MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YOUNG MAN IN. TROUBLE FALSE PRETENCES AND THEFT A young man named Robert . Honry Connolly, who was arrested by Detective' Bailey at Trentham on Saturday; on two; charges {of false pretences and";one of theft, pleaded guilS7 to the same'before Mr.': D. G. 1 A. Cooper, S.M., in the ; Court yesterday morning,; The' offcrioea'.: which were committed in the Auckland' district,, were: (I), Obtain E^nk : by means offalse prptenbes;in June; (2) obtaining a watcK" : '(valiio lis.) from', the' same by the "same means, and (3) on July 7, at Silverdale, stealing 411b. of kauri gum, valued at £2 lis:'. 3d;, from Alexander John Hatfield;- '- v't -. • :

Phief-Deteotivo Broberg explained that' Connolly , had been before > tho Court previously. In July last in' Albany bo had .represented himself , to' be a nurseryman; and hail boarded with Fenk, and had ss. and also tho natch during that time; later .ho. hadgone to another district, and had stolen tho kauri gum from a camp and disposed-of it to a storekeeper. . Ao-' cused- had £6 lis.- Bd. : on him when arrested ' . v - .

The 'imposed a sentence' of three days, andjordored. ss; to bo refunded.;ui respect,to the first charge;, seven days,' and-lls;: to be refunded on the second charge; and 14 daya, and £2 lis. ; 3d. to be refunded on tho third, the. senteoioes to bo cumulative. -

:■'■ DRINK HIS TROUBLE. 'Drink was responsible for tie'.appear.; nnce of George M'Cauley,charged/ with the /theft of certain articles „of."-a;'total value of £44'65. fr'om- ; 'Adeline/Dtidwig •' Mr. B. F. O'Leary, who ajppeareiiyf or : accused, asked the Magistrate to order accused to come up for sentence when called upon. Thothefta, he. said, were the result of a drinking bout, , while accused had just been discharged from the Hospital and was in a very poor stdto of~ health. In view of the facts stated tho Magistrate convicted and discharged M'Caiilcy, on condition that he pnid £2 Bs. 6(1., the .'balanco of inonoy on tho stolen articles.