MAGISTERIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13520, 15 February 1908, Page 2

MAGISTERIAL

Ti.M.uir. i-i:i;i;r.\i:v i-itii. 1000s. (B-f-.r- Mr C. A. Wr..y, .5..M.) I!V!,.\W CASKS. Cn.ig.- Fi.'-lb-ad «'»••' charged with driving a Tiioliir car along Stiitlniil .-Heel, ill. ;i "gie.u- r pa--- than six miles ;m hour, aim with trussing ill-.' inU is- cli>m 'f Staffed an>l (J.-iirsr.f t-lr.vts at mole tliim four mil-s an li-.ur. He pleaded K«ilty. but c.ti.l h- li;i-* Ili • lar well miiK-r control. Sub ii£.-p cT-.r Green >aiil there- w-as m> i|ii.sti-m a.> t>. tin- speed anil til-- i.UVik-.-s occurred ill 10 o'clock on Satimlav nidit. "hen fast driving was ilai;g<-n>us. 'Hi- two charges Were prac-lic.-iliv one otrelice. 11 li Woir.hip inllict.-l a fill-.- of lCsalii citts mi ill-- tir.-l charge, ami ordered a convictio:! ami discharge- l" '->■ recorded <ii tli- .-:-:.-c«iid. At'-the same time h- advi-e-.l defendant to accitotoin himself to the regulation speeds. THEFT. Oscar Kusub. alia* Mima and Moellar, was charged with having litolcn. botwK.ii the 4th and 9ih February. 11 bag.-- of oats-, \ allied at £6 Its, the property of J. Mick-K-;.n. S-.adnwn. He elected to Ik- dealt with Minimarily. and pleaded guilty. Sub insp:cior Green ciiid acccued was a liauker. travelling round the country, b-.iving sheepskins etc The cats stolen were stacked where they had been thrashed, and accused had been camped near 11:-, lv when they disappeared. He had subsequently isold the oa'.is in Timaru. There were other convictions recorded against accused, two for theft at Rangiora in 1904 and one for theft at Timaru in .May last. The missing oats were traced by Constable Csborn and accused was arrested on Thursday night bv Detective Fitzgerald, when lie had in his potse.-sicn a. revolver, gun and dagger. Accused was certainly a man who ihould b? kept in custody for some time. Accused stated that, lie never used his weapons. He purchased them when in America, and had retained them ever since.

His Worship considered that accused's paut record was ;i bad one, and lie should rot bi dealt with so leniently as hitherto. He sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment.