COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 April 1927, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ILLEGAL OPERATION. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, March 31. Three, charges of unlawfully using an instrument •on March 3' and April 9 1925, and June 8, 1926, were preferred against Hannah Matilda Dalton, aged 54, in the Police Court to-day. After the evidence had been heard accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. RIOTOUS LIVING. AUCKLAND, March 31. Fiftten charges relating to the issue of valueless cheques, were admitted in the Police Court to-day by Alfred Hinton. There was one charge of stealing two cheque forms, six charges of making false cheques of a total value of £lOl 2s 6d. with the intent that they should be acted on as genuine, and eight charges of obtaining goods and money of the total value of £ll7 by means of valueless cheques. The dates of the charges ranged from February 8 to March 18. Accused said he had obtained cheque forms from various people. filled them in, signed them “T. H. Evans,” and cashed them.

“The money had been spent inviotous living,” said accused, who pleaded guilty and was committed to the .Supreme Court for sentence.

IDLE AND DISORDERLY. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON. March 31. A sentence of two months’ imprisonment was imposed bv Mr Page,. S.M., to-day on Charles MacDonafd, a- jockey, 33 years of age, charged with idle and disorderly behaviour, and having no lawful means of support. The police case was that the accused had been associating with the professional Australian pickpocket O’Brien, sentenced yesterday to three months’ imprisonment on a similar charge.