MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2918, 2 November 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THEFT FROM S.S. DURHAM. • Mr. L. G. lloid, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. A waterside worker named 'l'homas Pollock pleaded guilty to the theft of one bottle of,whisky valued at ss. 6d., from 'the s.s. Durham, the property of the New Zealand and African Steam Ship Company. , According to Inspector Hendrey, the accused, who was working on the steamer, was: seen to leave the vessel with something bulky about his waist. When stopped and searched lie • was found to have the bottle of'whisky in his possession. l ! Ho then managed to get away- frojn the wharf, and was eliased by an'officer of the. vessel and another as far as the Thorndon,Railway Station, where the accused managed to board an. incoming troop,train and. so got back to the Lambton Station. When arrested he gave the police.every assistance. Pollock • was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. THEFT BY A DRIVER, Joseph Devlin, represented by Mr. H. F:> O'Leary,' pleaded guilty to tljo chef t of £8, and another charge of theft of £2.,75. M. :_was withdrawn. Chief Detective Boddprn' stated that accused had beeii employed by the New Zealand Automatic Bakeries Company, Ltd., as driver ofa bread delivery cart, tie received certain pioqeys from various customers of the company, and failed to account for same. There was nothing known against the accused, who-was a married man with three children. Mr. O'Leary, on behalf of accused, said the man had been indulging jn a drinking bout, and the tlieft s were committed while lie lyas suffering from the effects of alcohol. The friewjs of the accused were willing to refund the stolen money if given a. little time, and ssggested that accused should bo ordered to come lip for sentence when called upon, and a prohibition order issued against him. The Magistrate said that thefts from employers could not he lightly treated, and fined accußcd £5, ordered the refund of the stolen, money, and furtlier ordered a prohibition order to bo issued against accused. The line and refund were to be paid at the late of £1 per •week. .. . . , OTHER CASES. . A remand to Monday was granted in the case' of Henry Albert Pinniger, charged with the theft of a shirt valued' at Gs., the. property .of pome person unknown, and Gershoum Simmons, charged with assaulting John Marshall and Reginald Pierro on October 14, so as to cause them actual bodily harm was further remanded to November 8. Inspector .Hendrey explained that Marshall was practically out of danger, and Pierro was recovering.

For insobriety, (four first offenders were convicted and discharged. Michael Gray Iliggins, against whom there were two previous convictions, and who was going into camp immediately, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Edwin Cook Tompkinson, with one previous conviction, was lined £1.