MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2317, 26 November 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

•;.■.'. .police ... : THEFTS FROM LODGERS Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, 5.M , ., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. ■ ■ • T ' iAa old gray-haired man named Jonn Power had his 76th conviction for theft registered against him.' "If anything is done, old Power has done it," despairingly remarked '-'old Power" as he heard the evidence. It apeared froni the evidence that for months past he has been the terror of Courtenay Place shopkeepers, because, of his raids on goods in and about the doorways of the various shops. On Tuesday, Power received two. sentences.of seven days each for theft, yesterday, the charge -against mm was stealing three shirts, valued at 13s, 6d., from Wni. Craighead. As usual, he pleaded not guilty. I met a friend," he said, "and he saw my shirt, and said 'Your shirt', is frayed, Power, old man; I'll get you'another,', that is how I got the shirts." * x u, " Power was sentenced to a lurtner seven days' imprisonment. Jessie , Nixon, a middle-aged woman, pleaded guilty to stealing a jewel-caee and contents- of a total value of £4 6s. from Alice Winifred Broadbent. _. . Chief-Detective Broberg explained that accused had committed the theft from the room of a fellow-lodger at a boardinghouse. . Most of.'the articles she had pledged .at the pawnbrokers in a fictitious name. The remaining jewellery had , since been recovered. Ac-, cuse'd had been twice before the . Court previously for other offences. A sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment was imposed. , . . . . A' young woman, named May iobin, pleaded guilty to charges' of drunkenness and using obscene language. Mr, W. Perry; who appeared on her behalf, said that accused had undergone _ an operation some months . ago, and since then she had appeared eccentric Counsel asked for leniency, said said that defendant wo\ild«have a prohibition order , taken out against her. Inspector'fieridrey said tho case was a. particularly bad one, as the language had ,beeu used in front of .some children at a public school. On'the first charge, defendant was convicted and discharged,; and on the second fined £2, with witnesses' expenses 45., or one.months imprisonment. A prohibition order was - : also taken out against her; James M'Guire, who entered the room ■ of a fellow-lodger, Frederick Wilson, on Tuesday night, and stole half a dozen aprons and later sold them, was charged with the theft of Bame. A fine of 10s. or three daye' imprisonment was.imposed. _ • ... ~,'■■ David Henderson, some time back a' farmer at Blenheim, was sentenced to six months' 'imprisonment for indecent .exposure. ■.Mγ. W. Perry appeared on his behalf. . „,.,'.,-. ~ For drunkenness, , Patrick Coakley was fined 20s. or three days 'imprisonment, James M'Cutcheon and Hugh M'Kegney each fined 10s. or forty-eight hours'' imprisonment. One first offender who failed'to appear waa fined the amount of his bail (10s.).