POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15766, 14 November 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

STOLEN CASE OF SUGAR.

CARTER GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.

Ac.™ named Charles S. Anderson Ii a , ,- U Zander), on remand, pleadea gu.lty at the Police Court yesterday morning to the theft, on November 0. ot a case of sugar, valued at lis 6d, the Property of the Colonial SUgar Refining Company. B thSi ef rf et6CtiVMC -i [ahon said that some thefts of sugar had been going on at King's Wharf, and, in g consequence several cas.s of sugar- were specially maikeo. On November 5, one of the marked cases" was missed, and accused was suspected At first he denied any knowledge of the missing case, but afterwards he confessed to taking it. Accused r** a , ma " „ who had not bee n before the Court for 10 years; he had a young wife ana four young children. The detective trusted that instead of imprisonment the Bench would see fit to impose a line. Mr. W. M. Alexander also urged the magistrate to impose a fine instead of imprisonment. He said that Anderson had had a, lot of sickness u> his family lately and had been strongly tempted. Another point in his favour was that for 10 years ho had led a reformed life. The case, said Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M presented some difficulty in that it was usual to punish the offence with imprisonment, and in this instance he did not wish to send Anderson to gaol. There was one difference that helped him, and that was that the accused was a carter and not a wharf lumper. This distinction was not one of criminality, but one of position, and enabled him to inflict a fine.

Anderson wan thereupon ordered to pay a fine of £5 and costs.

INTEMPERANCE.

A first offender was fined 5s on a cbarir. of drunkenness. Henry McMahon, preferring a fine to a prohibition order, was fined 10?. Two offences, drunkenness and committing an indecent act, were preferred against Charles F. Hillman, who was found guilty and mulcted for 30s on the second charge. • " Convicted and fined 10s," was the magistrate's decision after hearing evidence in the case of Alexander Fraser, who was charged with being disorderly while drunk.

MISCELLANEOUS. An old woman, Norah Williams, against whom there were no fewer than 197 previous convictions, begged for "just this chance, after being found guilty of beincr a rogu fe and vagabond. "I have been working very hard lately/' she pleaded. and was only spending my own money." In view the fact that she had not been in the- Courts for 18 months, Mr. Frazer decided to give her the chance she asked for. He convicted her and ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon Also, he issued a prohibition order against her and required her to keep away from Auckland for 12 months. Alexander Reid, who is serving a sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labour, was convicted and discharged on a charge of knowingly, on October 9. accompanying into an hot>el a person against whom a prohibition order was in operation.

Two Mount Eden residents, Walter B. lon, and the Rev. Edgar Blamires. were each fined 5s and costs for riding bicycles on footpaths within Mount Frlcn Barough. Thomas Hayes, a Mount Albert lipid was ordered to pay 17s 6d costs orra similar charge.

Frr driving vehicles across a 'city intersection at other fbnri a waging pace, James Keane and Thomas Higgins were each fined IQi, with 7s costs.

On a charge of leaving a veh'cle unattended in Karan<robane Bond on October 15, without enabling a wheel, Bobt. Harvey was fined 5s and costs 7s.