COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 6

COURT NEWS.

ALLEGED THEFT. (By Telegraph—Per Press* ABBociiftiun.) ' * * NELSON, August 21. At Takaka, Francis Thomas Edward Bird was charged with on-or '-about Ist December; 1928, or on divers mates up to 8()t!i December, 1929, at-Takaka, that he did receive monies .'amounting to £69 on account of the Golden'-’Bay Cement- Cb.v’s Employees!' Industrial Union, and did fail to account- fdb the same, thereby -committing theft. ' The accused pleaded not guilty,-‘and reserved his defence, and-waS ccntiinited to the Supreme Court for-trial!' • • - - * 7 • IW'- * GHRISTCHUBCH CONVICTIONS. • • -.iohij:'. CHRIST OH. U ROHp s Aug. 21. In the Supreme Court-to-day, Edgar Arthur Baib-a-rel was found guilty on a charge of. attempting-to-obtaih'From the Post Office Savings Riuik ; £l® by means .of a ; forged . withdfa'Wal.slip. August John Barberel, brother ■'of accused,- stole his Post Office Bank book, and when the father-in-law discovered the theft,'’he“ ! f6und also that £220 -had been' withdrawn from his account. The' CroWfC' case against Edgar' Barberel" Whs ’’that he attempted to cash a slip forged by August Barberel.

Lionel Charles Burke ; Whs charged with having failed to• nv aecmirit’ ‘for. three sums'of- £llO 10s in Al 1 ! to' the New r Zealand Investment Go. Ltd'.’,’ received by him for the said'of'; bonds. Accused had been salesman' for. the company, but had been dismissed? The Crown case was that and, retained the money. 1 The accused, in his defence, said that lie [niC the money in notes in an envelope, / and remitted" it to the agent of- the company, one John Soiher.ville Jones. Jones denied having deceived the money. '

Alan Howard was ' chargecT with, breaches of the Bankruptcy Act in failing to disclose all his property to the Assignee;; also- that; lie" fobject. to keep proper books of account,' 'antji*'that ho made material omissions iri’a'statement to theAssignee,Howard was found guilty on the charge of failing to lyeep proper hooks, hut: on the other charges.. ?.

All the prisoners lyerq; . remanded till to-morrow morning-.-foiv-sentence. ■">' ." ' n.-b.-m!!'-. . ; CHRISTCHURCH SENTENCES. ~ .(■-'}/ U\ sv At the 'Supreme Court, prisoners sen teheed were i-Ajsdgar Arthur j Barberel, attempting to use a'Hedged withdrawal slip at a Savings'* Bank, '.six months gaol. \ . Bonel Charles Burke,' V salppman. theft',' three' ohar-ges,* twelve”'* months Ronald Bertie Moher, tlieFt"'bThiotor tyres and tubes, six months gaol. ... Herbert, Qj;nipnd. ..Lawrence, theft, of £BO from ( the. Addington PbsSlHffieesix months impiisonment t‘! Spencer Linton -Sykes," T. 9, theft of bicycle parts, two years probation. , Walter-, James Wright yp. counterfeit..’coins, a year’s' ** w gaol. Judge Adams said this ...orimpy yms most serious as the defWifrgfdr-cnr-rency struck at the root of all, mercantile transactions, f*' -."-■iatta. LORRY DRIVER''SENTENCED. :IHT "'JQ . A.i'io.: t( ‘ G]SBoßNE,';^fe^2 Stern comment upon tile ; agti&n of, :i lorry driver driving on liftewdynb' kuig down a little girl and' leaving her lying on the road suffering severe in-.(U-jries, •w ax ..passed by ..Mr Just Reed in the Supremo'-'"(3pnrt ! / ; C:is morning, in sentencing 'fjte'f driver', Rett Moa or Peter Moore ter -one year’s imprisonment and - '-tonCelHng his driving license fof'fivd years. -His Honour warmly coninrended th l e / -fnot-' orist Potts’ action in pursuing the lorry after the accident and compelling the driver to stop. aftefCstt/iduise of . ten miles. Moa pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to a charge of negligently driving a lorry vthenebyi,l-aUs-ing liodily injury -tq -NheJinpq Kidd, aged 8, who was knocked off a bicycle and ran over suffering a fractured jaw and arm; .-- ;{ f«