CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22286, 12 June 1934, Page 5

CITY POLICE COURT

Mojtdat, June 11. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.H.) DRUNKENNESS. Charles William Chapman, who had one previous conviction for the same offence within six months, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness. William George Riddle, who had been in the cells over the week-end, was fined 2s 6d, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. A first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. BREAKING AND ENTERING ALLEGED. •• John Lancelot Gladstone, James Cavin Rutherford, and William Jack Waddell were charged with breaking arid entering the shop of William'' Storrie Goodicy and stealing £3 10s in money and tobacco and cigarettes to the .value of £25. Chief Detective Ypupg asked for a further remand for. a week, as fingerprint evidence was required. —Mr A. Duncan,'who represented Waddell, asked for hail for his client. —Chief 'DetectiveYoung said that two shops—Goodlcy’s and Sherriff’s —had been broken;, into. ■ Waddell and Rutherford, would Ido facedwith two charges,, whilst one charge ; would bo preferred, against Gladstone, A considerable quantity of tobacco and cigarettes had been stolen from Goodley’s shop, and only two-thirds had been re-covered—one-third from Rutherford and one-third from -Waddell, Unless Gladstone pleaded guilty they - would have to. bring '.fingerprint evidence against him.-4-The feriaand ■ was • -granted, bail being refused. . . • : THEFT FROM HOSPITAL. , . George Henry Theodore pleaded guilty to a charge, of stealing a quantity of butter, ham. and milk, valued at 2s 3d, the property of the Otago Hospital Board. —Chief Detective Young said that for the past eight years The accused had been employed as a,.cook by the Otago Hospital Board.' Sortie months ago the authorities began to miss foodstuffs from the kitchen, and a watch was kept, with the result: that: the • accused- was found, .leaving the premises with a pound of butter, a quantity of ham, and a bottle of milk in his possession. The accused and the other members of the staff were warned as recently as last Saturday that unless the thefts of ‘ foodstuffs ceased, drastic action would- be taken. The theft was a particularly mean one as it deprived the patients in the hospital of their full rations. The accused Was in a good position and there had been no reason why he should steal. He had been before the court in 1923 on two charges of theft, and, was fined ’ £2O.- —The magistrate said that The accused had received a warning from the authorities. A feature of the theft was that, suspicion would fall on innocent persons. The , accused would be sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. . ■ -MAINTENANCE. Ernest Victor Wajdren w.as charged with the disobedience of a maintenance order, in respect of his -wife,'The arrears to April ■ 8 being £4 16s Gd. Thc.dc-; fendant • applied for a remission'of; the arrears under the order, and his wife made application for a variation, of the order. Mr G. T. , Baylee; appeared for the complainant and Mr J.' B. Thbinson for the defendant.—The arrears' having been paid the information was dismissed, the application for the remission of arrears was struck out, and the. application for a variation of the order was dismissed.