MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. W. G. Riddeli; S.M., preside dat the Magistrate's Court on and dealt with tho police.'cases. ~:.•' Georßina Perrett was-sentenced to six months' imprisonment for loitering ■in Tory Street for immoral purposes.'. ■ George W. Jackson, .with two previous convictions against his'name, was fined £2 for insobriety.

; Benjamin Sherman was charged with the theft of a picture, valued, at 155., the property of Robert Cann, and with the theft of a brief-bag, valued at 155., the property of John Turnbull. ■ The prisoner went into the Caledonian Hotel and took ifche picture from tho wall. On the first charge he was fined ,£2, and convicted and discharged on the second. ' Eric Malcolm Riel and Lewis Mitchell O'Shea were charged with, having unlawfully converted to their 'own uso, and without any colour of right, but not so 'as to bo guilty of theft under tho Crimes Act. a motor-car, the property of Kingi Spooner, of Gisborne. Mr. Spooner visited. Wellington on Monday. last, and stored his motor-car in Page's garage in Courtcnay Place. On tho following morning it had disappeared, and despite the efforts of : the police the car could not be traced. On.Thursday, however, Detectives Carney and Black noticed a large motor-car covered with mud being driven by two young men, The detectives immediately gave chase, and succeeded in detaining the occupants. It was alleged that since Monday the men had been touring the country. While negotiating the Paekakariki bill on the journey to town the two motor mechanics had an exciting time, the car catching fire on two occasions. The accused wero remanded until May 7, bail being allowed in .£SO each, and one surely ol