COURT NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1939, Page 2

COURT NEWS

GAOL FOR FALSE PRETENCES

(Per Press Association. — Copyright).

AUCKLAND, April 24

Four charges ot' obtaining £B6 at Rotorua between February 20 and March 10 by false pretences were admitted in the/. Magistrate’s Court by Harry Manning, aged 38, a labourer. In a statement to the police he said that, while working at a hostel, he met a young woman employed as a cook. They kept company for several months and agreed to marry. He obtained from her sums of money for the purchase of a business in Auckland. Actually, the business did not exist. He spent the money in drink. Detective-Sergeant Nalder said Manning’s conduct was despicable. On each of two charges Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., passed sentence of six months’ imprisonment, the terms to be cumulative, and on another charge granted probation for three years, conditional on the refund of the whole of the money advanced. TROUT TAKEN WITH GAFF. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 24. “We hear reports in every part of the district of men going out with spears and poaching 15 to 20 trout at a time, but we can’t catch them with the goods,’’ Mr A. Feakins, honorary ranger to the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, said in the New Ply- | mouth Magistrate’s Court this morning, when lie emphasised the difficulty of catching poachers. A young man, James Standing, was I charged with killing brown trout with a gaff, and taking trout without a license. He was convicted and fined £4 on the first count, and convicted and discharged on the second. It was emphasised by both a senI ior-sergeant and Mr Feakins that, I poaching was very widespread at the present time, with the water in the rivers so low,' and it was a, serious matter to acclimatisation societies, which were'spending a great deal of money to keep the rivers well stocked with fish for anglers'who paid their license fees. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST MAORI. AUCKLAND, April 26. ■ Arrested at noon on Monday, Henry Rama, 53. a Maori, and a horse-train-er, appeared in the Police Court today, charged with, on April 19, the in-; decent assault of a girl aged 13 years and eight months. On the application of the police Mr Orr Walker granted a remand to May 1. Bail was allowed at £IOO. BREAKING AND ENTERING, AUCKLAND, April 26. Three men, arrested on Monday in connection with the Tuakau . Town Board loss of money, Bernard Andrew. Mc-Brearty, 25, and’ George Edward Morton, 26. both labourers, appeared in the Police Court to-day charged with, on April 15, breaking and entering by day a counting house and stealing £43 15s in cash. A further charge was made against Ross of a broach of probation. In all cases Mr Orr Walker granted remands to May 14. WOMAN CHARGED WITH . ASSAULT. AUCKLAND, April 26. Arrested early this morning, Verm Galbraith, 25, was subsequently charged in the Police Court with assaulting Ernest Arthur Galbraith her husband on April 26. The police obtained a remand to May 4. “I think it would be better for her own sake if she was kept in custody,” l said Detective-Sergeant Nalder. “She attacked her husband with an axe while he was asleep this morning. She is in a very nervous state. Mr Orr Walker: Has she any friends here? Detective-Sergeant Nalder said there were none. Mr Jenkins: I am her husband’s solicitor. This may b*> tlm outcome of a maintenance case heard in this court on Friday. Mr Galbraith is very badly hurt in hospital. The Magistrate remanded the woman and ordered that in the meantime she he kept apart from other prisoners.