YESTERDAY'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 18 April 1913, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S COURT.

The following portion of "Law Reports" was held over ir. yesterday's issue:— GROCER BOY IN TROUBLE. Norman William Scambury, a grocer's message boy at Kilbirnie, was charged with having stoleu a diamond and sapphire ring, valued at £6 Gs., belonging to Annie Headland. The ring was said to have been taken from Mrs. Headland's house at Kilbirnie on March 18. Scambury was also charged with having stolen £'o from the ■house of Henry Travcrs at Kilbirnie on April 5; and £6 12s. worth of articles from the dwelling of Mary Jones at Kilbirnie on March 81. The boy pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. It appeared that he had committed the "thefts when on his rounds delivering groceries. The people robbed were out at the lime that In called with their parcels. MISSING £5 NOTE. * William Mundy was charged with the theft of £o from Thomas Hunter. Mr. F. P. Kelly appeared for Mundy, who pleaded not guilty. Detective Sweeney, of Palmorston North, deposed that lie had arrested Mundy at I'almerston North, and had found £7 Bs. 2d. in his possession. Among this money was ti .£5 note. No. 077.'i0, of the Bank of Australasia. He- did not'know if this correspond with the number of the stolen note. Mundv was then remanded till April 21 in order that a witness might be brought from Auckland. Bail (£W) wus allowed. CHARGE OF ASSAULT. Fitzgerald Cla::k was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of his having assaulted Edward Dohcrty, so as to cause him bodily harm. .The case is fully reported in another column. OTHER CASES. For insobriety, Philip Sharkey was finded =61, and John Patrick Coyle 10s. Charles Edward Malin was fined jC3 for Ifvving used certain language on the Queen's AVharf. Percv Taylor was sentenced to two weeks''imprisonment for having deserted from the steamer Turakina on February 5.