COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1927, Page 6

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT

(11l TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, May 5. A .sentence of seven years’ imprisonment was imposed by Mtr Justice Stringer, in tlie Supreme Court, upon Hannah Matilda Dalton, a married woman, aged 54 years, who was found guilty on charges of unlawfully using instruments upon a woman for an illegal purpose. Owing to the fact that the accused is paralysed in one leg, she was allowed to remain seated in the dock.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

AUCKLAND, May 5. Arising out. of aii assault at Mange re on April 13, when John Boys, formerly employed as a cook on the steamer Marama. was attacked and a .suitcase containing four tins _of illicit opium was stolen. Roy Morrison and Laurence Nacey were found guilty of robbery with violence in the Supreme Court today. Sentence was deferred until Monday. ATTEMPTED OFFENCE! AGAINST A GIRL.

AUCKLAND, May 5

At the Supreme Court, Charles Roy B. Anton, aged 23, a taxi-driver at Dargarv.ille, was sentenced to three months’, imprisonment on a charge of an attempted offence oil a girl aged 15.

SUPREME COURT AT DUNEDIN

DUNEDIN, May 5. An intention to make application to the Crown Law Office to enter a nolle prosequi was given by the Crown Prosecutor in the charges- of stealing £125 and abducting ai girl at Clyde preferred at the- -Supreme Court against Arthur Cyril Bond. On ai further count the accused pleaded guilty to converting to his- own use the proceeds of ai cheque, the property of himself and: E. J. Cameron. He was remanded for sentence.

ACCUSE,FD ACQUITTED’.

' DUNEDIN, May 5. “Prisoner, you are- discharged. Ido not disagree with the verdict of the jury, but at the -same time I wan to point out to- yon that your behaviour was -distinctly discreditable and you should not have provoked these- people as you did.” So ispoke Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court, when a verdict of not guilty was returned against William Duff, a -school-master, who was charged with using obscene -languarge -in a- dance -hia-11 at Macrae’s Flat.

FINED FOR BETTING WITH BOOKMAKER. CHRISTCHURCH, May 5. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, charges were heard against various persons for betting with Alfred Vivian Wliitta, who was convicted of being a bookmaker and fined £4OO in March. The cases were practically the first of their kind to be- brought in New Zealand.

Mr Mosley, S.M., took a serious view of the offences, and inflicted penalties ranging from £3 up to £2O and costs, and fixed imprisonment of a substantial nature by the way of default or non-compliance with distress warrants.