COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 January 1927, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

THEFT OF MONEY ADMITTED

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 24.

Two charge® of breaking, entering and theft were admitted by William Gibson Young and Leonard David Williams, both young men ,in the police court to-day. Young also pleaded guilty to six further charges of a similar nature. The date.® of the offences ranged from Julv, 1925, to January, .1926. ‘ , Young, in a statement to the police, s'aid he went to the fruit .shop ol Cheung Keo in Great North Road, and after climbing on to the roof of a shod, was able to reach through and open the window to' take a bag which contained £3O in sovereigns and half-sovereigns wrapped in paper. The accused further stated that on the night of December 10, 1925, he went to a Chinese laundry in Jervois Road, entered via a' window, and found two Chinese sleeping in an upstairs room. From their clothing hanging on the wall he abstracted about £l3 and then took some money from, a till downstairs. During October, 1925. he had taken about £l2 from a pair of trousers hanging behind the door in a Chinaman’s ho iksc in Khyber Pass Road. There was a Chinaman asieep in the room at the time.

Young went on to tell how he went into Natba Piatuls fruit shop in Jervois Road, Pensonby, where he covered his face with a handkerchief and presented a toy revolver at the Hindu, telling him to put 'his hands up and to hand over,his money. “He handed me a little over £4 in silver,’’ said Young. The accused were committed to' the Supreme Court for sentence.

A MOTORIST FINED. CHRLSTCHLTRCH, Jan. 24. Oswald Leonard Edie, Birokwood, Southland, was charged in the City Police Court to-day, before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., with being intoxicated while in charge of a. motor-car on January 22. After the hearing, the magistrate said he wias .satisfied, after consideration of the evidence and the actions of accused, that he was under J the influence of liquor, and not fit to. drive a car. Accused was not .drunk in the usual sense of the term, but he was not in a .normal state. Hie. would be fined £5, with costs £1 Is, and would be prohibited from driving until March 31. THEFT OF LODGE MONEY. AUCKLAND, Jan. 24. The theft of lodge money totalling £3O 19s 9d was admitted by Ernest Wright, .a young, man, in the Police Court to-day. Wright was secretary to the Richmond Lodge 4425, New Zealand, No. 13 Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes, said Senior Detective Hammond. The remuneration he received for this work was only nominal—about- £3 a quarter. Originally he was a ship’s .steward by occupation and had been in New Zealand only 12 months. He was remanded for sentence.

YOUTH ADMITS SEVERAL CHARGES. AUCKLAND. Jan. 24. The identity of the burglar who carried out a threat to. wreck a. shop at Parnell if he found no. money on his second visit was revealed in the Police Court to-day, when Charles Octavian Orlando Georgi, aged 20, pleaded guilty to a. variety of charges, including four of breaking and entering simps .and stealing goods. In a statement to the police, accused said he could not find any money in the shop, but he found some eggs and bacon, and cooked and ate them. He also ate some strawberries from the shop before leaving. He wrote a. message containing a threat- to- wreck the .shop, but this was done out of bravado, as he then had no .intention of returning. The next night he went back and took chocolates, fruit and drinks. He ate some cold chops, which he found in the gas stove. Accused was eauerht in a meat comnany’s shop near Mount, Albert a few days later, the capture being made by the manager about five o’clock in the morning. Accused was committed to- the Supreme Court for sentence.