POLICE COURT
SATURDAY’S SITTING. THIEF SENT TO GAOL. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., occupied the Bench at a sitting in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning, and dealt with the following offenders:— Seven first offenders fear drunkenness were dealt with in the usual manner. Harry Lord, who made his third appearance for drunkenness, was fined INDECENCY PUNISHED. John Hughee, who had committed an indecens act in the Opera House lane on Friday whilst in a state of insobriety, was fined amounts totalling 30s. “THE MYSTERIOUS MAN.” “He claims to have met that mys.terious man whom nobody knows/’ said Chief-Detective Ward when Thomas Saidler came before His Worship to answer a charge of stealing a carpenter’s rules, pliers, and apanner, to the total value of 34a fid, and belonging to James Brooks Hulbert. Tho chief detective stated that Constable Hunt had recently noticed that the name of a man had appeared on llie books of a number af secondhand dealers, and on each occasion he had riven a different name. On making inquiries it was found that the accused had stolen goods from another secondhand dealer and sold them again. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10848, 14 March 1921, Page 7
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