HASTINGS MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 238, 20 September 1922, Page 6

HASTINGS MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. R. XV. Dyeyr, S.M., presided this morning, when he dealt with the following business: — Exceeding the Speed Limit.—. John B. Hamilton (26 miles per hour); Norman A. Avery (28 miles); Nora Armstrong (25 miles) were each charged with driving motor cars in excess of the speed limit (12 miles per hour). They were convicted and fineu £2 and costs varying from 9/- to 26/6. Cycling Without Lights.—Douglas Peck, tor riding a bicycle in the borough, after dark, without a light, was hned £1 and costs 7/-. A Bare-faced Theft. —A Maori youth namedy Frank Scott, alias Tawahai, was charged, on remand, with (1) at Hastings, on September 16th., stealing a pair of boots, value £2 2/6, the property of Mr. James Tweedie, and (2) on the same date, stealing a scarf, value 5/-, the property ot Thomas Robert Aiderman and (3) on September 9th., stealing one pair of shoes, value £l, the property of some person unknown. Accused pleaded guilty to all charges. Sergeant Hogan said that the owner left a parcel of boots at the National Stables, and about 8 p.m. accused came in, asked for the parcel, cut the string and tried on a pair of boots, quite openly, and took them away. The attendant thought the parcel was his. The owner called afterwards and found his property gone. The proprietor of the stables and a constable visited a billiard saloon and questioned accused, who ran away, but he was chased by the constable and the proprietor, who caught him on a vacant section. He took the scarf from the pocket of an overcoat left at the stables, and the shoes he stole from the Olympia Cabaret. He had been previously convicted of similar offences. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labobur on the first charge, and a month on each of the other charges, the sentences to be concurrent. Wahine Indulges in Shop-lifting. — A young Maori woman, named Araeata Tepui, aged 24, was charged with, at Hastings, on September 18th., stealing twelve yards ot crepe-de-chene, value £5 14/6, the property of Mr. William Webb, draper, and (2) on the same date, at Hastings, stealing 31 yards of blue serge, value £2 5/-, the property of Messrs. Gill Bros. pleaded guilty. Sergeant Hogan said that Mr. Webb missed the goods frqm his counter, and finding that accused and another Maori woman had been in the shop, Constable Brenchley interviewed them regarding the theft, which accused denied. The property was, however, found in a bag in a vehicle used by accused. Gill Bros, cloth was also found in the bag. In 1920 accused had been sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment at the Supreme Court in \\ ellington and in June 1921 she was released on probation. There was still a year of her prabation to run and the Prisons Board would deal with the breach of her probation. She admitted the thefts, afterwards spying that the other woman knew nothing about it. His Worship reserved sentence until this day week, pending to receipt of information as to what action the Pricons Board were going to take, the accused to remain in custody, in the meantime. CIVIL CASES. Judgment was given for iilaintiffs in the following undefended cases: —Q. Santuin v. Charles Duncan, £7 5s lid, costs 30s 6d; XV. M. Newrick v. Stafford O’Neill, £1 15s, costs 9s; B. C. Story v. Minnie Bourgeois, £6, costs 31s 6d.