COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 August 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

FARMER’S FAILURE TO KEEP BOOKS. (By JVlQgrapti— Press Association.) WANGANUI, Alug. 15. John Bourke, a bankrupt farmer of Waverley, for failure to keep books, was ordered by the Chief Justice to come up for sentence within three years if called upon. Ilis Honour intimated that he adopted this course solely on account of the excellent character which the accused had borne. INTOXICATION WHILE IN CHARGE OF CARS. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 15. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, William McAsev was convicted and admitted to probation for 12 months, and liis licence was suspended for that period. Handley Brown was also convicted and was admitted to probation for two years and his licence was suspended far that period. Both were charged with intoxication while in charge of motor cars and both were prohibited during their probation period. ALLEGED BAG SNATCHING. CHRISTCHURCH, August 15. As a sequel to alleged bag snatching at Biccarton yesterday, George Powell, alias Phillip Edward Fowler, appeared to-day and was charged with robbery with violence. He was remanded for a. week. THEFT OF MAIL BAGS. DUNEDIN, Aug. 15. At the Supreme Court, Walter Reynolds Sanders, on two charges of theft of mail bags, was sentenced to three years’ hard 1 labour.

OBTAINED MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES.

■ WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. i George William Nelson Wildermath. | aged 42. who was discharged from gaol ■ in March, was sent back to-day for I another six months after pleading guilty to a number of charges of obj taming money by false pretences. 1 The accused would borrow from busij ness firms by representing that he was i a member of a firm elsewhere with j whom they did business, and by prej tending that he had lost his wallet , and wanted something to tide him j over'. i SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. i WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. I Prisoners sentenced' by his Honour I Air Justice Smith to-day were: J Stanley Jesse Dark, theft as a servant of £400,, was ordered to be detained for two years for reformative treatment. Taare Hina Rewi, for forgery at Masterton, was admitted to probation for a year. Peter Sorensen, aged 66, for indecent assault on a'female child, was sentenced' to six months’ imprisonment. Walter Whitehouse, for theft as a servant of £658, was ordered two years’ detention for reformative ti’eatment. Henry Ernest Sehirnack, for indecetn assault on a female and for theft, was ordered to be detained for three years at a Borstal institution. David Swift, for breaking, entering raid theft, was ordered to be detained I for two years’ reformative treatment. William Edward Francis, for assault and robbery, and two charges of assault on females, was ordered to be detained for two years at a Borstal institution. Nathaniel John Reid, who recently injured a motor cyclist by running into him while driving a car on the Hutt Road, came up for sentence. Counsel said that the prisoner had pleaded guilty rather than wait tlu'ee months in prison, and that the accident was due to cigarette ash blowing into his eye. His Honour said no on© would suppose that the prisoner deliberately wished to injure the young man, but if. while intoxicated, he launched ’himself upon the Hutt Road in charge of a motor car on a Sunday evening, he was really guilty of a criminal offence. Probation could not be granted, nor was the case one for a. fine. A sentence of six months ’imprisonment and bis license to be cancelled with three vearx’ disqualification was imposed.