CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22044, 29 August 1933, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

Monday, August 28. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. A man, publication of whose name was suppressed, was charged with using obscene language.—The accused agreed to take out a prohibition order against himself, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within the next 12 months. FALSE STATEMENT. The adjourned case in which Leonard George Robertson was charged with making a false statement under the Unemployment Act was resumed. —The defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within the next 12 months. MAINTENANCE ORDERS. John Darling was charged with default of a maintenance order, the arrears of which, to March 17 last, amounted to £219 10s.—Mr C. J. L. White appeared for the complainant.—The arrears over £3O were remitted, and the defendant was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at Paparua, the warrant to be suspended so long as the defendant paid £7 on or before September 4 and £2 5s per week off the arrears until they were paid. Robert Smith was charged with being in default of a maintenance order, the arrears to June 13 last amounting to £3 7s Gd.—After hearing evidence regarding the defendant’s circumstances, the magistrate remitted the arrears to date over £5, and the case was adjourned for three months in order to enable the defendant to discover his business position. The defendant was ordered to pay 10s per week in the meantime. BREAKING AND ENTERING. Lionel Roland Robert Horn was charged with the theft of a purse and £3 10s in money, of a total value of £5 s s, from the house of Margaret Ainsley, Opoho, and with breaking and entering the house of George Percival Lake, Cargill road, and stealing £BO in notes. — Chief Detective Young conducted the case for the police, and Mr O. G. Stevens appeared for the accused. —Margaret Ainsley said that she went to bed about 9.40 on the night of July 24 and left her purse, containing £3 10s in money and a number of papers, on a table beside her bed. The purse was there next morning. She was employed afterwards in her dairy outside, and came back to the house about 6.15 a.m. and had a cup of tea. She heard a door bang in the passage, and on making an examination she found the front door wide open. She then went to her bedroom and found the purse and its contents missing. The accused had worked for her at one time. —To Mr Stevens: She was very surprised when she knew it was the accused who had taken the purse. She had always felt very sorry for the accused. He had helped her husband on their milk round, and she had always found him honest,—George Percival Lake, a canister maker, residing at Cargill road, said that he left his home at 7.30 on the morning of April 8 to go to work. All the doors and windows of his house were locked. He returned home in the afternoon and found that a pane of glass had been removed from a back room window. He found a sum of £BO in notes had been stolen from his trousers pocket. There were eight £lO notes in hie pocket. He had known the accused since he was seven years old.—To Mr Stevens: Horn had had a meal in his house. —Constable Ogilvie said he was relieving at Cromwell on August 10. He interviewed the accused, and he made a statement admitting the theft of money from Mrs Ainsley’s house. He also made a statement regarding the theft of money from Mr Lake’s house. The accused had said he had taken £8 from Mr Lake’s house.—To Mr Stevens: The accused had said he had- taken £8 from the house. He said he had taken the money because he was desperately hard up and desperately hungry.—Detective Marsh said he had interviewed the accused, and he had taken him to some bush near the Northern Cemetery where they had recovered the papers which had been in the purse. Witness was unable to find the purse. He also interviewed the in regard to the amount of money which had been taken from Lake’s house, and he had admitted taking £BO and also four pennies. None of the money had been recovei-ed. —The accused pleaded guilty to each charge, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The accused also pleaded guilty to a charge of, at Gore, stealing the sum of 18s Gd, the property of some person or persons nnknown. —His Worship said this charge could stand over until the accused had been dealt with on the major charge. AFFILIATION PROCEEDINGS.

John Walter Craigie was proceeded against on a complaint for affiliation and maintenance orders. —The complainant was represented by Mr C. J. L. White, and Mr- A. C. Hanlon, K.C., and Mr E. J. Anderson appeared for the defendant. —All witnesses were ordered out of court. —Mr White said that the girl was 18 years of age and the defendant 19. The parties resided at Mosgiel, and had known each other for some years. The girl had given birth to a child in June of this year. She claimed that Craigie was the "father of the child—After lengthy evidence had been heard the case was adjourned for one week.