THE COUTTS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17113, 7 April 1921, Page 11

THE COUTTS.

■ MAGISTERIAL. WEDNESDAY. /n*fore U» Messrs J. Brown, J.P.'s.) DRUKKENNESS. . to-fe fast offender wa* feed ss. * THEFT. „.,- McGinn, aged «, P>aded guilty riaree of drunkenness. She was also si*l with having stolen a lady's coat ££* d »t'39s 6d, tho propnty of Catherine *•*«» » second-hand dealer \%s* P p J. Amodeo, who for *ii?L)eus*d, said that she was in a muddled ?&/with drink at the time 01 the alleged ■ißr. She picked up the coat with the miKfan of trytesr it on, and ehe had no ickZ&o »' stealing the coat or leaving tho 'So without seeing the proprietor. Accused was convicted and discharged for i-Bkeimesß, and was convicted and senEjed to one mouth's imprisonment on tho fan of theft. ASMS ACT. (fcorge Albert Belcher was charged with laving an unregistered.automatic revolver in, *jf possesion, contrary to tho Arm» Act, 1920. On the application of the police a jjuund was granted for a week. A SERIOUS CHARGE. George I'oland Stratford, aged. S2, was chaffed with having committed rape on a girl aged IGJ years, who was employed as a domestic in his house. Messrs F. D. Sargent jad J. Cracroft Wilaon appeared for the acem&. After evidence for the prosecution Jud been hoard the accused pleaded not gnilty and reserved his defence. He waa committed for trial, bail being allowed, eelf in i 250 *nd one surety of .£250.

IN OTHER PLACES. ALLEGED FORGERY OF TOTALISATOR TICKETS. (PKSS ASSOCIATION TELEORAK.) WKL.UNGTO.V, April C. A young man named Robert Fox appeared at the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of having forged three totalisator tickets ut Trentham racecourse on January 24th. The evidence showed that accused, at tho conclusion of tho seventh race, tendered at » payment window of the totalisator three ti tickets on the winner. The clerk thought the ticket* were not genuine, and asked the man to wait while he consulted a superior officer. The tickets were pronounced to be forgeries, but when the clerk returned the mm- had. disappeared. Tho tickets thomlelves were genuine, but the proper number had been erased and.the number of the winner substituted. Accused, who was subsequently arrested on tho Riccarton racecoutm, was identified by a man who stood behind him in the race when accused presented 'the allegedly forged tickets. Accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail beiw? allowed— Hit'in £1(0, and ono surety of £SO.