COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 August 1928, Page 11

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

FUND S MISAPPROPRIAT ED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Aug. 13. William Henry Janvers, aged 22, pleaded guilty to three charges of theft by misappropriation to-day at the Police Court. He was admitted to probation for 'l2 months. The accused was employed as a book canvasser for a Dunedin firm and amounts _ unaccounted for were received at Woodville, Cambridge and Matamata.

FIXED FOR GIVING FALSE ALARM CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 13. To seven charges of giving false alarms of lire, David Hull, aged 27 years, pleaded guilty this morning. Ho was fined £2O, in default one month’s imprisonment. The Magistrate, Mr Mosley, remarked : “l T ou can consider yourself mighty lucky that I do not send you to gaol.” Counsel said the accused had been drinking heavily. An otficer of the brigade had surprised Hull breaking an alarm box on Saturday.

THEFT OF MONEY FROM UNEMPLOYED.

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 13 Arthur Leonard Fisher, lately a leader of the unemployed, pleaded guilty this morning to theft of £l6 15s, the property of the Christchurch organisation of the unemployed. He was fined £lO and ordered to refund the amount stolen, in default six weeks’ imprisonmnent. 3 The police said that the money had been obtained by tickets sold by the accused for a concert held on behalf of the unemployed in July. The Magistrate. Mr Mosley, said: “With the genuine unemployed one must sympathise sincerely, but with men of this type 1 cannot- have any sympathy at all. Owing to the lack of subsidies on the amount stolen Fisher has deprived the unemployed of practically £50.”

SENTENCES AT CHRISTCHURCH

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 13. At the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Adams sentencied Walter Patrick Morally, alias Murray, to three years’ detention for reformative treatment on chages of heaking, entering and theft. A youth, aged 17 years, who pleaded guilty to assault on a female, was lennteneed to five years’ detention at a Borstal institute.

'COURT CASES AT GREYiMOUTJI

iGREYMOUTH, Aug. 13. William Linldiater, who pleaded guilty to theft; of £23 11s 10d, the property of the Grey Power Board by whom he was formerly employed as meter reader, whs admitted ito probation for two years by Mr W. Meldrum, S.M., on the condition that he takes out a prohibition order for that period. James Bertie, a baker at Dobson, was fined £3 with 'costs for 'selling short-weight bread. ‘The inspector stated fliat. of fifteen loaves tested, only one was of the correct weight.