POLICE COURT NEWS
OFFENCE BY LABOURER THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT A labourer, Raymond Woodward, aged 33 (Mr. Aekins), pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday io falsely representing that a demand of a second exchange bank draft was a valid order. Detective-Sergeant MeHugh said accused presented the draft to the licensee of a hotel in Hobson Street, and the licensee foolishly gave accused £5. Accused bad previously been before the Court. Counsel said accused's story was that he was given the draft by another man to cash. Ho was under the influence of liquor at the time. "[ cannot treat him leniently in view of his other convictions," said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, who imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment. A packer, Rupert Charles McGaw, aged 33, was charged with being disorderly while drunk in Karangahape Road on Saturday and with refusing to leave the premises of a hotel when requested by the licensee. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was fined £l, in default threo days' imprisonment. Cecilia Mount Stewart Nicholson, domestic, aged 53, was charged with being found without lawful excuse on premises at 217 A Hobson Street. The poliro evidence was that a constablo found accused at the premises, which were vacant, and she then was slightly under the influence of liquor. A sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21552, 25 July 1933, Page 12
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