POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20823, 16 March 1931, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TWO MEN SENT TO PRISON

ANOTHER CASE REMANDED

A Russian, Otto Jfil>o, aged 50. labourer, was charged in the Police Court, on Saturday with drunkenness and with the theft of a pair of hoots, valued at 19s 6d, and two cakes of soap. He pleaded not guilty. Constable Campbell said that on Friday afternoon lie saw accused on the Prince's Wharf with a new pair of boots in bis hand. Accused was detained as ho was unable to slate from whom he had obtained the hoots, which wero too small to fit him and were later identified as having Iteen stolen from a Queen Street shop. Accused was also unable to account satisfactorily for two cakes of soap found in his possession. The magistrate, Mr. L'\ K. Hunt, sentenced .Tabo, who was stated to have two previous convictions for theft, to one month's imprisonment. "Here is another man the country is keeping," said the magistrate, when James Martin O'Hrien aged 44, labourer, was charged with being idle and disorderly, in that he placed, himself in a public place for the purpose of begging alms. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was stated by Detective-Sergeant Kelly to haw accosted people in Queen Street on Friday afternoon. He had 19 previous convict ions and liver! on charity. Sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed.

A charge of unlawfully using an instrument on or about December 21 last was preferred against Alfred Theodore Douglas Woodlcy, aged 46. waterside worker, in the Police Court on Saturday. Accused was remanded for a week at. tho request of the police. No application was made for bail.