MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14475, 2 October 1912, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

v'Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined os. in default 24 hours' imprisonment. Frank Ford (alias Thomas Ford) for being found drunk on the railway platform, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. BROKEN ORDERS. Thornton Newsome waa charged with having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, and pleaded'guilty. 31 r Malley, who appeared for the defendant, said that he had kept quite straight during 'the last few months.. The Magistrate inspected his record, and remarked that 'during 1910 he had been sentenced to Koto Roa for two years, and had been sent bank again for another breach. Ho would inflict a fine , of 40s and cests, in default, one month's imprisonment: but ho warned the defendant that thiS was his last chance, and that if he came up again before the Bench, he would receive a more substantial sentence. Thomas Sheen, for procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, was fined 10s. 'in / default 18 hours' imprisonment. PRINK AND COMPLICATIONS. Richard Sheehan. with two aliases, was brought up on four charges —of drunkenness, refusal to quit licensed promises, assault on a police constable and wilful damage of tho same constable's clothes to the value of £1. To the first charge tho accused pleaded guilty. As to the others, he said he remembered nothing. Constable Pool stated that ho had removed accused, v/ho was then drunk, from an hotel. Accused had violently resisted him, and in addition to damaging his clothes had bitten his finger badly. Accused was convicted on all four charges, and on the count of assault he was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. He was also ordered to pay for the damage caused, in default an' extra fourteen days' imprisonment. John Thomas Jackson was charged with having refused to quit licensed premises. The barman and the liccn.ee of the hotel gave evidence that accused had had several drinks, and had brgun to behave in a disorderly maluier, and on being asked to go away had refused. He had been on the premises about an hour and a half, and tho police had then been sent for to remove him. Tho Magistrate said that the evidence did not speak .well for the character of the hotel. He was quite prepared to afford protection to lec-nsees when necessary, but he was not disposed to grant the same protection to those who allowed people to '.oaf about their premises and get drunk, and then when they became vioKnt went to the police for protection. He accordingly dismissed the case FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. Albert Muclow (Mr Hunter), pleaded guilty to twelve charges of failing U> account for sums of money totalling £11 15s. Mr Hunter pleaded that the accused was only 18 years of age, and that a passion for frequenting the ,kating rink was tho cause of his downtall. He nsked the Magistrate to deal as leniently with him as possible. 1 heMagistrate said that he was going to treat this case exactly as he had treated a similar case which had recently been brought before him. He would sentence the accused to a nominal imprisonment of one month ? to -bo kept, apart from tho other prisoners, and would ask tho Government to bring him under the pjoyis:ons of the Industrial Schools Act. MAINTENANCE. Alexander Kidd, charged with, disobedience of a maintenance order, was ordered to pay the arrears forthwith; iv default thrceanontlis , iinprispnmeni;. Carl Gloisten was charged, on the information of his wife, with persistent cruelty and failure to maintain. H:s wife 'stated that: they had been married two years, ami had an infant child aged fourteen months. The. defendant had thrashed her when she told him be ought to go out and get some work. He was not addicted to drink, and his cruelty was simply due to bad temper. She had been living apart from her husband for some time. The Magistrate said that he would grant her a separation order, with custody of the child, and would order the husband to contribute 20s a week to thejr maintenanco.

DARFIELD

(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) Andrew Beattie, charged with being drunk while in chargo of a horse, was convicted and fined 10s, and costs £2 15s. In a civil case, A. M. Welsh r Joseph Flynn, application for a judgment order for £6 6s 2d, an order was made for immediate payment, in default seven days' imprisonment. Judgment by default was "given in the cases Geo. Cridge and Son v A. Andrews, £3 15s sd. and J. O. Anstiss v Walter Wright £6 9s 3d.