CITY POLICE COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6749, 22 February 1909, Page 8

CITY POLICE COURT

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20. (Before Air W. G. Riddell, S.M.) PENGUIN FUND ROBBED. John William Campbell was placed in the dock to answer two charges of false pretences, and one of drunkenness. Ho pleaded guilty to all three charges, admitting that he had obtained by false pretences from .Frederick Spencer 'Taylor, cakes to the value of IDs (id, and from one, 0. Stockdale, concert tickets to tho value of £2 2s, the property of J. 0. Williamson. The Chicf-Doteotivo said accused wont to Air 1 Stockdale, a clerk in tile employ of Mr Harold Ashton, the manager of Air d. 0. Williamson’s “Red Alill” Company, and asked for tickets for tho Penguin relief fund matinee. Ho said lie had been sent by Air Smith, of Taranaki street, whoso customers wore asking tor the tickets. He got six 2s tickets, and shortly afterwards came back for another half-dozen and six 3s tickets. Nothing was heard of him until a day or two later, when he was found drunk, with five tickets left, ad no money. Tho accused was released from gaol on February 18th, and the same day defrauded Mr Taylor, a confectioner. Ho , rang up Air Taylor on the telephone and priced his calces. He then ordered 19s 6d worth, saying that lie and sorno friends were getting up a surprise party. He asked that the cakes be sent to No. o, Tennyson street. This was done, hut the messenger brought them back, saying that the people in that house knew nothing about the cakes. The accused then rang up again, saying that a mistake had boon made, and that he would take delivery of tho cakes if they were taken to the Cambridge Hotel. Mr Taylor sent the cakes there, and the accused took them away. For defrauding Air Taylor, Ilia Worship sentenced the accused to two months’ imprisonment, and for obtaining tho tickets, to three months’ imprisonment, the sentences to be cumulative. For drunkenness, the accused was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours. lAIPORTUNING. Kitty Hopkins, alias Sanders, and Maude Johnson, pleaded not guilty to a charge of importuning in Taranaki street. After hearing the evidence of the police witnesses, his Worship convicted the accused, each of whom h’e remanded for sentence until Wednesday next, to allow the police to make inquiries as to their past record.