MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THEFTS FROM HOTHTj BOABDERS. A vo.ing man named Arthur "WalterHenderson, who had ■ ten .sentenced earlier in the week for theft, appeared before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court on baturday, and pleaded guilty to two charges of theft from tlio Pier Hotel: (1) lheffc of a brooch, valued at £] 10 s.. belonging to' "Winnie Hogatij ft)ul (2) theft of a ant. valued at from Mary M Gwigan. Chief Detective Boddam said that the thefts had been committed from rooms in the Pier Hotel. Accused had been going about systematically robbing boarders at hotels, and other charges were pending against him. On the first charge a sentence of seven days' imprisonment was imposed on the accused, and on the second, 0110 months imprisonment, the sentences to lie con : current, but fo commence at the expiration of the sentence he is at present undergoing. Henderson was remanded till Wednesday on a further charge of stealing various articles. Tamed at £8, tlio property of Jomes Russell, from tne dwelling of George Stevenson, OTHER CASES. • John Saul was formally convicted for drunkenness, and fined «£5, in default one month's imprisonment, for using obscene language. . , Thos. Turvey was fined. 405., m tICKuUt seven (leys' detention oil a _ charge of drunkenness, and penalised similarly for indeceucy. ■ . For using obscene language Arthur Self was fined .£3, in default ono mouth 8 gaol and formally conviotcd for drunkenFor drunkenness Peter Mulcahy was fined 405., in default seven days imprisonment; Daniel MUantlle was finetl .£3 or one month, and John Harrison 10s. or ■13 homs. In the Police Court at Carterton ■ on Friday unoming, Charics William and Eva Groves, his irifo, were charred that they did, on July 29, at Wellington. obtain goods of aud from Harry Lenhart,' to the value of Is. Gd. and iE2 18s. Gd. in cash, by means of a valueless chenue. They were remauded'td appear at Wei lington to-day.