MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 17 April 1913, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.MJBURGLAR'S AGILITY, ' SCALES HIGH SPIKED FENCE, CAUGHT BY POLICE. ) l)RVid "ii'wlii appeared! on"'remand ,la tho Magistrate's (Jourt yesterday, charged} with having stolen .£58,135. worth'of. fur«i and other goods from the'shop of Louisa Smith, furrier,. Manners Street.' Mr. liV P.' Kelly appeared for Irwin. ' Constablo Hammond stated that shortljj after 2 o'clock on' the morning of Apn\ 8, ho was in company , with Constabla Grant', on duty near the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. Ha saw accused about there, and watched him. Accused presently dis«' appeared, and shortly afterwards witness saw the curtains in Mrs. Smith's shop move, and then ho saw something'taken from the window. Through a plate-glass window ho watched tho man put a bas out through a back window, and get out through tho window after it. Constable 'Grant guarded the Willis Street exit,,, while witness waited in Manners 1 Street. Irwin caine out into Manuel's Street.and witness arrested hiiu. Irwin resisted awhile, but Constablo Grant came to wit-. , ncss's assistance, and the' suspect waif to the Maimers Street Police Stat ( ■tion. . ■ . ' ! - Irwin pleaded guilty, and was commit* ted to tho Supreme Court for sentence..- , , Tho ■ polico stated during tho hearing that Irwin, though not a young man, must be , particularly active, as ono.'of! the ' undertakings ho ovorcamo was tho, scaling of ait cight-fcet fence which hat] spikes oh the .top.

JEWELLERY' ROBBERIES. A. nineteen-year-old boy, Glyn Iro:f Hazel, hppeared on four charges of breaks ing and. .entering—two in Wellington, ono at Levin, arid ouo at Masterton. Threo of tho charges concerned tlio theft of jewellery. rTho. -Masterton charge .was that Hazel had broken and entered theshop of Alexander , Henderson on the -o£ March'3o, and stolen a; 80 worth of jewellery.- At Levin,' eight days previously,;it was alleged that lie broke. and entered Frederick \TosCph Glackiii's shftp and stolo JCISO worth of jewellery.' Jewellery'.to tho valuo of .£l3 lCs. was also said to have been stolen by. accused; from tlie shop of Charles George Sherwood, in Willis Street, Wellington, between March ...1 and March 3. lie was further .charged with tho breakage and entry of tho .Wcsla port' Coal Company's counting-house,-i:a Wellington, froiri which ho'> stole a sil'la handkerchief belonging to William Tcbbfi. Only, tlio tw,o Wellington charges werq proceeded vritll, nnd to those. Hazel pleads ed guilty, and was . committed to tho Supreme Court for.sentence,.. Respecting tlio Masterton case,, Hazel was remanded till Monday," and on the Levin charge he was remanded till Thuriw day liext. . CHARGE OF RECEIVING. : Thoniis Da'rr6ch was remanded tilt April 23 cn a charge of his Laving re. ceived from Hazel ,£SO worth'. of jewel* lery. Mr. P. P. Kelly,.who appeared for Dar+ roch, asked for' bail, winch was granted" in tho sum of .£Bo.'

YOUNG MAN DUPED. Leonard Harrison pleaded not guilty, I*l a. charge of his having obtained JCI 17s< from Roland Daysh by false pretences. Roland Daysh, a young man, stated. in! cvidenco that, lie met Harrison in Man-* ners Street on April 10, and Harrison asked him for money to send ft telegram away respecting the Palmcrston Isorth. races. Harrison offered to, in return, "put him .on to a good thing." > Later, 11 arrison . requested witness to him .CI to put, hi Big Blast for hiu). Tliia sum ho handed Harrison, and. ho. also lent him' ss. ,Cd. "to buy some rabbits -to take hoine." In the afternoon tho twtt met. again, and Harrison said - that .Biff Blast; had .won. and that..ho was going to put. witness on to "another ijood thin*. Witness thereupon .gavo Harrison' all th« money, he had jvi|h liim—lK lid. Harvison : hod'then gone, into a hotel, saying that he was going'to got tho dividend, but hud iiot returned. Tho man,hod tnld^vitn^s'that lie was Leu Price, ar,d that, lie "(rniiied Mr. Smavt's hones." AVnltei Smart,. of Wellington, pawn, broker. the owner of. racehorses, stated . I.liat, on April, 10 there were races nt i'uliiicritbn ■ No.iih, but, his .horse Big, Blast was not. racing that dny—was not even nominated. . . , . . Harrison, was, ««hk'nted. to one monU)'#, imprisonment.. He- protested;that he'hiid not. ■ intended to wrong'Days.h; ho hid staked tho money and-.lost. ■ . ... , Chief Detective Biobcrg told: tliß uruft that, tlwi prisoner had seven aliases arid seven previous convictions.'