POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 17

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT FROM BLIND PERSON. SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. " Accused is a professional thief," said Detective-Sergeant Kelly in tho Police Court yesterday, when William Caple, aged 49, labourer, was charged with stealing a typewriter belonging to an inmate of the Biind Institute. " I have nothing to say in favour of a man who will steal from a bliud person, and this offence is particularly contemptible," Mi-. Kelly added. Accused went to the institute, where his son was, and while there he stole the typewriter. Apart from that, he had also stolen the typewriter of his own blind son, but he was not charged with that offence. Caple had been before tho Court on previous occasions. Senfence of six months' imprisonment was passed by the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt. A charge of stealing lead, valued at £l6 18s, belonging to the Auckland Gas Company, at Devonport, on Thursday night, was preferred against Cyril Stephen Mutch, aged 20, farm hand, and John Francis McCarthy, aged 27, labourer. It was stated that the accused were arrested at 1.5 yesterday morning. On the application of tho police, they wero remanded until next Tuesday. Found by a detective to be in possession of two stolen blankets, William James Smith, aged 23, labourer, was arrested in fho city on Thursday afternoon. Charged with theft of tho blankets, owned by James Anderson, of Auckland, who valued them at 15s, accused pleaded guilty. " I think lie was muddled a little with drink," said Sub-Inspector McCarthy. Accused was fined £2, and was allowed seven days in which to pay. Arrested early on Thursday morning. William Ernest Stuart, aged 29, labourer, was charged with breaking and entering the house of Henry C. Hay, at Titirangi, on April 11, and stealing articles valued at £1 4s. Accused was remanded to appear next Friday. A disturbance in a Ponsonby tramcar was responsible for tho appearance of two young men, John Peckham and George Riley. On a charge of using obscene language, Pcckham was fined £3, while Riley was fined a similar sum for using insulting language. Following upon an incident in a cafe, Joseph South, middle-aged, was charged fin summons with assaulting an eldeily man. Accused pleaded not, guilty, saving that the man was a friend of his, and I hat he merely pushed him. All light, said the magistrate. "I will order you only to pay the costs. Do not push him