COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 July 1927, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

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IBY TKI/EGRAPH—PKESB ASBUCI ATION . > Ctl R.LS'it 11UIU'H, J uly 27. A,s the result uf a brawl on the lorry steamer, James Gordon .Bennett, a seaman was arrested on the train today. Tie was charged with the theft of £lO from Robert Scollay, and with using personal violence.' He was remanded for a week. RACK TO PRISON AGAIN. MARTOX, July 27. William Roberts, ex-convict with many aliases, was -sentenced this morning to .six months' imprisonment ior presenting a valueless cheque at a. local hotel after borrowing a blank cheque at Waugaehu. The •accused was released from the Wellington gaol at the beginning of the present month, and had nine previous convictions for faJ.se pretences covering over thirty charges. The accused stated to the bench that he had won over £l2O at the Wellington races over Nnkmnai s victories and had been drunk ever .since. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND I! ORRERY. NELSON’, July 27. A further move to clear uj> the Ryan mystery (Ryan was found in a Nelson hotel with a fractured skull and other injuries) was made by the police today. when Clhas. Hogg was charged with assaulting Ryan at Upper Monte re and of robbing him of £2O. The accused was remanded to August 10.