MAGISTRATE'S COURT
SATURDAY'S SITTING. ! A first offender for drunkenness, who failed to make an appearance before Mr W. G. Riddell at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday was ordered to forfeit the amount of his bail, 10s. Found guilty of begging alms in Grey' street, Edwin Stanilaus Sand brook was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. "A FIRST-CLASS THIEF.” "This man is a first-class hotel thief,”
remarked Detective Nuttall, referring to a young Maori answering to the name of Timi Piti, who appeared on three charges of theft o fmoney, clothing, and toilet requisites, valued at £4 4s 4d, the property of Frank Doherty and Thomas Albert Jones. An admission, had been made, continued tho detective to Detective Murray, the defendant declaring that he had risen early and stolen the property from his fellow-boarders at the Leviathan Hotel. Accused had a List of previous convictions aftaitut his name. A sentence of three months' imprisonment was passed by the Magistrate on the first charge, and a further month on each of the other offences, sentence to be concurrent.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11662, 29 October 1923, Page 4
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181MAGISTRATE'S COURT New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11662, 29 October 1923, Page 4
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