COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 June 1928, Page 11

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

BANKRUPTCY NOT DISCLOSED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, June 19. At the Supreme Court Finlay John McLean was sentenced 1 to <a month’s imprisonment for contracting a debt of over £2O without'disclosiing that he was an undischarged bankrupt. He had been bankrupt in Wanganui, Wellington and Hamilton, and had only once obtained a discharge.

AN OLID CASE OF THEFT. WELLINGTON, June 19. ’ When William David Creamor, aged 52, was sentenced yesterday to three months’, imprisonment for theft, it was discovered that lie was the perpetrator of the theft of a kettle drum and! other articles from Barton’s circus in 1919.’ The accused had been before the court in 1923 and 1927 and the police had not known his identity, as the goods had been pawned in another name. Satisfying (himself that the accused was not protected by the Statute of Limitations, Air Page, S.M., imposed! a sentence of three months’ imprisonment to be served 1 at the end of his present term. ATONE,Y BY VALUELESS CHEQUES. WELLINGTON, June 19. Representing that his father had died and left him £13,000, Leslie Herbert Howe had nq difficulty in getting credit for several taxi rides from the Blue Cab 'Company. He was to-day charged with obtaining credit to the amount of £o 'lbs 3d by means of false representations and lie Was charged with obtaining £l4 by means of valueless cheques and With stealing five cheque forms. He was given six months’, imprisonment. Howe is a labourer, aged 35, with a long list of previous convictions. CHARGE OF FORGERY REDUCED. AUCKLAND, June 19. Bertram John Bissell, who was arrested at Auckland on charges m connection with forged hank notes, one of which he used at the Taibape iefreshment rooms, appeared at the Police Court to-day. The accused had traced the note from a -genuine pound note, on a piece of ordinary writing paper over a- sheet of glass with a pen. The charge of forgery was reduced to one of theft of 3 9s 1 6d, and on this charge, together with that of theft of £2 at Wallace siding, Greymouth. lie was ordered 12 months’ detention in a Borstal institution.