POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFTS BY A WOMAN. CHANCE TO LEAVE DOMINION. Tliero was a short sitting of the Polic© Court on Saturday, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M. A woman named Dorothy O'Donovan, 28, admitted having stolen a blouse valued at 22s 6d, the property of Leanna Molntyre, and a handbag and including the sum of £1 6s. It was stated that accused secured the blouse from a shop in Queen Street, but was detained by the woman in charge. She was asked to put it back and having done so, she to a friend's house in Grafton Road. While her friend was oufc of the room she fftolo her handbag and went away. The handbag she left at a shop in Grey Lynn, where a constable found it. Mr. Singer, for accused, said he thought drink was the cause of her offences. Ho asked that the woman be sent to her friends in Australia. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence in one month's time, if she had not left the country in the meantime. Roy Marchessauilt, 22 years, an American, was charged with being drunk and unlawfully using a motor-cycle valued a & £150, the property of George Bell. Accused said he did not remember tho occurrence. He was fined. £5 and 10s costs, , Robert Warnock, 43, appeared on charges of drunkenness and assaulting a constablo in the execution of his duty. The magistrate oonvicted and dischargee him on the first, charge and fined him £5 for the assault. • w , Two old offenders, Charles Mcb-eahan and Ernest Cox, the former with 58 previous convictions against him arid o latter with 28, were charged with fightillg in the street. They pleaded guilty and were fined 20s eachA remand .-until Wednesday was granted in tho case of Trevor OBnen 30 who was charged with stealing a pair of boots valued at 255, the property of Henry Reason. Bail was fixed at