WOMAN CAUGHT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 4

WOMAN CAUGHT

Ringing Of Cash Register Bell THEFT CHARGES FOLLOW •• Take this as a final warning,” Mr 0. D Willis, S.M., told Molly Bissett, aged 34, a cook, when she appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged on two informations with the theft of £5 13s in money, the property of Henry Patrick Dunne. The accused, who admitted the offences, was granted probation for a period of two years, a special condition being that she is to make restitution of the amount involved. Chief Detective Hall said the accused had been employed as a cook at the Kensington Hotel, Mr Dunne being the licensee. He found that various sums had been missing from the. cash register in the bar and he set a trap and at 7.3 U that, morning he heard the bell of the cash register ring and the accused was caught. The sum of £5 had been taken previously and 13s that morning. The accused had not been In trouble before. “ I want my name kept out of the papers,” the accused pleaded. The magistrate: You cannot expect the court to do that when you have embarked on a course of thieving. In passing sentence, the magistrate said he would make no order for suppressing the accused’s name. Remanded Henry Walton Phillips, aged 35, a labourer, for whom .Mr C. J. L. White appeared, was remanded until tomorrow on three charges of false pretences and a charge of the breach of his probation order. No Driver’s Licence When Herman Sidney Larkins was charged with having no driver's licence it was pointed out by Senior Sergeant Devlin that the defendant had apparently been driving without a licence for five years. This prompted the magistrate to ask the senior sergeant whether the licence fees could not be made retrospective and he undertook to make inquiries. On the charge of 1 having no driver s licence the defendant, who admitted the offence, was fined £5, with costs (12s), and on a charge of driving a load which was not securely fastened, he was fined £2 10s, with costs (10s). For having no driver’s licence, Keith Samuel Hopkins was fined 20s with costs (10s), and he was fined a similar amount for having no warrant of fitness Other Offences William Alexander Anderson, who admitted a charge of driving without due care and attention, was ordered to pay court costs (16s) and witnesses's expenses (£5 19s). The magistrate said that in view of the heavy costs he would not impose a fine. On a similar charge, Gordon Noel Jack was fined £2 with costs (13s). lan Robert Caldow for parking over a fire plug was fined 20s with costs (10s). A fine of £2. with costs (10s) was imposed on Leonard John Rankin on a charge of failing to give way at a pedestrian crossing. For crossing a railway line when it was not clear, Frederick Leonard Duncan was fined 10s with costs (10s).