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LAW AND POLICE.

POLICE COURT.-Moxday. [Before Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M.I Drunkenness. —Sarah Dennis, for her fourth offence, was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labour. A first offending woman was dismissed with a caution. Two men, for their first offence, were each punished in the usual way. Alleged Stealing from the Person.— Francis Small was charged that on Saturday night last he stole the sum of 10s in money from the person of William Smith. The case was stated to be one of pocket picking. On the application of the police the accused was remanded till the 21st instant. Thkft of a Barometer—Frank Evans, an elderly man, was charged on remand that he stole a barometer, valued at 2os, the property of Adam Cairns. He pleaded not guilty. The evidence showed that ou April 6 Mr. Cairns, licensee of the Grand Hotel, missed the barometer from the entrance-hall of the hotel. He went to the Police Station to institute inquiries, and found that the police had the stolen article in their possession, it having been recovered from the accused hy Constable Culliuaine. This constable deposed that early in the morning of the day in question he met the accused goiug towards Freeman's Bay. The barometer was partially concealed under his coat. Witness arrested him, and asked him to account for his having the article in his possession. Accused was unable to explain, and was taken to the Police Station and locked up. In court, the accused denied that he stole the barometer, and alleged that it had come into his possession by accident. As he was not able to give a satisfactory account of how he came by the article, the Bench decided that ho had stolen it. The accused was then sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in Mount Eden gaol. The Te Kuiti Stabbing Case.—ln the case of William Carlson and Charles William Henry White, charged with having stabbed Kenneth Bayne, on December 26, at Te Kuiti, a further remand of a week was granted on the application of the police. As soon as the informant cau give evidence, the accused will appear at Te Awamutu to answer to the charge. Alleged Larceny of Clothing.—A girl of sixteen named Mabel Grey (alias Elizabeth Grey, alias Mabel Stevens) was charged that on March 25, she stole a number ot articles of clothing and a carpet bag, of the total value of £8 las, the property of Anuio Glover. The evidence of Robert Glover, caretaker of the Saltwater Baths, showed that the girl had been employed by Mrs. Glover as a servaut. On March 25 witness got up at five o'clock in the morning to open the baths, and before opening he knocked at I accused's bedroom door. On receiving no reply, he entered, and found that the girl was missing. He informed his wife, Mrs. Glover, and they searched the house. They found as the result of their search that a number of articles of wearing apparel were gone, and they gave information to the police. Further evidence showed that the girl afterwards went up to Mercer, with the bagfull of clothes. On coming back to Auckland I she was arrested by Constable Hollis at the Railway Station, and she confessed that she had stolen the articles. His Worship said that as there were previous convictions against the accused, he could not deal with her under the First Offender's Act, and therefore committed her for trial at the Supreme Court. Factories Act. — Hop Lee, who was charged with having employed three girls in his laundry, in Wellesley-street, on April 3, after one p.m., was convicted, and fined 5s with costs, in the first case, and Is in the other two cases. Mr. McAlister appeared for the Inspector ot Factories, Mr. Ferguson, and Mr. Hesketh on behalf of the defendant. Mr. Hesketh said the excuse offered by his client was that he had been in the habit of giving the girls a whole holiday on Monday. He had not thought it necessary on this account that they should have the usual half-holiday, and he did not know that he was committing a breach of the Act by thus employing the girls. Mr. McAlister contended that die defendant knew very well what he was doing, and called the Inspector ef Factories to depose that he had given the defendant a printed notice concerning the Saturday closing. The Inspector said that the defendant was well aware, and had full warning that the Act allowed no compromise of the kind.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10415, 13 April 1897, Page 3

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LAW AND POLICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10415, 13 April 1897, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10415, 13 April 1897, Page 3