HAMILTON POLICE COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16435, 11 January 1917, Page 7

HAMILTON POLICE COURT.

SEVERN CASES HEARD.

[by TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Wednesday. At the Police Court to-day, George Kinnaird was charged, before Mr. E. Rawson, S.M., with obtaining by false pretences from Mary Rogers, of Hamilton, a certain dooument, namely, a lease of certain native land at Ongarue. The evidence showed that accused represented himself as a. private detective, and agreed to collect arrears of rent of a section. Ho thus obtained possession of the lease, with which he disappeared in July last, and was not heard of until he was arrested at Te Karaka. Accused reserved his defence, and was committed for trial.

A young man, George W. A. Phillips, with a police record, was committed to gaol for six months for obtaining £20 from a native at Otorohanga by falsely representing that his (accused's) wife had paid that sura to a Hamilton undertaker for a coffin for a native chief.

James Frank William Poole and Daniel Leonard Morris, were charged with the theft of a rug and suit-case, with its contents, of the aggregate value of £30, the property of Florence Chilcott, of Te Awamutu. Evidence was given that Mr. and Mrs. Chilcott left a motor-car at the entrance to a right-of-way in tho main street, and on returning found that the articles had been abstracted. One of the accused was observed in the vicinity, and the other subsequently emerged from the right-of-way, where the missing articles were discovered subsequently, intact. Poole pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Morris pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial.