POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT OF STOCKINGS. OFFENCE BY PAINTER. "I do nor. know what made me take them," said Sydney Clifford Fabcr, aged 28, painter, in the Polico Court yestor- v dav. in pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a pair of stockings valued at 14s lid, on May 8. Sub-Inspector Shanah.m said accused went about, gathering old iron with bis father. Tho owner of the stockings, Mrs. Ivcno Maud Asliton, had done, some washing and had hung several articles oil the clothesline. She heard a knock at the door, but did riot bother to answer it when she saw it was a hawker. She later missed the stockings, and informed the police, who intercepted accused. An- ! other pair of stockings and a /pair of j gloves were later found in a sack in tho possession of accused. "See that you cancel his father's licence," said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, in imposing a line of £5, or 14 days' imprisonment. An application for time to pay was refused. A charge'of stealing cigarettes, matches and chocolates, valued at £1 4s 4d, the property of the Lake View Hall committee/ at Ngiu'ato, was admitted by George Frederick Ross, aged 21, labourer. He was remanded until Tuesday. A line of £2 and costs was imposed on Eric Samuel Porter, for behaving in a disorderly manner in Karangahapo Road recently. Police evidence showed thai accused, who did not appear, had, in company with another man,'disturbed a religious meeting, consisting mainly of elderly women. Accused held up a pound note and shouted, ''This is my God." He bad evidently been drinking.