COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 January 1928, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ADMITTED TO PROBATION. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION ) GISBORNE, Jan. 4. At the Police Court, Francis John Cassidy pleaded guilty to charges of theft and .false pretences, and was admitted to probation for three years. BACK TO PRISON AGAIN. WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. Sentenced in .1924 at Wellington' to two years’ imprisonment, for breaking and entering on ten charges, Victor Hugo Greaves, alias Terence O’Connor, aged 30, four months later broke prison at Wi Tako and went to Australia, where he was imprisoned on six charges of stealing from dwellings, and at the expiry of his sentence was placed on board the Maunganui and returned to Wellington. He appeared to-day on a charge of breaking from prison and being an incorrigible rogue, and received six months’ imprisonment, to be served at the end of the term to which he was originally sentenced.

MOTORIST FINED FOR INTOXICATION. LEVIN, Jan. 4. Following upon a collision between two cars on the main road near Waikanae on Sun day, the driver of on e car, George Saunders, of Wellington, was charged at the Otaki Court, before justices, with driving a car while intoxicated. He was fined £ls and costs. He was also fined' £1 for causing damage to the police cells. A BELLICOSE MASTER MARINER, WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. The fact that he had too many drinks yesterday was the reason given by Oscar Edward Solvin, master mariner, for knocking down Thomas Coltman, proprietor of the Grand Hotel. It was stated in Court that when Solvin took no notice of a porter who went to warn him that he had little time to catch his boat, Coltman himself went to Solvin’s room with this information. Solvin knocked him down and stood over him in a threatening attitude. Coltman had obtained medical attention and his suit was also damaged. Solvin was fined £3, half to be given to Coltman, and he was also ordered to pay £3 3s medical expenses.