IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10316, 27 January 1927, Page 6

IN THE COURTS

reformative treatment FOR PROFESSIONAL LOAFER / TTMARU, Jan 26. Described as a professional loafer and liai. Charles Patriate McCarthy wo» to-day ordered to be d r lamed for reformative treatment for a period not exceeding two years by Mr L. K. Orr Walker, rf.M., on several charges. * 6 IMPRISONMENT OF' DEBTORS

CANNOT BE SENT TO GAOL TWICE FOR bwME FENCE

WELLINGTON, JV.u, 26. Debtors who l ave s-'yed a teim or imprisonment icr defanitng on P r ->gment summonses cannot again be imprisoned :n respect to the samo default. This point was made clear to-day in the decision of 3V£r Dage, S.M. * in the case in which Jack Jacobson a 'tailor, of TVtdllingtoii, sought to recover £7 0s 6d and costs from a seaman, Dan McLean, or Maunganui. Defendant served a term of five davs’ imprisonment in October 1925 when he was arrested for failure to comply with an order made in the previous February. - Mr l iite snid there seemed _no New Zealand decision on the point. He quoted an English, case in which the decision he thought governed the interpretation of the New Zealand statute. Default, in his opinion, was not contravening the Act, or rendering defendant liable to- repeated periods of imprisonment. Once the defendant was committed to prison the court was functus officio and could not impose a second term.— P.A. ASSAULT ON SHIP’S MATE SEAMEN SENT TQ GAOL CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 26 Thomas Robson and John Sullivan, of the crew of the steamer Devon, were sentenced to three months’ gaol to-day for assaulting the mate while on the voyage from Aue'-’Anrl by attempting to dump him on the deck. ALLEGED THEFT OF CARS. . AUCKLAND, Jan. 26. William Victor Alley, a laborer, aged 24. was committed for trial today, charged with stealing a motorcar valued at £375, the property of his uncle, George Alley. Accused told the police that his uncle owed him £9 for work, and he would take the value out in the use of the car. He also admits taking another car. —P.A. THEFT OF POSTAL PACKET. DUNEDIN, Jan. 26. At the City Police Court this morning, William Alfred Robert Russell was charged with (1) the theft of a postal packet containing a cheque for £3O, the property of the Postmaster-General; (2) breaking and entering the Plunket Society’s rooms in Stuart Street and stealing a pair of scissors valued at Bs, and (3) stealing a cheque for £3Ol, the property of Butterworth Bros. Accused pleaded guilty to the first charge and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. To the charge of breaking and entering he pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. The third charg? was withdrawn.—'P.A.