POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20239, 26 April 1929, Page 19

POLICE COURT NEWS.

t TWO CHARGES OF THEFT. * < ■■ ■ '' OFFENDER SENT TO PRISON. Sentence of six months' imprison merit was imposed on William James Smith, who was charged in tho Police Court on Wednesday with tho theft of an overcoat, valued at £8 Bs, tho property of Ernest Boy Hood, and with stealing a suitcase valued at 355, the property of Charles Wise. .Asked to plead, accused said; "I did not steal tho things, but I sold them." Chief-Detective Hammond said tho suitcase was stolen from outside a shop, and accused had' sold it within 15 minutes of Ihe theft. He had taken the overcoat from a motor-car and this also was sold Within quarter of an hour of the theft. Accused said a man. had given him the articles to sell. "That story is no good ; it is too old," eaici tho magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt. Charges of stealing engine fittings, of a total value of £SO, the property of Frederick Appleton, between June 1 and Juno 17, 1928, were preferred against , John Francis McCarthy, aged 37, an engineer. McCarthy elected to be tried in the Supremo Court, and was remanded to appear on May 2. Stating that the offenco had been committed by another man, William Baden Powell Ai-res, aged 29, a labourer, denied having been drunk in Victoria Street on Saturday evening and having committed m.schief by breaking a glass window of the value of £3. He was convicted on the first charge and convicted and ordered to pay/the damage on the second, in addition trt costs totalling £2, being allowed a week in which to pay the money.

On a charge of assault, Albert William Maxwell, aged 47, a labourer, was fined £l. On a charge of loitering in a public place. Leslie John Walding, described by the Newton police as "the leader of the Newton hOlligan.%" was fined £2. It was stated accused had refused to move on when requested by a sergeant, and the magistrate warned accused that the next time he defied the police he would be sent to prison. OFFENCES DUE TO DRINK. CHARGES HEARD YESTERDAY. / Pleading guilty, Phyllis Hunt, aged 24, a domestic, and Frederick Nickless, aged 24, a labourer, were sentenced in the Police Court yesterday to seven days' imprisonment on charges of being disorderly while drunk. A disturbance in a lane off Hobson Street early yesterday morning resulted in the appearance of Angus Mackay, aged 39, a seaman, who was charged with being drunk and with commiting mischief by damaging a gate valued at ss. At the suggestion' of the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, accused' said he would take out a prohibition order, and ho was fined 5s on the first charge and ordered to pay the damage on the second. A pica of not guilty on a charge of assault was entered by Edward trancis Smith, aged 32, a labourer, who admitted heing drunk in Gore Street. The magistrate imposed fines of £1 and 5s on the second and first charges respectively.