COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 3

COURT NEWS.

“WANTED A MACHINE-GUN.”

YOUNG MAN’S ADMISSION

NAPIER, August 21

“I wanted to get a machine-gun at this stage, as I had studied the methods of Chicago gun gangs and I wanted to fit a machine' gun in the hack of the car as a means of defence should I be pursued by the police at any time.”

The above passage was one of the declarations of a startling nature contained in the statement to the police of Fred Matthews, alias Leslie Scott, aged twenty-one years, who appeared at the Napier Police. Court this morning before Messrs A. E. Bedford, J.P., and R. Hay Chapman, J.P., faced w r ith six charges, of breaking and entering. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.

The prisoner was one of a party arrested' som© weeks ago, hut he made his escape from a car while on the way to the police station.

THEFT BY CLERK. MONEY FROM HOSPITAL. MASTERTON, August 21„ Pleading guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr E. Miller, S.M. to five charges of theft from letters ot bank notes, postal notes and stamps to the value j)f £4 5s lOd, the property of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, Ronald Victor Faulkner, a clerk, aged twenty-three, was admitted to probation for a period of two years. Accused had been in the employ of the Wairarapa Hospital Board for four years, and the offences were committed between April 28, 1931 and July 2 1931.

Tlie Magistrate refused to suppress accused’s name.