COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 23 August 1929, Page 10

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

WOMAN FINED FOR SELLING BEER. {By Telegraph—Press Association.,) WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. In the Pe-tone Court, Bertha Constance Lanson, a. married woman, who keeps a. confectionery shop, was charged with selling beer. A constable gave evidence that he found two men with a companion in defendant ’s shop under suspicious circumstances.

These three men were called to give evidence, but the police characterised them 'all as hostile, as they declared that the statements they had made to | the police were untrue and they gave j fresh evidence on entirely different) lines. This was that one of the men j had purchased a crate of a dozen bottles from a- brewery opposite, and the! shop had acted as a depot for orders. | The Magistrate' said that the witness had evidently come to court with a concocted story and most of the evidence was on <a .par with that. He lined the defendant £25. TROTTING SWINDLE. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 22. In the Supreme Court, Samuel Bates and Leslie Holland, for “ringing-in’ tiie trotter Bruce a*i imperial Thorpe, were sentenced to one year’s, hard) labour by Air Justice Adams. The Crown Prosecutor said that the prisoners had committed an impudent swindle and that the men had worked with the same dishonest miyds to commit a fraud in which was the possibility of considerable profit to themselves. Tneir hopes were disappointed, but that dill not affect the nature and quality of their act. The sentence must be substantial.

SENTENCES AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, August 22. For .snatching a hag from a woman at the racecourse and stealing a sum of money, Phillip Edward Fowler, a labourer, was sentenced to three months’ gaol by Mr. Young, S.M. Harold Hardgrave, alias King, alias Hugh, for the theft of £2 and false pretences, received 18 months’ goal. REFOR A l ATI ON TRE ATAIENT ORDERED. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 22. For stealing £BBS. Alfred Ernest Craddock, aged 60, a former land agent, was to-day sentenced: to detention for reformative treatment for two years by Air Justice Adams. ANOTHER REMAND. AUCKLAND, Aug. 22. .Making his fourth appearance in the Police Court on a. charge of murdering Thomas Leavy on August 2, George Caffrey, labourer, aged 33, was remanded for one month. THE CUBIS TRAGEDY. AUCKLAND, Aug. 22. Appearing for the third time in the Police Court, Annie Elizabeth Cubis, aged 40. was charged with the murder on August 6 of .her twin boys, I iniothy Brian Cubis and William Cubis. She was remanded until August 29.

CHARGES OE THEFT ADMITTED. AUCKLAND. Aug. 22. Eleven robberies from suburban houses had a sequel in the Police Court when Cyril Patterson, aged 21. and Thomas Henry Mclntyre, aged 21. pleaded guilty to all 11 charges of theft, and Hector Donald Connolly, aged 19, to five of the 11 charges. The police said all the three accused wore out on license from a Borstal institution. and started flic- robberies 13 da vs after their release. Connollv left to take up work at Heleusvilie after five robberies had been committed. Patterson and AlcIntvre. then carried on by themselves. Patterson and Mclntyre were sentenced to three years’ reformative detetion, and Connolly to two years’ reformative detention.