COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 September 1927, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ARSON. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) \\ ELniN GToN, August 3i - James Perry, a boiler maker, aged 36, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of attempting to set fire to a house at Kilbirnie on the night of August 19. The accused who admitted breaking and entering five houses in that district within the last month or so, was committeed for sentence on the latter charges. Perry > who has been in custody since August 19, appeared before Mr. fi. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to breaking and entering three houses and stealing goods and money to the value of £9 4s 6d. He also admitted breakiiio- and entering two other houses with intent to steal, but denied a charge of attempted arson, although, in a statement to the police, he said he was in the house a few minutes before the outbreak occurred.

ALLEGED THEFT OF MONEY. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 1. William Roy McDonald, ex-manager of the Christchurch branch, was charged with the. theft of sums totalling £654, the propertv of the Guardian. Assurance Company. He pleaded not guilty and was committed to- the Supreme Court for trial.

ALLEGED' THREATS TO KILL. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 31. “It might look as if I were a. murderer, because of the production, of this carving knife in Court, .1 used to sit down after tea. to write my letter to Alavis, and one night, when I was looking for something to' say, my eyes fell on the knife and l I wrote about it.” Stanley Rleid Amies Wood' made, this statement to-day when he was charged in the Police Court on eight counts, with sending-. threats to kill in letters addressed to Alavis Lillian AlacKimder, aged 20. , i, Both lived at Inglewood, Woods house over-looking the girl’s backyard. According to' the evidence Wood, a bachelor living on a pension, had paid attention to the girl without encouragement for two yearn. He had sent her numerous gifts varying from three sums of £26, to a gramophone and » sewing machine, none of which was ec--06 After the eighth letter threatening to murder the girl, the police were informed. , , , Accused was not represented by counsel and the Magistrate entered a l>lea of ’not guilty for him and committed him to the Supreme Court for trial.

FINED £SO.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. Thomas Harold Cotter, aged 49, an Auckland business man and owner ot the car which careered backwards in Symonds Street on Tuesday night and crashed through the window .of J milliinerv establishment was to-day ordered’by Mr. Hunt, S.M., to pay a fine of £SO and had his drivers license cancelled for twelve months on a charge of intoxication whilst on ohiHirg’6 l of motor c&r. TWO GIRLS ARRESTED.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. The two girl tourists from Wellington who were arrested yesterday when about to start on the reurn journey in n dilapidated car, were charged at the Police Court with being idle and disorder lv persons. , The ’ police stated that since they arrived here they had been staying out late at night. It was right that they should lie taken care of till their patens or friends were communicated with. They were remanded in care ot Major Gordon, the women’s probation officer.