POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

FALSE PRETENCES ALLEGED. TROUBLE OVER CHEQUES. Seven charges of having obtained goods . by false pretences and one of having obtained credit by fraud were preferred against Albert Charles Lamb (Mr. Singer), aged 33, in the Police Court yesterday. Four of the charges were heard before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., and three before Messrs. A* J. Stratford and J. ■ Ziman, J.P.'s. The total value of the j goods, which were principally clothing, was £105 6s. Evidence was given that accused traded tinder the name of A. C. Wilson. To one person who supplied him with goods ho had represented that he had a business at Taumarunui Several witnesses from whom accused bad obtained goods stalled that the cheques they received had been returned from the bank marked not sufficient funds. Evidence was . given that t accused [ did not have a business at Tauinarunui, but that he had a banking account there. Accused had -, . been told by one person to whom he had ';• given a ' cheque that it had been dishonoured by the bank. He had issued other cheques subsequently. Detective Meiklejohn stated that when questioned about cheques he had issued, accused said it had not been brought to his notice that a certain cheque was valueless. He could not keep account of his balance at the bank and was frequently telegraphing amounts to his credit. Lengthy evidence regarding the transactions was takeu, proceedings occupying the greater part of the day. •■ , '"' ''"V "'*:' ,: Accused pleaded not guilty to the seven charges heard and was committed to th/; Supreme Court for trial. ._ ii# On the charge of having, at Wellington., obtained clothing valued at £28 6s 6d by false pretences accused was remanded to -■•,, appear at Wellington. .'„■,.•;;- S-~-;\ ■;-■:,' -,,.;-■■ • x A further charge against, accused of :. .. having used abusive language to .a customs officer 'Was adjourned for a week. VAGRANT SENT TO GAOL. ,;', Three months' imprisonment was ilmposed on Francis Burke, aged 56, _ who was charged with being an incorrigible ' ■ rogue in that he had insufficient lawful means of support and had been previously > convicted of vagrancy. It was stated that t,■; he had been hanging round the town for some weeks. He would not work. He had been warned to get out of town. -•■'>;• Accused said he. suffered from, leg trouble and could not work. .: .. ', ■; 's • TWO MEN IN A SEED. l ' Two men, Jclan Thomas Sheldon, aged 51, arid Michael Martin, aged 60, who had been found by night in a shed in Ansae Avenue, denied charges of vagrancy. : The former said he was con- : ; stants in work and the reason for his being in the shed was that be bad been drunk. The other man said he had been working last week. Both were convicted nnd_discharged. ' ■■/" ■ ']''•' OFFENCE! IN TITS STREET. - A fine of £3, In default seven | days* imprisonment, was imposed on Hugh Curne, aged 23, for having committed an indecent act in Wyndham Street..; : J - SERIOUS OFFENCE ALLEGED. A charge of halving indecently assaulted a single, woman aged 36 was preferred against Clinton Frederick Wells (Mr. - Singer). The offence was alleged to have been committed in a bedroom at a boarding house. Accused pleaded not gr.ilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. ~,'•-......._.. '. . ■