MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES

THEFT OF OVERCOATS

Mr. E. Page, S.M., deajt with th« police business ut the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Theft of two overcoats, valued at .Cll, tlio property of Donald MacLeay, was the nature o£ the charge preferred against an old olfendei' named Michael Kioly. Sub-Inspector Emerson slated that Urn accused entered tho shop of Rosenberg and Co., motor mechanics, Manners Street, and requested to 6ee tho manager, who was out. Tho accused then entered tho office and took two overcoats which \vere. hanging there. The accused then wandered off to Te Avo Boardinghousn, where he was found with the coats. The defendant, who had 12 previous convictions, said that he hart been drinking heavily and had only recently been released from tho Koto Hon. Inebriates Home. He asked to be returned to tin: homo, as drink was the cause of tho trouble. . His Worship sent tho accused to gaol for three months, as he had been previously convicted for theft. .THREE YEARS' PROBATION. A young man .appeared for sentence* on. a -charge' of indecency. His. Worship said that |ie had received a report from tho Probation Officer. The defendant was a man who was' not stronsr physically. He would be admitted to nrobation for a neriod of three years, during which timo ho must nbstnin from intoxicating liquor. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for tho accused. ALLEGED FALSE PRETRXCKS. s Upon the application of Chief ortive Boddam. a voung man named Frederick Emanuel Kimmiss was remanded till November 1' on a chai-RC ot .bavins? obtained from William Henry Nevi fl Amns a motor-car: valued at ...410, »T means of a false pretence. Bail was refused. INSOBRIETY. For drunkenness. Minnie Pomerov was fined 15s'.. and John DviscMl was fined 10s. One first offender was fined 10s. CIVILMSiNESS • MLEffED SHEEP WORRYING. Before Mr. E. Page. SX. Andrew Robertson, farmer, of JTnppv Valley, m;o----eecdcd against Frank Chart** Cox. liarn Me.ielen, a"d Wilbam Ernest Dallov.' claiming .£l7 Ins.. the value of inne sheep and. three lambs alWd to liavo be?'n worried and killed .Y*' 11 ! ( '°?? """j' cd bv defendants. Pfoiifliff also claimed damages caused by the dogs to a flo-k of 410 ewes. The easo' for the plaintiff was that on August '"i' two allceed to be tho property'of the' defendants werr• worryj„e the sheep en his Ration. Pam •IT found that in, one of the paddock-, tl n sheen had been considerably worried and Jmil.n.l.W-a WIW- nrocnr„d a riflf and shot feoth.dw*. He took the cellars off. ,with tlio ( ln<r vc'slrer, ascertained who the owners of'the do« were, and then instituted the •TtiTSSS-fpftrK Cox and Jfenrlen wer? iiv'ividnn h recvon='hle or Jointly liable, they had be n case was that tho do"'alleir»d to belong to him hn<. been taken h»ek bv Meacleu vho nrevim. U owned it, and w harlK>« rn d it up- < m the time th" offence was alleged to have 1) ( .»n committed. , \t thi< stnge proceedings weie adionrned til' nest. ' Mr ti M. F'ndl-v nnnearcd fOi tie »' . l'Jv "H* IT 1" OTf^TV Mr.'A.' Jf. Saldc for Dalley. ,

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