COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1929, Page 3

COURT NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, February 25. “ This man has had his chance, and has not taken advantage of it.” said Mr Page, S.M., after Frederick Perceval Fowler, 27, labourer, had admit-, ted stealing a suit of clothes valued at £lO from a room-mate last month. lie had been admitted to probation for two years and prohibited for theft and false pretences, hut according to the police had still kept on drinking. Accused was sentenced to threemonths’ imprisonment for theft and three months’ for breach of probation, the sentences to be concurrent. John Jjimes Turner, a moulder, 28. accused of being a “Peeping lorn,” was convicted by the Magistrate today, and fined £lO. in default two months’ imprisonment. Accused was watched by a constable go down a right- of way, through three hack yards, and found him looking in a window where a girl was undressing. He believed him to be the same man as he had seen on a previous occasion. A seaman, Willi am Henry Thomas, and a cook. Daniel O’Keefe, were committed for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Frederick Empsnn, Manners' Street, and stealing 45 ardys of serge and two pieces of lining, valued at £4B. John Sharp, news agent, who pleaded not gm.ty to receiving the articles, was committed for trial.