the past IS month.®.