COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 11

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

FORGERY AND THEFT ALLEGED. (BY TELEGBAT-H—PRESS ASSOCIATION.; GISBORNE, Dec. 15. At the Police Court, Eomana Carr, alias Peters, a bushfelling contractor, was committed for trial on a charge of forging the endorsement to a cheque and theft of £25 at Opotiki. CHARGES OF THEFT ADMITTED. PALMERSTON N., Dee. 15. At the Police Court, Michael Joseph O’Grady, a seaman (19), pleaded guilty to charges of theft of articles and money from the residences of J. B. Gaisford and W. J. Ellery, near Bulls. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The accused, in the witness box, admitted the offences and stated that he had been under the influence of liquor at the time.

UNAUTHORISED USE OF CARS. AUCKLAND, Dec. 14. For a second offence of conversion of a motor-car Frederick Nicholas Lindblow, aged 26, was sentenced by Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., to three mo nth si imprisonment. For unlawful conversion of a car at Blenheim, John Thomas Alexander Gibson, aged 37, was sentenced to one ..month’s imprisonment. The police stated that Gibson deserted his . wife and children at Blenheim and took a motor-car, which he drove l to Nelson, abandoning tue car there. Accused was ordered, to pay £1 10s a week towards the maintenance of bis wife and children, the first payment to be made in six weeks’ time. SENTENCES AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 15. In the Supreme Court, William Alfred Meagher and Jack Sydney Valentine Bott. two youths who were found guilty of various city burglaries, were sentenced. Bott to three years’ reformative treatment and Meagher to two years’ reformative treatment. Counsel said that one of the youths had been read in tr detective books to excess. Some were of the “Deadwood Dick” type. Rolland George Collins was sentenced to 18 months’ gaol f o r issuing false cheques. Francis Edward Diggle, for uttering a. false cheque, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. John Hamilton (43) a married man, for theft and forgery from the firm, hy which he was employed, was ordered reformative treatment for two years. Counsel said that the totalisator, on which the accused sometimes worked, was the cause of his downfall, it leading to gambling. POSED AS POT JOE OFFICIAL. AUCKLAND. Dec. 15. When released from prison recently. John Gibb Hastings, a young man with 20 convictions, followed a stranger into a house in Vincent Street and stated that he had a warrant for his arrest for beating another man for 255. ’The accused searched the rooms, and then mentioned, that the matter would be fixed up if he was given 255. The stranger doubted the claim of Hastings to the membership of. the force, and took steps leading to his arrest. This morning Hastings was fined £lO, or in default one month’s imprisonment on a charge of assuming designation of and acting as a detective. DROVE CAR WHILE INTOXICATED BLENH'ETM. Dec. 15. Thomn.s Renwick. a runholder. was charged this morning with driving a motor-car when intoxicated. He p’endetl guilty and was fined £lO. His present license was. suspended, and he was disqualfied from holding a license fori a further two years.