COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 March 1927, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

AN ESCAPEE DEALT WITH. (IU 1 KLLPHArtr — rPHEBB ASSOCIATION .S WELLINGTON, March 9. Robert Harvey Campbell, a half caste Maori, who recently escaped from Mount Crawford prison after serving live months of a three years’ sentence for forgery, and who was recaptured after a fortnight’s freedom, appeared before Mr. Page, S.M. to-day/ charged with being an incorrigible rogue. Chief Detective Ward said that the escape was viewed in a serious light by the department, as it caused considerable expense and disturbed discipline. The (bill for benzine alone was £2O. An additional twelve months’ imprisonment was imposed. REMANDED FOR MEDICAL OBSERVATION. AIJ'CKL V VI), March t> .Algernon Tiiwuer Cnmpl>--r Jlui/w wag- charged at the Police Court witu molesting, abusing, and threatening to kill In.-, wife during the curieucy ot a separation order..- He was remanded tor a week for medipal observation. GREYMOUTH OASES. GREYMOUTH, March 9. Prisoners (Sentenced this- morning by his Honour, Mr. Justice 1 A dams? include : William Low and William Brown, breaking, entering, and theft, three years /at Borstal Institute; Stacey Joseph Oxenham, ex-court bailiff, theft oi £BB 14s, probation for three years, to pay costs £7 3s' 6d. to make restitution at the rate of £1 weekly, and to bake out a- prohibition order against himself. RAILWAY PORTER’S LAPSE. ASHBURTON. March 9. A charge of stealing a- postal packet containing three £1 notes from -a mail bag at Timvald, on February 26, was preferred -against a youth aged 18 formerly a railway porter /at- Thvwald. He pleaded guilty, arid was committed or sentence. Bail self was granted; £SO. The name of accused ' wavs suppressed.