MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

BREAD CARTER'S THEFTS j HORSERACING THE CAUSE ' A plea of guilty was entered by James Ford Blackio, a bread carter, who was charged with failing to account for various sums of money he received for his employers, M'Parland Bros. The charges against Blackie were: (1) On November 14, 1914, and March 19, 1915, having received £1 15s. 3d. from Sarah Lewin, on terms requiring him to account for the same to M'i'arland Bros., did fraudulently omit to do so; (2) in thosaine manner failing to account for £1(3 3s. Id., received from divers persons, from October 7, 11)14, to March 19, 1915; (3). failing to account for £14 from October 7 to March 19. Chief-Detective Boddam said that almost ever since accused had been cmployed by M'i'arland Bros he had been carrying on a systematic thieving from his employers. In some cases to cover up his deficiencies ho had booked bread to fictitious customers. Accused was a single man, and in receipt of £2 Bs. weekly. "What got you into this fix, Blackie?" inquired the Magistrate. "Horse-racing," was the brief rejoinder. Tlio Magistrate remarked on the systematic and almost cuto manner' in which accused had gone about his thefts, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment on the first charge and six months' on each of the others, the sentences to be concurrent. FINED £25 FOR. OPIUM SMUGGLING A Chinese seaman off the Knight Templar, Lain Sang, pleaded guilty to a- charge of smuggling opium. A "line of £25, with costs 17s. 6d., in default seven days' imprisonment, was imposed. OTHER OASES. John Thomson, a trooper, was chargcd: (1) With committing a breach of the peace on Thorndon Railway Sta- p tion; (2) resisting Constable Fahey ; 1 (3) using obsceno language. He pleaded g not guilty, and was remanded to April 8 D, pending evidence to be called in re- i spect to the case. | James Rowlands Staples was remand- I ed to April 9, on a charge of deserting I his wife, Edith Staples, in New South H Wales. The remand was made pending I the arrival of a police escort from New j South Wales. | A seaman off the Westmeath, James g Trainor, was sent to gaol for seven days on a charge of deserting from that vessel. He was also ordered to pay Court costs, 75., and be placed on beard his rcssol when it sails. Wm. Tyler, who was found at night without excuse in the Mount Cook School, was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. I Joseph Thurston was fined £2, in do 9 fault seven days' imprisonment, for us- g ing obscene language. Accused was re- B rnanded till April 9 on a cliarge of being I idle and disorderly. _ I For drunkenness, May Gibbons and Timothy Donovan were each fined £2, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment, and James Routledge was fined 205., in default three days' imprisonment. Two first offenders were dealt with. Kate Ryan (prohibited) was remanded to April 9 for curative treatment on a jj charge of drunkenness |