MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16908, 6 December 1922, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. * (Before Mr V. H. Christian. J.P., anil Mr J. W. Baty, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. A statutory first offender vrai fined j 10s. in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, j A YOUNG MAN’S LAPSE. George Gough. aged twenty-one years, was charged that on May 2 at Christchurch he stole £8 14s,in money, a camera, a diamond ring, a suit of pyjamas, a wristlet watch, a fountain pen. two razors, a leather suit case, of a total value of £32. the property o 1 George Dixon. The accused was remanded to December I*3. Gough pleaded. guilty to other cl larges of having obtained £3 from .lames Shearer by falsely representing that his father had died and left him £7OOO. and of stealing £1 2s Gd. Mr F. I). Sargent, who appeared for the accused, said that he was a hard working young man. who had had to go out and earn living at a very early age. Recently he had been a porter at the Criterion Hotel in Blenheim. and the proprietor spoke highly of his character. Tlie accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon TN AGAIN 1 ‘ This man is a prisoner out «»n probation.” said Sub-Inspector J. K. Simpson when Robert Bell vvas charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that he imposed upon George Longford Minifie by means „ f a valueless cheque, and obtained taxi rides to the value of £lO The Sub-Inspector said that Minifie was a taxi owner in Kaiapoi. and the accused had hired him for sundry journeys between Rangiora and Christchurch. The cheque was not immediately accepted and the accused later admitted that it was valueless. The accused was sentenced, to sij£ months' imprisonment. , REMANDED | James Bracken, was charged that on ; April 5 he broke and . entered the | premises of William Allen and stole i goods valued at £.{. I The accused was remanded to appear next Wednesday. CAUGHT RED HANDED. Margaret M’Dermott was charged that on December 1 she stole 18s 3d from the person of .John Mullins. Constable Lougeson said that on the night of December 1 he was told off to keep watch on a house in a lane off Sv Asaph Street which was suspected of l»eing a brothel. He was looking through a window and saw the accused standing up and a man named Mullins lying in a drunken sleep on the floor. Another woman, named Mills, was also in the room. hut she was drunk. The accused knelt down beside Mullins, put her hand in his 1 1 0 users pocket and took out a handful of silver, which the witness estimated to be about fifteen shillings, and placed it in her stocking. He vent for Sergeant Packer, who was near the house and they -entered it. The accused had gone away, but they found her down the street and she vras a Treated. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. TAKING SWANS’ EGGS. R. L- Donald, a youth, pleaded guilty to a charge that on November 18, at Lake Elloemere, he was in pcMwMSMOn of S*-»Tl*’ oggfi without siuthority. ’ Mr K G. Arob»r, who appeared f rath. North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, said it »m not wished to prow for a Mcrere penalty, but still tho society the hoy to he taught a lesson. , . Tl»e defesUfaw rrnt, fined 10s and post*.