POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20605, 2 July 1930, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

OFFENCES BY BLACKSMITH. TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. Stated by the police to havo been touring the country on a motor-cyclo which he obtained under a hire-purchase agreement in Hastings, Clarence Nelson John Bovey, aged 27, blacksmith, was convicted in tho Police Court yesterday 'on charges of being idle and disorderly, and of damaging two penny-in-the-slot locks, valued at £3 10s, the property of the Auckland City Council, at Point Chevalier, on Juno 23. Mr. Noblo entered pleas of not guilty. Tlio custodian of the park at Point Chevalier said there would not bo more than 6d in the Jocks when they wero forced open. Ho noticed a motor-cycle in some tea-tree in tho park, and included in tho gear which was with it were a chisel and a knife. Accused was commencing to ride away on the cycle when witness returned with a constable. Tho chisel fiLted tho marks of the locks, while thero wero specks of brass on its edge. Counsel contended, -that there was no proof that accused had -Jieen responsible for tho damage. ■ ; The magistrate, Mr. Ft Iv. Hunt, sentenced Bovey to ono month's imprisonment on the first charge, discharging him on tlio other.

"This girl does not appreciate a helping hand and 1 strongly recommend that she should be sent to Borstal in her own interests," said the probation officer, Major Gordon, when Gwennyth McAuley, aged .18, was charged with failing to observe the her releaso on probation. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said accused had been before (ho Court on June 20 and had been-;placed on probation for two years, a condition being that she should remain in the care i)f the Salvation Army. She had loft -the Army home on Saturday. "I have already given her a said the magistrate, who ordered her detention in a Borstal institution for two years.