POLICE COURT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5200, 7 November 1927, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

PAEROA, THIS MORNING.

YOUTH COMMITTED TO BORSTAL.

At. the local Police Court this morning, before Mr F. ,W. Platts, S.M., a Paeroa youth named Charles Leonard Sinnett was brought forward to answer a charge that, on or about July 29 last, he stole the sum of £1 from \V. M. Sorensen. A second charge was the alleged theft of a registered letter containing the sum of £7, also the property of Sorensen, on October 18.

Sinnett appeared before the Court on Friday aftern; on last, when he was, remanded on bail by Mr F. E. Flatt, J.P., until this morning. Accused pleaded guilty.

Sergeant D. L. Calwell conducted the prosecution. \V. M. Sorense,n, blacksmith, Paeroa, said that he had never received the registered letter, although it had been signed for by the accused at the post office. Accused had been employed by him for two and a half years.

William Edward Ward, postmaster, Paeroa, produced an official receipt for the registered letter signed by Sinnett.

Constable MeClinehy produced a signed statement in which accused had admitted that the postman had delivered the letter to Sorensen’s shop, and later accused opened the letter and extracted £7 in single notes. The money was spent on clothes and a week-end trip to Waihi. On another occasion accused took two half-sovereigns from the coat pocket of Sorejnsen. He told his mother that he had backed a horse and won the money. Hq was at the present time, on three years’ probation for a previous theft from a dwelling. Accused was convicted and an order made for his commitment to the Borstal Institution for a term of three years, and ordered to make restitution of £5 10s, plus costs £l. FAILURE TO MAINTAIN. George Wilkinson, labourer, Tirohia, was charged with a. breach of a maintenance order made by Mr J. W. Boynton, S.M., at Paeroa, on October 4, 1926, ordering him to pay £1 10s a week towards the support of his wife, Hema Wilkinson (Mr Carden) and infant child. An order was made for imprisonment for one month, the warrant to be suspended so long as he paid £2 a week. WANDERING COW! A local resident was charged with permitting a cow to wander in Moore Street on October 31. Mr C. N. O’Neill, for the Borougn Council, submitted that the civic authorities were entitled to protection and assistance in enforcing the bylaws. It was the first case brought before the; Court for some time, and While a heavy penalty was not sought an example should be made as a guide to others.

Mr Carden said that the case was not a deliberate one, and no damage had been done,.

The magistrate said that the bylaws were made to be enforced. In this, his first case of its kind at Paeroa, a conviction would be recorded, together with costs amounting to- 30s.