COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 25 July 1929, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

DRUNK WHILE IN CHARGE OF CAR, (By - Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, .July 24. Thomas Alexander AgneYV yvus to-day convicted of having been, intoxicated while in charge of a- car, The magistrate said that if accused Yvould take out a .prohibition order he Yvould be fined £5, but if not he Yvo-uldl to fined £25. Accused’s current license Yvould be cancelled and no license YYxmlcl be issued to- him for the folloYving year. AgneYV appeared before justices or ithe peace on the same charge last Yveek, but the information yvus dismissed without prejudice, on the grounds that the police had not proved the case tnrough failing to call the person yylio advised them of accused’s condition. Senior-Sergt. Fox explained to-day that the person yvlio telephoned the police had not disclosed his on- her name. ALLEGED FAILURE, TO ACCOUNT. WELLINGTON. July 25. Walter WTuteh-ouse, aged 59, a clerk, was- remanded l at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. He was charged with failing to account for £6SS to liis employers, the To- Aro Loan and Discount and 1 turnstine-nt Co. Bail YY r as alloYved. -SENTENCES! AT AVELLING TON. WELLINGTON, July 25. Prisoners sentenced by the Chief Justice were : Francis Muxr-oYV, aged 51, for breaking and entering and theft-, Yvas sentenced to reformative detention for twelve months. John Joseph McClintock, aged 43, a labourer, for breaking and entering Yvitli intent to commit a crime, received! three years’ hard labour. George' Herbert Whitfield,. a farm labourer, for ibiga-my, received ttvo years’ hard labour. Darrell Henry Barnaby, aged 26, for breaking end entering and theft, Yvas sentenced to two years’ hard labour, sentences to be cumulative on the sentence a-lrea-dy being served. Henry Governor, for breaking, entering and theft at Masterton, three months’ hard labour. Eric Steedman received twelve months’ detention for breaking, entering and theft at Mao ter ton. Gilbert Douglas Pryce, for breaking, entering and theft at Taihape, received three years’ detention for reformative treatment. Peter McGregor McCrae, for breaking, entering and theft, Yvas ordered to be detained for two years at a Borstal institution. YEAR-OLD OFFENCE. INVEROARGILL, .Inly 24. Theft of goods from the s.s. Northumberland when it was at Bluff twelve months ago was admitted by Frederick William Snowden, a seaman aged 20, John Hislop Bertrand, a fireman aged 24, and. Albert Cosmo Horace Harraway, a steivard aged 24, in the police court to-day. They were charged with the theft of a roll of worsted suiting valued at £52 12i3, and four cases of whisky valued at £49.

Detective-Sergeant Hewitt said that in July, 1928, the Northumberland was at Bluff and the articles were stolen. Shortly afterwards the Bluff police found the articles in a home at Bluff, and a man (Jackson) who was arrested implicated the three accused. Jackson had given the men £l. They saw in a New Plymouth paper an account of the seizure of the goods at Bluff and they deserted their ship. They frankly admitted the offence. They had been at New Plymouth for twelve months and must have been liehaving themselves, as they had not come under the notice of the police. The men were first offenders. The magistrate said he was willing to admit accused to probation for two years on condition that they prohibited themselves. ADMITTED TO PROBATION. Appearing before Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., at New Plymouth Court to-day, a man who yesterday pleaded guilty to seven chargers of false pretences in connection with benzine obtained at Manaia and Opunake, was placed on probation for twelve months. Publication of the name was suppressed.