THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 5

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL SATCttDAY. (Bc'ure Mr K. 1). Mosloy, S.M> DRUNK KNNESS. Charged with helpless drunkenness on the Kaiapoi railway station. William Leonard Campbell, labourer, need -10 years, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and ordered to pay medical expense?, in default 4S hours imprisonment HAD LANCIItUiK. "There v.rro women about when he used th* 1 lan?uas»" raid .Senior-Sergeant It. A. Martin in referring to Arthur Le>hke. lab* ourer, a sod 'l I vear*. who admitted having used obscene language in Madras street on Friday. i # «» He was ronvieted and fined i' 3, in default one month's imprisonment. NAMK SUPPRESSED. A younj; man, li'J years of aire, was I'hargod with having stolen A'.H i>s 11 <! received by him when an officer of tho Government at Otau* tan. His name was suppressed in the meantime, and a remand to appear at Invercar* gill was granted. Chirr-Detective "W. C. L.ewis said that prisoner was employed by the Post and Telegraph Department, Prisoner .said he had refunded all the money but that did not alter the fact that ho had made the defalcations. For the young man, Mr F. D. Sargent stated that he had been, he understood, quite a good servant of the Department, but that, unfortunately, he was employed in a small office at which the man in charge embezzled ±'soo. This, counsel said, had an influence on the accused. Largely it was due to the example of the elder man that the charge had been brought against him. Because of his youth and because his mother was a widow in ill-health, counsel asked that the accused's name be suppressed. "There may be some doubt about the ease.*' said his Worship. "I don't wish to do him any harm, so X will order supprcs* sion of his name." Bait was allowed. CHILDREN'S COURT. (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., and Mrs H. F. Herbert, J.P.) A plea of not guilty was entered by a 11-year-old boy who was charged with hav« ing stolen a pair of push chair wheels belong* ing to a Papanui woman. After hearing tho police evidence tho Bench dismissed tho charge. IMMIGRANT'S LAPSE. A young immigrant, 15 years of age, was admonished and discharged for having .stolen a box of chocolates atid a slab of choco* late on Friday. It was stated that tho lad had visited n shop to purchase an ice-cream; but as no ono was present he ntolo the sweets And. mounting his cycle, rodo off. He wan, how ever. seen !>y tho proprietress of tho shop who knew him. "You know you mustn't do this sort of thins >n this Dominion," said Mr Mosley lo tho boy. "I suppose you wero born'here." "No—l was bom in Ktigland nt Barrow-in-I'urncM." was tho reply. "Well, you nrc in a young country now"; Mr Mosley told him, "and you must always db the right thing. . . . Nothing but the best will do here, you know."