CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 12

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, June 18. (Before Air J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) Drunkenness. —Peter Bourko pleaded guilty to this offence, and was fined itos, or 48 hours’ imprisonment. Evading Railway Fare.—Artnur Joseph Hoiiery was charged with travelling between" Dunedin and Invercargill on April 1 without having paid his faro of 15s. Mr Neill appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty—Senior-sergeant Mathjoson stated that " ITcnery had been asked for his address and had given an incorrect one. Accused’had worked on the railway, and knew how he stood in the matter. He had been arrested and brought up from Invercargill the previous morning in connection with maintenance matters. The police had had considerable difficulty in finding accused.Mr Neill stated that accused had been served with a summons He, had been working at Vvaipori, and had left to attend tho court. On tho train ho had said tha. he would pay when a claim was made on him He had discovered that his mother had missed the train, and had given as his address the name of a woman who was coming from Timaru to take up a boarding establishment in _ Dunedin.. that woman, unknown to him, had given up the idea of keeping the hoarding house, and had gone bark to Timaru. Having been on the railway, he would know that if he handed in his name ho would bo entitled to travcl.-The Magistrate directed that the charge bo amended to attempting to evade payment,” and fined defendant £3 on a first charge, and £2 on a scco2nd; under which ho was charged with evading navment of faro on the railway on April 2, " 4 . , An Unfortunate Lapse.— A young girl named Doris Roberta Harwood pleaded giiiltv to two charges of theft. Tho first was "committed on May 8 at Dunedin, and Ihe articles stolen consisted of wearing anparol, valued at £2 13s, belonging to Lily Eveloigh; and the second offence, committed on the same date, included a number of articles valued at 11a fid, the property of the New Zealand Government.-Senior-sergeant Mathieson stated that the girl was an inmate ot the Industrial School ami got out on May 8. and it was then she had stolen the articles menlionod. She had been arrested at Glcnavy three weeks later. She had given the police considerable trouble, and had run away from the Industrial School on several occasions.—The Matron of the Industrial School stated that tho girl had absconded from, the school three times, and had a had record in town. She was 19 years old last January, and had been in the school since she was 17 years of age.—The Magistrate expressed the view that the proper course to pursue wa s to detain the girl for reformative) treatment. She would be detained for reformative treatment on the first charge for three years, and a conviction would ho entered up against her in the second case. Not a Second-hand Dealer.—Alary 0. Paterson pleaded not guilty to having, on Alay 28, at Dunedin, carried on business as a second-hand dealer without being licensed, — Ernest Wm. Hoffman. 16 years of ago, stated that he had disposed of some gramophone records to accused. She did not take them the first time he called, but took them on tho second occasion ho went there. She bought them for 3s 9th Accused had not asked any questions. Nothing was said about a license. Arc-used had said not to tell anyone else she had bought the records, and to say thev had been brought round the back. Witness thought it was a second-hand shop.—lnspnetor King gave evidence that accused's name did not apnear on tho regisler as a second-hand dealer. An application for a second-hand dealer’s license bad been refused, and also one to Mr Paterson.—Defective Hart said that accused had denied paving anything for tho records. She said an exchange had been made.—Accused stated that she did not buy the records.— The Alagistrnte said there was sufficient evidence to show that accused had carried on the business of a second-hand dealer. Shr-, would be fined 20s, and costs (7s).