MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11726, 29 October 1903, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Messrs W. W. Collins-and A. Marshall, J.p.’s, occupied the Magistrate's Court Bench yesterday. DRUNKENNESS, Etc. A male first offender was fined 5s for drunkenness. Richard Tubman was sentenced to forty-eight hours upon a charge of drunkenness, and to three months’ imprisonment upon a further charge of using obscene language in Hagley Park. CYCLE CASES. John Rowberry and Louis Fonteney were each fined 10s and costs for riding bicycles at night without carrying lights. BY-LAWS. For driving horses and vehicles across city street intersections at other than the prescribed walking pace, John Howard, James Peacock, and Edward Herbert England (Mr Leathern) were each fined 10s. Edward Helsig was fined ss, and Elizabeth Hegarty and John Martin 10s each, for anowing cattle to graze on public roads near Papanui. Charles Cooper was fined 7s 6d for allowing a. chimney in his house, Oxford terrace, to catch fire. BOARDING AND QUITTING MOVING TRAINS. John McKenzie, for whom Mr Donelly appeared, uas charged with boarding a moving train at Christchurch on October 16th. Mr Donnelly explained that the defendant had been engaged to assist in the dining-car of the < xpress, and had been misinformed as to the time the train left the Christchurch Station. He had just reached the Colombo street crossing when the train came along. He jumped aboard as the train passed by, and was assisted hv some people standing on the platform. The defendant had acted in the way he had done simply upon the impulse of the moment, and without any intention to commit a wilful breach of the regulations. A fine of 10s and costs was imposed. An elderly gentleman named A. Joyce admitted a charge of getting on the Lyttelton train while it was leaving Christchurch at ten past twelve, on October 19th. He also was fined 10s and costs.

Thomas Hurrell pleaded “Guilty - ’ to a charge of jumping off a moving train at Templeton, on December 20th. .Sub-In-spector Dwyer stated that the train was running very fast at the time, and the defendant, after jumping, had been knocked down, and might easily have sustained severe injuries. The defendant was fined 10s.