POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 13

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGE AGAINST GIRL. REFORMATIVE DETENTION. "This girl was dominated bv the man in the case," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, &.M.. in the Police Court yesterday, when Kathleen Marl ay, aged 22, domestic, was charger! with being idle and disorderly, and with obtaining £lO 2s and £4 12s 8d by means of two valueless cheques. The man referred to was Clifford Nelson Double, who was committed to the Supreme Court on Thursday for sentence on charges of breaking and entering and theft, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the terms to be cumulative, on each of two charges of fraudulently issuing two valueless cheques. Major Annie Gordon, of the Salvation Army, said she was willing to give the girl a chance, and would have tier admitted to the Salvation Army Home. On the charge of boing idle and disorderly, accused was sentenced to two years' reformative detention, the first two months to be spent in the Salvation Army Home. On the other two charges she was convicted and discharged. A case in which Walter Charles McDonald, aged 18, labourer, was charged with the theft of a wat-ch and chain and a ring, valued 8t £6, at Henderson, in December, 1929, was adjourned for six months, restitution of £3 to be made. The theft of cutlery valued at 9s 6d from a city restaurant was admitted by William Marsden, and a charge of receiving the goods, knowing them to have been stolen, was denied by Madeline Margaret Smitt. Each accused was fined £2, or seven days' imprisonment.