POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18356, 23 March 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFTS BY YOUNG "WOMAN,

FIVE YEARS' PROBATION.

Three charges of having stolen quantities of clothing, valued at £10, and one charge of having stolen crockery, valued (affc £3, were preferred against Gladys Edenborough, aged 28, in tho Police Court yestorday before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M. In a statement made to Acting-Deteo-tivo Nalder, accused admitted the offences. She had left most of the clothing at tho railway station luggage office. Some she had regained, with tho intention of posting it to the owner. Chief-Detective Mcllveney said that accused had been in trouble before. She had been sentenced to three years' reformative treatment, but had been released after a few months. The magistrate placed accused on probation for five years. " I think it is useless, but I will give her a chance," said Mr. Poynton.

VAGRANT IMPRISONED. "We cannot let you starve like the other poor man," said Mr. Poynton when James Edgar Steer, aged 52, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person. Evidence was given that accused had been about the streets for two or three weeks. Ho had done no work and had no visible means of support. " Really," added the magistrate, my duty is to send you to the Supreme Court. You have several previous convictions. Three months' imprisonment."

THEFT BY MARRIED WOMAN. A young married woman with a baby in her arms, Hilda Oorbarw, admitted having stolen £3 2s in money, the property of the Auckland Gas Company, In a statement, accused admitted opening her gas meter and taking money from it. The money had since been paid back. She took it because she needed it for the baby. Mr. Poynton : You have done very wrong to have taken the money, and if you are brought up again you will have to be imprisoned. Accused was convicted and discharged.

AFFILIATION ORDER SOUGHT. An application for an affiliation order against Frederick Shortland, aged 25 (Mr. Fraer), was adjourned for a week. It was stated that accused had promised to marry the girl concerned, but had since gone back on his statement. That was the reason for ms arrest. Bail was fixed at £50,

CASES ARISING OUT OF DRINK. A seaman from the steamer Las Vegaa, Charles Joseph Sedgbree, aged 22, was fined £2 for being disorderly while drunk Another man from the same steamer, Jack Michael Harris, was charged with drunkenness and with having damaged the side curtain of a motor-car to the extent of 255. The accused, who was said to have challenged all and stndry to a fight while he was wearing practically no clothing, was convicted and discharged, but ordered to pay. the damages. George Brown, aged 49, was fined £3 for indecency, and convicted and discharged for drunkenness. He said he could not remember anything of the offence. A fine of 80s was imposed on Arthur McKeefre, aged 35, who was stated to have made a nuisance of himself in the street while drunk. A fourth offender for drunkenness, John Matherson, aged 36, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. SERIOUS CHARGE AT ONEHUNGA. William Lacy, a single man, 60 years of age, was charged before Mr. J. Laking, J.P., at Onehunga yesterday afternoon with indecently assaulting three girls, aged seven, nine, and ten years respectively. The accused, who was remanded for a week, was allowed bail in the sum of £100 in his own recognisance and two sureties Tof £50 each.