MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

.. THEFT OF JEWELLERY. Mr. W. G. Riddoll, S.M., presided in tbe Magistrate's Court yesterday. Charles Kent and William Albert de Vale Dudley were jointly, charged with breaking and entering the premises of Nathan Phillips, second-hand dealer, G6 Taranaki Street, and stealing thore.from; jowollery of. the value of £7 ss. According to the evidence called by Inspector Marsack, 'who conducted the

prosecution, the plate-glass window ofthe shop was brolien, and. the articles of jewellery abstracted. Kent was discovered selling, the, goods in i secondhand shop, and was arrested. Dudley was arrested later.

In his statement, Kent said that he mot Dudley, on the wharf.. Dudley showed him a ring, and Kerit undersell it. .He.was later to meot Dudley. ( . , Dudley stated that when walking down Taranaki Street he saw that the window of the second-hand dealer broken, and, being without money, he; took tho articles mentioned in the charge. Kent pleaded not guilty, and' was committed to tho Supreme Court for 1 trial, and Dudley, who pleaded guilty, was committed for sentence. THEFT OF MOTOR-CYCLES. \ Percy Eriekson, who" had already' pleaded guilty to a number of charges of theft of motor-cycles, added another to tho list by admitting the theft of a Douglas motor-cycle on November 18 last, at Spreydon. Ho was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. OTHER CASES. • For insobriety, William Conrick was fined'2os., in default three days' imprisonment. William Kinnaird ■ Cliisliolm, who had been • remanded for a. .week, having been found helplessly drunk on tho Queen's Wharf, was ordered to pay 17s. 6d. medical expenses. Walter Riley, alias Watson, who, while intoxicated, disturbed a sorvice which was being conducted- by the Salvation Army, was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. . Richardson M'Cloy, for wnom Sir. I'. H. Putnam appeared, was. .charged with assaulting Alice Jones, a board-inghouse-keeper, represented by Mr. P. W. Jackson. The accused pleaded guilty. Mr. P. W.\Jackson, counsel for plaintiff, asked, that M'Cloy be bound over to keep the peace. He said that tho accused had used considerable violence towards the woman, who was really in terror of the man. M'Cloy was a boarder at plaintiff's house. The Magistrate ordered M'Cloy to keep the peace for one year, and fixed security at £25 in M'Cloy's ojvn recognisance, and one surety of £25. Charles Kont, convictcd of ship desertion', was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment, and Mat Leppals, on a similar oharge, was remanded for a week. .