MAGISTRATE’S COURT
The police business at the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday was taken by Mr. IN K. Hunt, S.M Convicted for the third time for drunkenness, Harry Lord was' fined 10s. John Hughes was fined 30s. for committing an indecent act in the Opera House lane on Friday. He was drunk at. the time of committing the offence. Thomas Laidler was charged witli stealing six carpenters’ rules, value 13s. 6d., the properly of some, person unknown: and he was furthet charged with stealing a number of rules, a pair of pliers', and a spanner, value 345. 6d„ the property of James 13. Hulbert. ChiefDetectivo Ward said that accused claimed to have met a mysterious man in the street whom nobody knew, and obtained the goods from him. The facts wero that Constable Hunt, in the course of his inquiries, had found that a certain name appeared somewhat frequently in the books of a number of second-hand dealers, and continuing his investigations, he discovered that the accused had stolen the goods from one second-hand dealer and sold them to others. Laidler was convicted and sentenced t o three months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 9
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189MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 144, 14 March 1921, Page 9
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