POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15655, 25 June 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

AUGMENTING HIS WAGES. i : ■■!• MARRIED MAN'S LAPSE. - ;■■ "••'" : ''' : f ) r^ :r "'-* ■"■" '"' ' A iouNtf; : man, 'William Love, -25 yeari of ; : ! age, for whom Mr. Anderson -appeared, ' was charged -at the Police Gottirfc yester.' :.vi* . day. before Mr. FY' -V;; Frazer,;S.M., with converting to his own use the Bum of £.16".'. 19s. received from' customers on behalf of .■ ; his employer,' Thomas . Hosking. ',[-% \ .-. Detective-Sergeant JSoljis. explained that' . Love, who was a jottrrievman. baker, was .. allowed to collect accounts from. Mr. •Hosking's.: customers. Between March. and June 6 last he had appropriated fe s his own use a total of £18 19s. { '. Mr. Anderson stated '.that LoyojtwW-j ~t . married and had two children,' his total ' a wages being 48s a week, Small deductions were made from his wages when 3 shortages' occurred in the returns. Love a fell into the habit of making uplthe: de- ? ductions from the amounts he - collected, ' i and, not being detected, he took larger . sums. It was costing him more than no , : . earned to live. , ; v ;;" ' ' i ,.' His Worship considered "in© case was a , most difficult one to deal with, but. the fact* remained that Love had.stolen about £1 ? ■' weeic. He would be given an opportunity ■. to reform, but he must repay the stolen money. Accordingly Love was convicted and ordered to come up for'sentence four weeks' hence,' it being made a condition ;V that he should report daily to the police. i- MISCELLANEOUS. I Joseph Hopper, who became: , intoxicated, ':, i- while ho was out, on bail -for his 'first ' e offence of drunkenness, was- fined 15s. * t , i. Henfv Stanley, for his third offence, was fined 20s, and was prohibited, while one first offender forfeited his bail of £1 and ' y another was fined ss. r - Thomas Edward Lcnehan (Mr.. _T. * H Dawson), who was arrested at Wellinge ton on Saturday, was remanded for \ , II week on a charge of illegally selling liquor '• to John Fraser. Bail was fixed at ono , & Buret" of £75. ' ' '■■ )f A bootblack, Harry, Varcoe, was fined Is. and ordered to pay: ?s cost?, orr-a. t ,i- ch'arso of leaving his boot-block in Vic- / ' o toria Street. >" ■';'■ „'■'?;''» „ ~'" .• Five drivers. Hugh Crawford, Cyril Edcacumbe, William .Cou]stick,, r ,-,Jolm. .* Green, and Percy White; wlio.werS'con- ;•; victed of driving 'oyer the Queen-and Vic- , toria Streets intersection .at greater than ;.« a walking pace, were each, .fined .5?. and- v ordered to pay 7s costs, William Orange, . for driving a horse and cart otiw wrong , ld Bide or Oicen Street, was dealt with in ft * similar manner. ■■-.-■■. - ; - ■••>'--■< * Of . <j S £VSiSJJ^~ r ■' f' ~...■