COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 August 1926, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

BOOKMAKER!’S SUBSTANTIAL FINK. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 17. At the Police Court, Walter Henry Thurlow was fined £IOO for bookmaking. The accused was fined £75 for a similar offence in 1922. He had been rabbiting but had lost his block and had come to town. He. admitted that he had been bc-okmaking for the last thvee months. DETAINED FOR. REFORMATIVE TREATMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 16. Two motor-ears were arniong the articles, listed in nine charges of theft to which Leslie John Edyvean, aged 19, pleaded guilty in the- lower court. He came up - for sen-tencei at the Supreme Court this morning before Air Justice Adams, and was ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for a period not exceeding five years. Edyvean, when arrested; in Invercargill, was in possession of a sheath knife and revolvers. The judge agreed with the- Crown Prosecutor that th© accused was not normal. POSED AS A POLICE OFFICER. AUCKLAND. Aug. 17. At tlm Police Court, Enoka, Huia Toroa pleaded: guilty to. having incurred a debt of £35 by falsely representing himself as a police- officer andto- assault on Thomas Gallagher. The accused was driven 66 miles in- 6r,hours, during which lie arrested a motorist. On. the charge- of - posing as a police officer he was fined £SO, or in default three months’ imprisonment; for incurring the- debt by fraud he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the -sentence to be concurrent-; while for assault he was -sentenced to one months’ imprisonment, sentence to be cumulative.