MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Evidence was taken against John Millanta and Frank Alfred Barton, who were alleged to have stolen 18 fowls and a leg of pork from the, rear ot Nicholas Bertane's restaurant in Courtenay Place. The evidence showed tliat the fowls had disappeared from Bertane's restaurant, and then had been offered for sale again to the owner by the two accused. To allow accused to call evidence for their defence the case was adjourned to to-day. Accused were also charged with receiving tlie property in question knowing the same to have been stolen. May Wells, a young woman, was remanded for a week in the custody of the Probation Officer on a charge of escaping from the Salvation Army Home. James Henry Murray was fined £1, in default three days' imprisonment, for refusing to leave licensed promises when requested to do so, and was convicted and discharged for insobriety.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2498, 26 June 1915, Page 14
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164MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2498, 26 June 1915, Page 14
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