COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 September 1928, Page 6

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ROBBERY ALLEGED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, Aug. 30. “Help! Police! I’m being robbed!” were cries that reached Sergeant Dogger t last night. On investigation the sergeant found a middle-aged man in RusseM Street aa'lio declared he had been robbed and assaulted. He loudly accused one man of the offence and added thaU lanother Avals concerned. The accused mail Avas then taken to the police station. This morning Thomas Martin Power appeared before a justice of the peace to answer a charge of having robbed John Scott of £lO and a me-bul watch, a total va'luo of £ll. He' was also charged I that at the time of the offence lie used peiiwinall 1 violence. A remand was granted for a week. Bail Avas refused. FINE OF £IOO IMPOSED.

HAMILTON, Aug. 31. John Walker, avlio was found guilty of negligent driving when a lorry overturned near Te Arolia, killing a Maori Avoman, wa-s sentenced tins morning by Mr. Justice Blair. He was fined £IOO, in default six months’ imprisonment. FINED FOR ASSAULT..

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 31. William Barns, a baker, was fined £5, in default one month’s imprisonment, on a. charge of assault, and a similar sentence was imposed on a charge, of indecent language. Mr. Mosley, S.M., said: “This man ought to be indicted for perjury. I hope the police will look into the matter.”

NO INCOME TAX RETURNS

WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. A fine of £25 was imposed on David Andrews for failure to furnish returns of income for the year ended March 31.

THEFT BY POSTAL OFFICIAL

WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. “The- safety of mails in the post offices is of great public importance, and the courts never look lightly on offences by officials in post offices concerning tampering with the mails,” said Mr. Page, S.M., when sentencing a young postman named Henry Edward Roberts to he detained in a Borstal institute for 12 months on five charges of stealing letters containing money, nostal notes and stamps, involving £5 8s fid.