POLICE COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4815, 3 September 1894, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

MASTERTON.-MONDAY. (Before Messrs W. Lowes and C. Hughes J's.P.) i IIHEAKMI A WINDOW, ' Wm Thompson, an old offender, was charged with having broken a pane of glass in a window of the Empire Hotel on the morning of Saturday last. night watchmen, said lie heard the smash, and found the accused iii fi'Qiit of the Empire Hotel nhout three o'clock on Saturday with a boot in his hand and the pane of glass broken. T. U. Thompson said he heard the window smashed, and the'voice of accused on the verandah. He had cleared the accused out of the hotel several times pn Friday last. He know him to bo an intolerable nuisance when drinking, Accused was lined £1 or in default fourteen days imprisonment, WIUXKBXXESS. A first offender was discharged with a caution. AHiEOED- IAIICEXY. ■\Vm Tiu't was charged with the theit qf two axes, an axe haudle, a; l|oi»o' hra'sii, anil a'brass .'tap, the property of the Masterton Volunteer Kre Brigade. - * Accused pleaded not guilty and asked for a remand, A romand was granted until noon, On resuming ntn'oon Tail pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing tho axes.

Sergeant McArdle said that only a member of the Brigade know where the key of the tool shed was hung. The.plea of guilty to taking, the axes and not the bucket was a faree. When first arrested accused said ho had bought thc'wholoof the articles from a man in the street. The Bench said tho nature of the offenco was much intensified by the fact that the property of a Fire Brigade which might have been wanted at any moment for use at a serious fire,; ',Tait was then sentenced to two months' hard labour,