LAW AND POLICE.
SUPREME COURT. —Criminal Sittixcs. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Conolly.) The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were continued on Saturday.
A BURGLAR SENTENCED. The young man Edmund Bell, who pleaded guilty "in the lower Court tc a charge of burglariously entering the premies of Robert Row, was brought up loi se tin ... Detective McTlveney stated in evidence that as far as In; had been able to ascertain p - son or had previously borne a good c.wracter. His Honor passed a sentence of 12 months' hard labour.
POLICE COURT NEWS. Mo.=Frs. -lames Stichbury and Thomas H. Smith. J.P.'s, disposed of the business at Saturday's sitting of the Police Court. Drunkenness : Five first-offenders for inebriety were convicted and discharged witn the usual admonition. .John I'raslm, lor a similar offence, was sent to prison for 4o> hours without the option of a (inc. On two charges of being found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order against him, he was remanded till this morning. Indecent Act: David Kelly, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 48 hours' imprisonment for committing a grossly indecent act in Queen-street on Friday night. Fighting in the. Street: Constable Shaw on Friday night arrested two men, named David Sullivan and Albert Hanson for fighting in Queen-street, and 011 the accused being brought before the Court they were each fined £1, in default a week's imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11826, 2 December 1901, Page 3
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