MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 24, 23 October 1920, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THEFT OF A £1 NOTE.

Mr, J. S. Evans, S.M., dealt with- tne police and summons cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. r ohn Edward Angland and Patrick Gubbin were jointly charged with the theft of £1, the property of Jean Kellaher. Mr. J. Stovenson appeared for Gubbin, and both men pleaded not guilty. The evidence showed that the, fhreo. persons had been boarders, and on Thursday afternoon the two men met Mrs. Kellaher in Courtenay Place. One of them asked her if she had any mon,sy on her. The woman opened her bag and there was a £1 - note in it, which she alleged Angland abstracted and'thrust towards Gubbin. When' a policeman came in sight, Angland, who was intoxicated, made off, and the woman followed him, and Gubbin walked behind her. The two men were arrested, and when searched the stolen note was not found. Gubbin had 225. Gd. on him in silver, and Anglanddiad no money at all. After hearing the evidence the Magistrate 6entence<l both men to fourteen days' imprisonment each, and ordered them to refund *b« money stolen. Angland was fined 10s. for drunkenness.

William Denis Quill, for whom Mr. A. B. Sievwright appeared, pleaded guilty to the theft of a pair of boots, valued at £2 10s., the property of Arthur Carver, also to the theft of two collarettes, value 225. lid., (he property of Eleanor M. Cox. These were two cases of "shoplifting," and it was shown that the accrsed had a long fist of previous convictions. Mr. Sievwright said that Quill's troubles were entirely due to excessive drinking. H. 3 had already put in a period on "the island," 'but it had apparently done him no good. Ho suggested that Quill should be given a term of reformative treatment. On the charge of stealing the collarettes ho was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and on the other charge hp wos sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and to undergo three years' reformative treatment at the conclusion of his terms of imprisonment. Alexander Linquist was remanded to appear at Featherston on October 26 on a charge of having assaulted -Mason Coulsan so as to cause him actual bodily Sym'ons Nausbaum, second-hand dealer, was remanded for a week on a charw of purchasing a Winchester pea rifle without 'having first obtained a permit from an officer of police to do so. Arthur Bryant, who was found helplessly drunk on the Queen's Wharf some days ago, and who had been under medical treatment, was ordered to pay 17s. 6(1. medical expenses. Two defendants, both named Arthur Backhouse, uncle and nephew, were convicted of being found in the < Impena Hotel aftra- hlonrs, and were each fined 10s. and 7s. costs. s^. Harry George Bush, barman at the Panama Hotel, for whom Mr. N. Johnson appeared, was convicted of supplying liquor to a man who was drunk, anil was fined 20s. and costs 7s.