COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 August 1926, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

CONVICTED OF SERIOUS CHARGE

(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. IF At the Supreme Court. Sydney Wallace Hardie, .aged 20, was found guilty of attempted carnal loimvled-ge of a j child aged nine, of indecent assault, f and knowingly communicating venereal disease. Sentence was deferred. SUPREME COURT AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Aug. 11, At the Magistrate's Court, Justice Stringer sentenced' Raynjond Francis Woodley Grigg for receiving stolen goods to three years’ reformative treatment.

Later, before Mr Justice Herdman, the same prisoner, on a. charge of being found in possession.• of counterfeiting ntfoul-ds, was remanded until a case was stated to the Court of Appeal ini regard to. admissibility of letters of the accused to his wife. Nancy Ca.lder, for unlawful use of an instrument on herself, was given 12 months’ probation. Raymond Pereira! Rouse, for breaking, entering ami theft, was ordered two years’ probation. David' ‘William Cutler Cooper, for breaking, entering, theft -and forgery, was .sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Da.vid Se-fton, on ten. charges of theft of funds of the Onehunga Borough Council, was given ten years’ reformative treatment. William John Marriott, for theft, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. George Edward Cos, for theft of a horse, was sent for six m'onths to the Borstal Institute. Arthur Henry Sherwood, on two breaches of the Bankruotrv Act, was gryen three months’ hard labour. BREACHES OH LICENSING ACT. HASTINGS, Aug. 11. At the Magistrate’s Court this- morning, James Frederick Lesueur, licensee of the Albert Hotel, pleaded guilty to charges of permitting gambling on the premises, opening for the sale of liquor during prohibited hours, and selling liquor during prohibited hours. At the request of the police the second charge was withdrawn

The Magistrate. Mr. Dyer, fined the defendant £lO and costs for permitting gambling, and £lO and costs for seliiiip- liquor after hours.

In connection with the same case, Emanuel Mendelsohn, Thomas Timmins South, Charles Henry Slater, Edward Ware', and Frederick Slater were fined £5 on a charge of aiding and abetting ■IT F. I, esc tier in allowing gambling on the premises. A PICKPOCKET FINED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 11. A pocket-picking episode in the Basin Reserve, Wellington, in the course of a. match on Saturday resulted in a. charge of assault against Thomas Harrison alias John O’Byrne alias Heffernnn, aged 33. A detective gave evidence of arresting the accused at the Winter Show on a charge of pocket-picking. The complainant gave evidence of identifying the accused from among other men at the police station. The money taken from him was a £5 note and three single notes. The accused was fined £3, in default seven days’ i m p r 1 s o r. inent.,^