POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16822, 12 April 1918, Page 6

POLICE COURT NEWS.

IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT. Charges of stealing a suit of clothes, valued at £2 17s 6d, and 10s in money, were admitted by (Jeorge Robinson in tho Polico Court before Mr. F. V. Fraser, S.M., yesterday. Sub-Inspector WohJman said accused, who had a bad record, stole the suit from a dealer's door and sold it to another dealer. At the police station lie was standing at tho counter while a drunken man was being searched. It was I found that 10s was missing from the latter's possessions, and when Robinson was searched it was found he had taken tho money. Accused was sentenced to six 1 months' imprisonment and ordered to be detainod for reformative treatment for not more than three years. Patrick Kavanagh was fined £1 for a breach of his prohibition order. Stanley Hildreth, who, whon driving a motorcycle past a stationary tramcar at a greater speed thai) five miles an hour, knocked down a pedestrian and rendered him unconscious, was fined 10s and 9s costs. As a result of complaints that some of those attending the Opera Home were making use of the Market Square as a convenience a watch was kept by plain-clothes constables. Ten men wore consequently charged with committing a nuisance. SubInspector Wnhlman said it was not suggested that the defendants were not decent men, but the cases had been brought with a v : -\v to impressing on the public that the->. eets must not be used as a convenience. There was a convenience in the vicinity, but it was too small to cope with the rush of men at the theatre interval. The cases might have the effect of bringing before the authorities the need for increased accommodation. Defendants were fined 10s and lis costs, except one, the charge against whom was dismissed.