POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15166, 4 December 1912, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGES OF THEFT,

A charge of stealing a pair of trousers and a sweater was preferred against Alfred Dory Ogier, who appeared before Mr. E. 0. Cutten, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday. Ogier was additionally charged with being a rogue and a Vagabond. The clothes had disappeared from a clothes-line in Wakefield-«treet, and tho next morning Ogier was found in a backyard in Grey-street, sleeping on the sweater, and wearing the trousers. A sentence of three months' hard labour was

imposed. John Milne, a labouring man, appeared to answer a charge of having stolon a pair of trousers, the property of Hyman Shenken, and two pairs of socks, the property of some person unknown. It was stated that tho accused went to a secondhand dealer and sold him an alarm clock, but before leaving the shop Milne stole a pair of trousers, which he disposed of to another dealer. Later the accused offered two pairs of eocks for sale to the first dealer. He was arrested and could give no satisfactory explanation as to how he came into possession of the socks. Ho was prohibited and sentenced to a month's hard labour.

When arrested for drunkenness last Thursday night, Harry West, a young man of 21, was endeavouring to dispose of a bicycle which he had commandeered in Grey-street. He was taken to the police station, and there three billiard balls were found in his possession. The accused, who has only been in the Dominion about four months, was remanded for a week pending a report from the probation officer.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A young man named George Edward Bradley, charged with assaulting John and James Monaghan, was remanded for a week.

A juvenile, charged with stealing £1 5s 3d, the property of H. L. Possenmskie, was convicted and discharged, his parents being ordered to refund the money and pay the costs. On a charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse by overloading it, William Cain was fined 10s with costs.

Two motor cyclists, Harold Nathan and Arthur Born©, were each fined 10s with costs, for negotiating the Parnell Kiso at a speed deemed by the magistrate to be unsafe.

For insobriety one first offender was fined ss, while another, who failed to appear, was ordered to forfeit his £1 bail. Martin Saunders and Michael Hickey were fined 10s and £1 respectively. For failing to send their children regularly to school, William Reed was fined 30s with 7s costs, George Quintal! 14s with 7s costs, John Pates 10s with 7s costs, Norman Nicholson 18s with 7s costs, Charles N. Johnston 12s with 7s costs, William George 18s with 7s costs, Frank Briggs 12s with 7s costs, and Christina Doonin 10s without coste.