MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 304, 12 September 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

HOTEL PORTER'S THEFT'

SENTENCE OP THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT ''This man gives way to drink, and that is largely the causc of Ins present trouble;" said Senior-Sergeant \\uns at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in a case in which a young man named Ernest Joseph Stanley Dockrill, described as an hotel porter, pleaded pilty before Sir. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to having stolen, on August 12, a suitcase, two suits, and a quantity ot clothing, valued at £13 10s., the property of William Piatt. It* appeared that accused was formerly a porter at a local hotel, and it was while he was so employed that lie stole the goods, which he sold io a second-hand dealer. fc'cnior-Sergeant Willis stated 'that, accused had been fined £3 at Mastorton, on February 6, for thett. Dockrill was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. THEFT OF SUGAR, James Wilson Moncrieff, for whom Mr. T. W. liislop appeared, pleaded auiitv to stealing on September 5, at Wellington, a 701b. bag of sugar, valued at 175., the property of Ippocrates Jia--18 Mr?" Hislop said accused could not explain the sudden impulse which prompted him to take the sugar. He was married, and had two children, ami was proceeding to camp nest m jloncrieff was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. . CHARGE OF ASSAULT. Walter Savage was remanded for a week on a charge of having assaulted Philip M'Laughlin so as to cause him aotuhl bodily harm. l-ij.ii Sunior-Sorgeanli "Willis stated thatho understood tho two men were bavin; an altercation on Tuesday, when Jil'LiDghlin was knocked down, and sustained a broken rib. Bail was allowed, self in the sum of £25, or one surety of £25. ALLEGED BIGAMY. Charles 'William Groves, a soldier, was charged that oil July 24 last, at Wellington, he committed bigamy by go'iit; through a form of marriage with Poarl Alice Wring, when he had -alrjady been married to Eva Phoebe Rossiter, who .was still alive. On the application of the police accused was rc-'.nsnded until September 18. In yesterday's list of undefended civil cases it was stated that judgment by default was given at the Magistrate's Court against W. Hamlin in favour of the Makara County Council. This was an error, due to a clerical mistake on the part of an officer of the Court.