MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29. (Before Messrs J. Uott and I>\ W Haybittle, J.P.’s)

Pearl Williams, nineteen years of ago, pleaded guilty to three charges of tneft. Tho lirst was that on December 26th she stole £1 and one pair of shoes, valued at 15s, the property of ono Alills; (2) that she stole, on December 27th, a lady’s skirt, valued at £2 10s, belonging to Annie Clark; and (3) that on the following day sh© committed tho theft of a silk blouse and other wearing apparel, valued at 15s, belonging to Grace Watson.

Mr P. W. Jackson, who appeared for the accused, stated that sho was living with adopted parents. Probably the girl did not realise the seriousness of the offence. He suggested that the accused should be ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that the £1 was returned to the person to whom, it belonged. Sub-Inspector Sheehan mentioned that the sovereign and the shoes were stolen from the Columbia Private Hotel, where the girl was employed as a servant. The articles to which the second and third charges related, were taken from the People’s Palace. All the articles stolen had been recovered, except the sovereign. ' Accused was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that the £1 was returned to the owner.

Walter Jory was remanded until February sth on a charge of failing to maintain a child in the State of South Australia. Accused was arrested at Beikiorangi last Tuesday. George Selway and William Ryan, who each pleaded guilty to causing a breach of the peace in Willis street on Tuesday night, were fined £l, in default three days’ imprisonment.