STOLE CASH-BOX

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 4

STOLE CASH-BOX

SEAMAN PAYS THE PENALTY MAGISTRATE’S COURT CASES. Mr J. H. Salmon. S.M.. presided at the hearing of police and summons cases >n the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. POLICE CASKS. Leslie Robert Ashficld, a seaman aged 20, stole a cash-box belonging to Solomon Cross. Inside that cash-box was jewellery of the value of £3 12s fid. Taxed with the theft yesterday, Ashfield admitted his guilt and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in the Wellington gaol. That he Was idle and disorderly. With insufficient lnwful men ns of support, was admitted by Albert Thomas Wood, a cook, aged 40. The magistrate imposed a sentence of fourteen days’ imprisonment with hnrd labour in the Wellington gaol. Pleading guilty to committing wilful mischief by breaking a pane of glass, valued at 10s. on the premises of the Britannia Hotel. William John O’Shea was fined £2 and ordered to make restitution of the damage done. O’Shea was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Charles Sydney Holley, a newspaper agent, nged 19, and a Becond offender for druhkenness, was fined £l. William Logan, a bootblack, aged 74, for casting offensive matter, was fined £2, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour. For drunkenness Logan was convicted and discharged. ~ SUMMONS CASES. Wong Lowe, a market gardener, for working at his calling at Island Bay on a Sunday, was convicted and filled 10s. Failuro to dose his shop at the appointed hour on the statutory halfholiday cost T. Andrew a 10s fine. Bernard Bell, James Black and Herliert John Mockeridge, found on licensed premises at the Masonic Hotel after hours, were each convicted and fined £l.