COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

SNATCHED A PURSE. (Uy Tcie«rapU —Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Aug. 1(. After drinking with another man in the Panama Hotel, Walter Leonard Clark, aged 33, on going outside, asked him. for the loan of a shilling. The man produced a purse, whereupon Clark grabbed it and made off, but was subsequently arrested. He was fined this morning a matter of £5, the alternative a. month’s imprisonment. Ho had been before the court two months ago on a somewhat similar offence. SENTENCES AT NAPIER. NAPIER, Aug. 17. In the Supreme Court., Robert. Forbes Rlaverty, for breaking, entering and theft and forgery, eight counts, was sentenced to four years’ detention for reform a t ive t reatment.

Irene Campbell Price, for breaking and entering, was ordered to be detained for three years at a Borstal institution. DOWN AND OUT. MARTON, Aug. 17. When William Thomas Boyce, aged 65, of no fixed address, was charged this morning with vagrancy, the police stated that alien the accused was arrested ho had in his possession a quantity of spirts of salts, which he intended to take. He had lost his wife 23 years ago in Queensland. His plan was to retire to the rear of a shop in the main street, swallow the salts, and then expire on the shop front at the exact hour of his wife’s death. The accused, who is down and out and is being cared for by a local clergyman, was ordered to come up lor sentence when called upon. KEPT COMMON GAMING HOUSE TTMARU, Aug. 17. “This man is one of the vultures who are living on the lambs of TimanT’ said Inspector Bird of Ivan Vuleta, who. in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, was fined: £IOO and costs, in default three months’ imprisonment, for having kept a common gaining house. ’William Alexander O’Connor, baran, for a similar offence, was fined £IOO and costs, in default- three months’ imprisonment. Mr O. R. Orr-Wnlker, S.M.. was on the bench. Vuleta and O’Connor, pleaded not guilty to a charge of bookmaking and guilty to that of keeping a common gaming house. The police inspector withdrew the bookmaking charges-.