MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 112, 17 June 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) REMANDS.

Robert Heale was remanded fo< seven days on a charge of being helplessly drunk. Michael Shea, charged with being an idle and disorderly person, was also remanded for a week.

Timothy Twomeyand Andrew Watson were charged with stealing an overcoat valued at £3 10/-, the property of Frederick Billingham.They were each, remanded for a week. BY-LAW CASES. William John Caldwell was charged with having cycled on the footpath in St. Albans. He was fined 5/- with costs. Hugh Enson, charged with driving a car" without a tail-light, was fined 5/-with-costs. . .. LARRIKINISM. Arthur Robinson was charged with having wilfully damaged the door of St. Michael T s Schoolroom, valu'ed at 15/-. He was ordered to pay 15/- damages and 15/- witnesses' expenses. Accused pleaded that he had liquor in him when he committed the offence. He was a married man with one child and belonged to the same denomination "as those who were holding a meeting inside the schoolroom. His Worship said that accused had got off very lightly. This was an offence that was all too common, and some boys and young men considered it great sport to interrupt v j| meetings such as this by throwing £ stones. 4 'You're getting off very | lightly," said Mr Bailey; "next time I'll inflict a heavy fine." MORE STILL. | Colin G. Hendry was charged with I having thrown ' c a missile, " a portion of an apple, at Cecil Henry Withers, in I a railway carriage. He was also charged with having used obscene" language to Withers. , Withers was in charge at Opawa Station, and three times, on three successive mornings, he had seen accused throw an apple at' him from; a passing train. Twice he hit him, but the third time it was a bad shot and fell short. ' Another railway employee said he interviewed accused in the railway carriage and asked him for his name and address. Hendry told him it was Jones, and also said he would give the man on the Opawa station a —: —punch.' He was told that the name given by him was not satisfactory and that he would be given iu charge at Lyttelton. Before the train got to Heathcote, accused was missing. He was convicted on both charges and fined 10/- on each with witnesses expenses and Court costs, a total of £3 15/-. Default was fixed at one month's imprisonment and Hendry was given seven days to pay the amount. Michael M'Grath was charged with having stolen an overcoat valued at £3, the property of Walter Baker. Baker gave evidence to the effect that he left his coat in Tattersall's Hotel and found it missing when he went back. M'Grath had an unsavoury record, three charges of theft, three charges of vagrancy, and he had just come out after serving a sentence for forging and uttering. He was sentenced to three months* imprisonment with two years' reformative treatment to follow.