PRISON TERM IMPOSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 2

PRISON TERM IMPOSED

ELDERLY WOMAN SENTENCED FOR SHOP-LIFTING “ Some years ago the defendant was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention on 27 charges of shop-lifting, and now she is before the court again on 12 similar charges,” said Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., in the City Police Court yesterday, when Marv Eliza Caswell, a married woman, aged 62, appeared for sentence. The public and shopkeepers must be protected from her depredations, said the magistrCaswell was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention on the first charge and convicted and discharged on the other 11 charges. The magistrate ordered her to return the stolen articles, the total value of which was £57. Obscene Language , “ There has been a great deal of trouble outside this dance hall, and the police are trying to end it,” said Senior Sergeant D. Vaughan when Hedley Ernest Malcolm Gough, a shearer and freezing worker, admitted a charge of wilfully damaging the door of the St. Hilda Town Hall to the extent of £1 on the night of October 16 and using obscene language on the same occasion. , , . . .. When the doorkeeper refused to admit the defendant because of his alleged intoxicated state, he became abusive and damaged the door of the hall by kicking it, said the senior sergeant. On the charge of using obscene language, the defendant was fined £lO, in default 10 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. On the charge of mischief, he was convicted and discharged. Drupk and Disorderly Kyle Cuthbert, a labourer, aged 20, was fined £5 for being drunk and disorderly in Prince Albert road on* December 4. Senior Sergeant Vaughan said that the defendant was refused admission to the St. Kilda dance hall because of his drunken condition On the approach of a constable, he became argumentative, asked for the constable’s name, and seized his coat. The constable arrested the defendant.