MAGISTRATES COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 15

MAGISTRATES COURT

—+ POLICE C.YSES. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided Id the Magistrates Court au Saturday. George William liarris, aged 42. on a charge of theft of au overcoat and scarf, valued at £b, the property oi James William Roper, at Murtiuboi’ough, on November 25, was remanded to appear at Martin borough on December 19. George Lawson, aged <59. pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour while drunk, and also to using obscene language, at the Caledonian carnival on Friday night. He was fined 205.. in default three days’ imprisonment, on the first charge, and £3 or fourteen days’ on the secon 1. John Woods, a labourer, aged 35, on a charge of stealing the sum of £2 25., the property of the Waimauku Athletic Club, was remanded to appear at Helensville on December 8. Bail was allowed at £2O and one surety of £2O. Joseph Lance Lantsberry. aged 49, who pleaded guilty to attempting to commit suicide, was remanded until Monday at the request of a Salvation Army officer, who promised to see whether accused could be got into a home. Ans More, aged 47, a fourth offender for drunkenness, was ordered to pay expenses amounting to £1 155.. in default three days’ imprisonment.