MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11245, 10 April 1902, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Messrs G. Pacing, W. H. Prndhoe, and J. Richardson, J.P.s, presided attheMagis- ■ trate's Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS. j Michael Sheohan and a first offender were each fined 5s and costs for this offence. A SERIES OF CHARGES. William Kiniey. upon a charge of drunkenness, was fined ss. and he was ordered *°Pay £4 isJs, the Snount of damage he aid to the cab in -which he was coiivered to the Police Station, in default a month's imprisonment. Upon a charge of "threatening to do for" James Fletcher and his wife the same accused was remanded , for a week on his own application. THEFT OF MONEY. Edward Diggs, a coloured man, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing £1 5s 6d from John Williams, who slept in the same room as accused at a Christchurch boardinghouse. A SERIOUS CHARGE. A young man named Harold L. Cousins appeared upon a charge of having assaulted Leonard Faville on Tuesday. Mr Cassidy appeared for the accused. Sub-In-spector Black applied for a remand for a week. Hβ said that in consequence of a quaa-rei the accused was alleged to have picked up a large piece of road metal, which he tied in his handkerchief in the form of a sling, and then struck complainant on the f orenead. Dr. Orchard stated that the man assaulted was suffering from a wound in the middle of the forehead, which extended to the skull. There had been considerable hemorrhage, and the skull at the bottom of the wound was cracked. The man was not in any immediate danger, although there was the danger that inflammation might set in on account of dirt inside the wound. The Bench granted the week's remand, and allowed bail, accused in £25 and one surety in £25. BICYCLE CASES. _ The following cyclists were fined for riding their bicycles at night without displaying lights:—Frederick Sykes ss, Arthur Handisides ss, Frank Anton 10s, Leonard Adams ssy Patrick Pickering ss. HORSE AT LARGE. Thomas Lee was fined 5s and costs for allowing a horse to wander at large at Belfast. A similar charge, against Annie Brown was dismissed. DAMAGING HOSE. James J. B. Hefferman (Mr Donnellv) and A. Butterfield were each fined 10s and coste for damaging the Fire Brigade hose on March 15tih, the night of the recent Madras street fire. The two accused had driven over the hose which was stretched across the road. A third charge against J. G. Hutchinson was adjourned till Friday. SCHOOL CASES. Thomas Easthrew was fined 2s for neglecting to send his child to school. Similar charges against Alexander Fraser and John Bleasa were dismissed. ILLEGALLY ON LICENSED PREMISES. John Sheedy, a prohibited person, who was on the premises of the Zetland Arms on March 6th, and James Crawford, also a prohibited person, who entered the Cave Rock Hotel during the currency of the order against him, were each fined 20s and costs, on Tuesday. Mr R. Beetham, 8.M., preside at the LytMton Court yesterday; and dealt with til c" foliowinjj cases :~ LARCBNY. Thomas Grogan and Michael O'Malley, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of stealing a £1 note and a florin, the property of Ernest; Suww, on board the brigantine Araftapu. O'MaUey acknowledged numerous convictions and punishments he iad suffered. 'Grogan also admitted having' been convicted of vagrancy. The Bench, after hearing the evidence, convicted tbe accused and sentenced' them to three months' imprisonment with hard labour each. : THE LICENSING ACT. Henry Bailey, licensee of tjhe Albion Hotel, -was charged with a breach of the law- by failing to open to the police. Consbalble Prat t f deposed tihafc about 9 o'clock on Good Friday evening he knocked at the AJbion Hotel, and said nvtho he "was. He was detained five minutes before the defendant, opened the door. .Witness ;*sound two men in a room upstairs. They were not travellers or lodgers. Mr Bailey said tihey 1 were lodgers, and the men said the same; subsequently tßiey said they were fcravel'leis. 3lr Baiiey, in defence, said people were in the'habit; of saying they were police, and he didn't think it was a constable knocking. The defendant was fined £5. BEPOnNDED ANIMALS. A charge against Mr Urn, for allowing a mare and foot and three calves to be at large on the Governor's Bay road on March 10th, was dismissed, with, costs against tihe ranger, as the defendant denied that the animals were his property. ■*■ ; [ GTVIL CASES. W. Radcliffe v W. Day, judgment by default was given for the plaintiff for £4. Heber Cholmondeley (Mr Beswick) v Poijt Levy Road Board (Mr Izard). Theplaintiff sued for 18s expenditure he had made on a road abutting on his property. The Board had employed a man on the road, but the work was'not completed, and tlie plaintiff completed it. The Board pleaded that they had not authorised the plaintiff to do the work. Jiudgment wae given for the defendants. / Andrew Rattray and others (Mr Beswick) v S. Sinclair and others" (Mr Johnson). This was an action to recover £35 for the loss of the yacht Queen Mab on I Sunday, March 9th. ; A number of witnesses gave evidence on each side, to the effect that the defendants had borrowed the yacht; which had been wrecked on the I Gladstone Pier, through no fault of theirs, in a fierce sou-west gale, which suddenly sprang up. Judgment was given for phe defendants, without costs. FALSE PRETENCES. At the Ashiburton Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before Messrs R. Alcorn and D. ■ Thomas, J.Ps., Joseph S. J. Pengelley was charged wit>h obtaining the sum of, £2 by false pretences from Edward J. Righton, manager of the Ashburton Club, with intent to defraud tie said E. J. Righton. Sergeant Barlow appeared for ihe prosecution. Accused was undefended. Edward J. Righton. manager of the Ashburton Club, said that on the 29th or 30th March, Pengelley gave him a cheque for £1. On April Ist, Pengelley again came to him, and asked for a blank Bank of New Zealand cheque, which he filled in for £2, asking witness to take that instead of the previous one. Witness handed back the first cheque and £1, keeping the one for £2, which Pengellev asked him not to present for a few days. When the cheque was presented it was returned, marked "no account." The matter was then placed in the hands of the police. The ledger-

keeper in the Bank of New Zeajand, Cliristchurch, said the accused had had. an account in the Bank, but it had lapsed from want of iunds. The accused said that lie had gone to Timaru on business, and as he coulrt not cover the cheque in time, ho telegraphed to Righton to that effect, Pengeltey was -sentenced to one month's imprisonment.