MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Pieces of musifi had been missed at intervals from a city nnisie shop, and' on Tuesday afternoon tho manager watched ' a young man who had entered the shop. Tho outcomo was that the- young men was charged at the Magistrate's Court .yesterday, before Mr. W. G. Riddel!, S.M., .with the theft, of twenty pieces oi' music valued at "30s' ,

The Magistrate admonished accused I regarding the folfy of stteh acts, remarking that a mania for music did- not' justify theft.. Ho-would bcx. convicted and ordered to coinc ti'i>- for sentence when called upen, on condition tliat ho paid tho valup of the stolen • music sheets. . - For theft of a tvnteli and comb, valued at Bs. 6d., the property of Thomns Coffcy, Mary Barclay was convicted and ordered to come u& for sentence when called upon. Owen Gladstone Swan and Thomas ■M'Xamarn:'wcre retna«dod, until Friday on a charge of having assaulted and robbed Win. Benjamin GocWardof 15s. Sivnn was nlso , " remanded till Friday on ■ a charge of being an'idle and disorderly person, who ceiiserted with reputed thieves.

Henry Francis M'llray, alias Campbell, was remanded till May 13, ok a charge of having attempted to tab some person .unknowl,!.' Pot insobriety, Annie 31'G.ftitii, Charles Baker, mid Thomas Gordon Lennox were cadi fined 50s. Six first offenders wore leniently dealt with.