THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 4

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) VAGRANCY. John Broderick, aged 56 years, pleaded guilty to being an idie and disorderly person, in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. Accused said he had plenty of nioney. Senior-Detective T. Gibson said accused persisted in asking people about town for money. Accused was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. BREACH OF ARMS ACT. "William Everitt was fined 20s and costs for having been found in possession of an unregistered automatic pistol. The weapon was ordered to be forfeit. . MARRIED WOMAN'S LAPSE. Margaret Gabb (Mr R. Twyndiam) was charged with the theft of two ladies' bicycles, valued' at £5 10s and £7 10s respectively the properties cf Myrtle Dawson and Ethel Dorothy Amelia Page. She pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily , A constable said that the woman had admitted stealing the bicycles. She hacll taken one to the City Auction Rooms to fell. Senior-Detective Gibson stated that the woman's husband had gone to the West Coast and he had not sent her very much money. Mr Twvneham said she was a married woman with six children, of whom four were dependant. Her husband v. as a master bnildsr, but he was a muddler. He was working on a contract near Ttoss. but he had not had.- any morpv for a cortime. At thp time of th« thefts, accused was in .very strait-MU'd circumstances. (Sho hn<l ! be°n a pood mother and a food wife. It was her first appearance before th» Court. Th<? Magistrate remanded th« woman u^i l to-dav in ordrr to al'ow the Probation Officer to pretwc a renort. BREACH OF PROBATION. "Victor fed ward Maxwell, alios Victor Clyde, aged 20 years, pleaded i.et guilty to a chargo of having committed a breach of probation. > The Probation Officer (the Rev. F. Rule) said thi boy had not reported <since November 9th, 1922. "He is just one of the men who regards probation quite lightly/' he saidi. The Magistrate said the obligatim was on accused to see that his letters reached.the Probation Officer. He wotiid be sentenced to reformative treatment for' three yeaie. BROKEN ORDER. Robert James Watson Mitchell was fined 20s and costs for having trokon his prohibition ordsr. DISMISSED. An information against Stewart. William Hetheral (Mr C. S. Thomas) cf having been found on the 'premises of the Heathcote. Valley Hotel «fter hours was. dismissed. Defendant said he was a particular friend of the licensee, and was often at ths hotel. When the police arrived he had been in the sitting-room talking about bowls. RECEIVING A BABY. ""Myrtle <• Davie (Mr C S. Thomas) pleaded guilty to a chage of having leotived an infant in consideration of £lO, and kept it for a longer period than seven days without being licenced under the Infants Act, 1908. MiBS B. J. M Cardale, Ispoctor for the Society for • the Prevention of Cruelty to Women and Children", said she had found

a baby of two or three months eld aono in the house of defendant. There v '" " and the child was in a very bad «ndition | Defendant was r married vonian aged - years, antl sho had a child cf . . Sergeant A. G. Quartermain said defend ant had stated that she had received £lO for keeping the child, and she «'P;^ d .. to ** a further sum of £3O for adopting it. Sh. had nn license to receive cln.dren. Mr Thomas said thc of tV cb had thought thev could leave th? child wit woman wbil* tho sjl.c.tw the adoption. It was a ;ase of I.^orn®cf"Xo person must- take over Uo ci.stod} of -noUier person's cMd »».! r-Ciye money for cn ! doi"" without the chi'd harms heen le, «!lv adopts." s-;a the ir' inline a, penaltv of £5. He meant the fine to be not so "inch a punishment but as a warning to others ADJOURNED. 1 On a private information I'alph Stringer, land agent, of 'North New Brighton, was charged that, on or about Nov-omber 2oth. Jo-jo at New Brighton, having, received tne j siiin of £o 10s from one Mr I'itt, cn term", rcauiring him to account -or <-r pay ic sum to Annie May Brown, he fraudulently emitted to do so, thereby committing tlieif. He was further charged v.itli having obtained £3 5s 6d on December fth in a sinnlaAnmadj"ournment was granted until March 7 th. (Before Mr H. T. "Widdowwn, S.M.) CITIL CASE. Andrew Innes Kattrnv, secretary, of Christ-, church (Mr C. H. Holmes), claimed from William Vivian "Whitta, commission agent,of Christehurcli (Mr A. T. Donnelly), the sum of £3B, being the balance of hix months and three weeks' rer.t of a ie?idcnce at 604 'Worcester street, at £4 l-° r week, from February 3rd to August '2sth, 1U22. In the alternative plaintiff claimed the. rent on the propir ty situated • at 604 Worcester stieet, or.d also £ls for the valuo of two nat-* post? alleged to have been Trrong-fuliy removed "by defendant. Plaintiff was nonsuited on the cent e aim because no proof was forthcoming to show that the tenancv' had been centered. . On the alternative claim judgment was given for plaintiff for £ls and costs. RAKAIA. (Before Mr "Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) James Brown, for a breach of his prohibition order, was fined £'6 and cost 3, and on a second charge of a similar nature £1 and costs. For being found drunk in a railway! carriage he was fined £1 and ccsts. George Shellook, for having piocured liquor for Brown, was. fined £5 . and costs. Frederick Burberry was fined 10s and costs I f or having an unregistered firearm in ms PC OnT°c n iaim for £4l 15s Cd. for work done, brought by H. Hopwocd' against i. J. Dowler, the plaintiff was awarded £>lo, with °s csts. Mr Rowe .appeared for the plaintiff'and Mr R. Kennedy for tho defendant. I IN OTHER PLACES. • A MOTOR-CAR CASE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 23. In the Supreme Court, in the case against, Leon Myers, charged with the theft of a motor-car, his Honour intimated to the jury that - the proper course ehouid have been civil proceedings to establish the car's ownershin ' It would be dangerous at this' stage for the jury to convict. This direction was

accepted,, and a verdict of. not guilty was were not instituted by the police. CHARGES»AGAINST THE COOPERS. (PKES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGttAM.) WELLINGTON, February 28. Daniel Richard Cooper and .Martha Elizabeth Cooper wero remanded fo:i a wee,i oil four charges of unlawfully detaining children. There was one charge or murder. I4LSE PRETEXCES. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEQSAU.) DUKEDIN, February 23. . At the Polite Court, Kolund George Cola young man from Auckland was charged that, with intent to detraud, he obviinecJ by • means of false pretence, by Ttuung tot he was an employee of the Vickkiucl "Star," and was short cf monej, 'nd was waiting fur remittances from .his • plover' He was r.lso charged with obi anin" ICs ou each of two other occasions ~y representing that- he was 'a_ reporter on the -Utago Daily Times." Accused pleaded guilty to all charges. Collins had represented himself as an omnlovee of,the Auckland "Star" on a ' Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., said tint offences'* of false pretences were particularly ,-leliberate, and sentenced accused to one month's imprisonment. Accused was also remanded.to Auckland in connexion with a charge of failing to maintain his wife.