COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 November 1926, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING. ‘(BY TELEGBAPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 2. John William Keand, a young man, was charged at the court to-day with breaking and entering the house of Chinese .gardeners at R.iccarton and stealing £1 17s 6d in money. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. LIQUOR DISCOVERED. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 2. As the result of complaints received by the police, the premises of a Chinaman in business as a merchant were searched to-day under warrant. A large number of bottles of liquor were discovered and a court action is pending. SENT BACK TO THE ISLAND. AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. Described, as a victim of drugs, Charles Marshall Fyfe, aged 46, who arrived from Sydney in custody today, pleaded guilty in the Police Court this afternoon to a charge of escaping from the Rotoroa Island reformatory institution on February 25. The accused had been deported from New South Wales. Chief-Detective Cummings said Fyfe escaped from the. island on February 25. He had been committed for a term of two years and managed to get away to Sydney. The chief-detective suggested that as accused’s term had not yet expired, he should be sent back to the island. The magistrate, Mr. E. C. Cutten, made an order for the accused to return to the island. CHARGER AGAINST MOTOR BUS DRIVERS. AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. Two motor bus drivers, George Courtney Bacon and Harold Bruce Hill, were tried in the Supreme Court to-day on charges of negligently driving vehicles in such a manner as to cause death. Bacon, the charge against whom referred to a fatality at ( Avondale last July, was found guilty, sentence being deferred. Hill, whose charge related to a collision in Manukau Road, as the result of which a young cyclist received fatal injuries, was found not guilty. The jury added a rider expressing the opinion that all motor buses should be provided with windscreen wipers.