COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 6

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

YOUTH SENT TO BORSTAL INSTITUTE. (BY TELEGBAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 25. A youth aged 17 years admitted, in the*. Police Court to-day, that lie had, without colour of right, converted to his own use several motor-cars and trucks, and also to a charge of having stolen an overcoat valued at £7 os, shoes valued at- 30s, and a__briet bag and contents valued- at £2 5s When questioned by a, constable concerning the overcoat and the brief bag, the accused .said: he had found these in one of the cars he had taken. He had driven to the Domain, where he thiew them away in a drive. The, constable accompanied the accused to the Domain, where a -thorough .search, was made without result Two of the trucks were damaged, while the tools and a tyre were etekn from another of the, vehicles. ‘‘•There is only one thing o oe _ done with this boy,” said Mr F. Loot, S M “His father cannot i-oox alter him- in fact I think tins iartier approves of the idea of having ln*n sent to a Borstal Institute.” “I think it would be to Ins aci outage,” .said the father, who was islanding near the dock. - “I’m sure it would.” said Mr i.l nt, “I’m going to .send him to 'lie Pc*, ftal Institute for three years.” ILLEGAL SALE OF LIQUOR. AUCKLAND. Jan. 25. A,s the- outcome of an incident on the night of December 10, when two men wore* supplied with seven bottles or beoi in the street outside the AlexandraHotel, the' .licensee, Albert Edward Neville, was fined £lO, with, costs, in the- Police. Court, Mr h • K. Hum, S M , entering a conviction on a charge of selling liquor in contravention o. section 190 of the Licensing Act, Rupert Bell, a carter, who was sometimes empoyod on Saturday afternoons and ho’idavs as a barman was fined £5 on a, charge of supplying liquor to a person who was- not at the 1 time entitled to bo .supplied. The Magistrate said Neville had several defences: (1) That seven bott.es of beer were sold, by him to Bell for Ins own consumption; (2) that the beer was not supplied on the premises; (3) that lie- was only responsible for what Bell did as barman, and that this sale ol l>ei-r was outside the .scope’ of his- authority. The first defence was a question of fact, and he did not believe the statement. . , r T . “If I did believe it,” said Mr Hunt, “th? sale would be illegal unless the the liquor was sold for consumption on the premises. The third defence might have been an inspired one. Bell opened the bar unknown to the licensee, but he had given Neville the 7s when he was in the bar. Neville handed over the liquor without asking any questions or taking any precautions. Ha therefore had to he -convicted. MAGISTRATE RESERVES DECISION. DUNEDIN, Jan. 25. Constable George Macartney appeared again this morning in the Police Court charged on two informations with committing perjury m the Supreme Court on November 3, by stating that- John William Lockett was drunk on the night of July 23 and that he struck Lockett no blow. After lengthy evidence for the prosecution, a great deal of which, according to the Magistrate, was unreliable, the decision was reserved till Monday.