MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10277, 12 May 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL.

Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M.. presided over a sho.rt sitting of tho Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning. Julia Selin.l. Sehultz and John Mills; who are well known to tho police' in various parts of tho Dominion, pleaded guilty to charges of being idle and disorderly persons, in that -they habitually consorted with reputed thieves. '■■ Chief-Detective Boddam said the accused had been living together for some time.' Mills was an habitual criminal, and for the past two'years ho had been out on probationary license. For portion of that period, according to Detective-Sergeant Andrews' report, Mills had earned- good money, font for the past six months, he was not knawn to have done, any work, was often in a state of intoxication, and his mode of gaining' a -livelihood could only bo conjectured. .' It was his twenty-iirst appearance, before the court, and prior to his arrest on the present.charge he was given several warnings. The. woman had thirtyfour previous • convictions recorded against her.

Mills informed tho court that he had completed £2OOO worth of contracts since he-had been out on license, and had accepted another contract. If given a chance, he'would go into the country and take tho woman with him.

The magistrate said lie had not the power to grant the request. Each defendant would be sentenced io three mouths' imprisonment, a:ul the male accused would be reported to the Prisons Board.