POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT BY A BUSHMAN. : / TWELVE MONTHS' PROBATION. ? The theft of a suitcase and con tenia, valued at £15, was admitted by a bushman, Michael George McMollen, aged 68, in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M. In a statement to Detective Barling accused admitted ;havVf~. ■ ing taken the suitcase from a porch near a shop in Hobson Street, where ! it had <f, bern left by the owner, a girL Accused ■ ' had been drinking. ■ - ;? .t- : N 7 Chief Detective McUveney said that ■-! property valued at £10 had been v recov- " " ered. Accused had not previously, been . convicted of dishonesty. His trouble was drink. Be had been drinking methy- '■*>>'' lated spirits about the time of the offence. Accused was admitted to probation for 12 months, ordered to make restitu- ! tion,- £5, with costs, £2 17s, '"and; to abstain from liquor. He was warned i that if he got drunk within 12 months be would be sent to gaol for six months. :. 'i&. IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT. 'g $ "This man obtained good employment inealr Hobsomville and then stole the ! articles," said Sergeant Rowell i when "},'■'-..,{ j William Hutchinson Knox, aged < 37, ■ ad- :*r- ! mitted the theft of various articles valued ,\ ■■ |at £1 12s 6d. Accused was sentenced Ito one month'.') hard labour. ;■ ,