MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16911, 9 December 1922, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

TO-DAY’S CASES. CHRISTCHURCH. (Before Mr H. Y. Widdowson. S.M.) NAME SUPPRESSED. A young married man pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing twenty-eight , tanned rabbit skins from a Woolston lanuerv. Senior-Detective T. Gibson said that i sixteen of the skins, valued at £1 16s, ■ bad not been recovered. The accused said he wa.s under the i influence of liquor when he committed j the theft. When asked explain j v hero the missing skins were, he replied that he had been tanning skins for a .nan. but he spoiled them, and the spoilt ones ha-1 to Ik* replaced. The accused was convicted and oidered to come up for sentence any time within twelve months: In addition the value of the unrecovered r.kins had to he made good. An application made by the accused for the suppression of his name was granted, on the ground that publication would hinder him in making a fresh start. REMANDED. William Henry Smith and Walter Frazer Sheriff Harneiss were charged that on December 8 they stole a man’s hat. valued at 25s The accused were remanded to appear on Monday. JUVENILE COURT A youth of sixteen years pleaded guilty to tin* theft of a microphone, the property of the Postmaster-General. Senior-Detective Gibson said that th* microphone was taken from the receiver of a slot telephone. The accused had been experimenting in wireless with a number of older boys, and lie hail given the microphone to one of them. The Magistrate said the case was a very serious one, but the boy had borne a good character. ’The case would be adjourned for twelve months, the* accused to remain under the supervision of the Probation Officer. A girl, agcrl fourteen years, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a gold chain and locket valued at £7 and £2 in money. Senior-Detective Gibson said that tin property was stolen from the girl’s employer. The gold chain had been lost and the money spent. On one occasion ‘'lie- had enganred a box at the Opera House, and the lemainder of the money went also in amusements. The case was adjourned for a year, the cirl meantime to remain under the | absolute control of the Probation I Officer. LYTTELTON. ! (Before Messrs F. Knight. J.P.. and F. G. Norton, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. | Peter Shingleton and Charles Wil- * i;ams. two second offenders, were each fined 10s. in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. THREE OFFENCES Robert Archibald ,King. on a charge oi drunkenness, was! fined 10s in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for using obscene language he was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and for assaulting Daniel Vance he Mas sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent.