THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18969, 6 April 1927, Page 4

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. TUESDAY. (Se:'ore Mr E. D. Jloslev, 3 ) PAYS FOR .MEDICAL ATTENTION. While he «'JS in gaol on a drunkenne.-, cUrge, George Duncan Loekhead a <*ed 1.1 yei.rs, traveller, incurred medical exoense* amounting to 17s Ed. Appearin S ve.nerdv before tnc Court, he was convicted'and discharged on the charge of drunkenness but was ordered to pay the 17s 6d, in default inree days ;mpn;ojmcn!. '•TWO BAD YOUTHS." Two youths admitted liavins stolen ten shillings' worth of grapes, vhich belonged to henry Gates, of Aldington. Thev were Basil Thomas Nicholson and Noivnan I'ettitt who -iveie described by the police as bein™ "very unsatisfactory boys," who should be aent to the Borstal Institute, Invercarsill. "They're v eil known, vour Worship,'" said Senioi-Serjtant Martin." "They've" h?en before the Court previously. . ." Nicholson stems to be the worst of the pair. You frill .see from his list of convictions that that is so. . . Both are out of employment, and 'hey will not work. A term at the Borstal Institute would probably do them :-ocd. They so about together, and should be separated somehow." The Probation Officer, Mr Bissett, addressing the Court, said "They are very unsatisfactory. They cannot be supervisee!. I have warned them, but they, fake 110 notice." The Magistrate orderfd that both be detained in the Borstal Institute, Invereargill, for a period not exceeding eighteen months, with a special recommendation that they be kept well apart SEAMAN ASSAULTS CHINESE. Chinese witnesses played an important part in the case in which a seaman, Jack Tsylor, aged 25 years, denied having assaulted a Chinese laundryman, Yee Kee, in Mancheater street, City, on Monday night. An Oriental interpreter obtained from Yee Kee a story to the effect that after r. scuffle in a Chinese shop in Manchester street, the sailor bit tha Chinese on the back with his fist in the street. It would then be about a quarter to ten o'clock. Two or three others were about at the time. Taylor and another youn<• man named George Tippler went into a Chinese shop and asked for a box of matches. An iron, it was alleged, was thrown at the Chinese behind the counter by Taylor when he was refused the matches. Cries for help caused other Chinese, including Yee Kee, to go from a near-by shop to (lie footpath, where Taylor, running from the other Chinese shop, struck Yee Kee. "I hit him in self-defence," Taylor told the Court. "He had a stick and was going to hit me. . . I got in first." He admitted that he ar.d Tippler had had drinks together at o o'clock, but denied that they were members of "the Moonlight gang" that the police said operated in a suburb. "Are you sure you don't belong to it?" asked Senior-Sergeant Martin. "I've never heard of it," Taylor answered him. "There's no gang as far as I'm concerned." "Do you belong to the' Moonlight Gang'?" asked Mr J. B. Batchelor (solicitor defending Taylor) of Tippler, who also gave evidence. —"No; I've never heard of it." "Were you drunk?" the Senior-Sergeant wanted to know. Tippler replied in the negative, but admitted they had both had "some" at five o'cTock. "You weren't five-eighths gone, were you?'' enquired Mr Mosley. "Oh! no, Sir. We weren't even a quarter gone!" "But just ripe enotigii for a joke with a Chinaman, eh?" smiled the Senior-Sergeant. "Chinese, for the most part lav,--abid-ing citizens, are entitled to as mucn protection as 4 white man in this Dominion of New Zealand," Mr Mosley declared. Ho held Taylor guilty and convicted ar.d fined him £2, and ordered him to pay expenses amounting to 2Cs Gd, in default 11 days' imprisonment, with hard labour. IN COURT IN STOLEN CLOTHES!

The unique spectacle of a defendant appearing in Court in stolen clothes was witnessed yesterday, when Edward Joseph Foley, a 20-vear-old farm hand, of Waimate, appeared. He had robbed rooms of articles belonging to others in Tai Tapu, Christchurcli, R&ngiora, and Kaiapoi. He pleaded guiltj to twelve charges of stealing goods belongin" to Frank Ainsworth, John Junes, Maurice O't'onnell, James Armstrong, Frcdcnck Hampton, Edward Dransi field, Edwin L. Lcc, Patrick O'Connor, William Murphy, the Balvation Arroy, Patrick Delargcy, and Arthur G. Ennis. Their total valu« was about £26 14s 3d. "The clothes lie is wearing arc sto.cn, Paid Chief-Detective Lewis "but we can t take them away from him because lies jot none of his own." , Explaining the case, the Chief-Detective told tii« Bench that Foley had been going round the countrv robbing rooms and selling the articles." H« had done crime alter crirao and did not work. For the accused, Mr A. A. McLaclilati said (hat the facts as stated By Chief-Detective Lewis were correct. "His intellect does not seem to be whit it should be,' he ended. In convicting and ordering Foloy to ue detained for two years in the Borstal Institute, Invsrcargill, Mr Mo3iey observed that the thefts were particularly mean onesthefts from which the public was entitled to expect to be protected. YOUTH'S LAPSE. Because of his youth, and because it was the first offence, his Worship suppressed the name of » youth who pl?aded fPJiUy to having stolen 10s 8d worth of bullets from a City hardware firm. He had taken the ammunition from the place where ho had been employed for three yegrs at the suggestion of gnolher boy. "He placed on probation for twelve months, said ill Mo»l?y to Mr R. Twynelum, who represented the }»d. A WOMAN STEALS. "It was the- impulsive act of a poor woman in impov?rishtd with * young'baby,' 1 ssid Mr A, 13, White, for (he woman, Jsellie Wfillbourn. aged 30 yearf, had pleaded guilty to having stolen a, baby's shawl. from a pram. It waS va.ued. at 40s and' was the property of May Maw-dosiev-Xflsh, Christchurch. . Defendant was release* r>n prooation lor twelve months. £350 INVOLVED. Charged with receiving various sums of money totaling £950 and with fraudulently failing to accoiint for them to the Canadian Government Mercantile Marine, Limited, William John Sullivan, sged 'JS years, agent, was remanded to appear on Tuesday next. | Bail was allowed, accused in £230 with one surety in. £250. He was directed to report daily to the police. , I "He is a married man—recently .married, said Chief-Detecitve Lewis. "There s flotlims previously known against him. tie lias been using what is known as ihe ™ke-up Bvstem'. ... He knew for a, fortnight that this charge was pending. He could have got away then if he had wanted to.' ELDERLY WOMAN'S THEFT. An elderly woman pleaded guilty to a charge of the theft of a. ten shilling postal note and pleaded for the suppression from pub!ic»tion of her name. The remarked with a sxiiile that 6u«proseion was generally applied in cases wlier? the accused was very yquhg, but as the woman had a. clean record, she was "young eiiough" to her name supAroused was convicted and ordered to come lip for sentence when called upon, on condition that sho refunded the money at once. CIVIL BUSINESS. , (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment wa3 given for the plaintiS iu the following undefended cas<?3 with costs:—W. H. v. J. H, Eingi, £1; Graham, Wilson, and Smellie v. G. McDonald, J8) 4s; Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd. v, Kan Fong, . £6 16s 6d; Thomas Perry and Soil v. J. T. Dowler, £25 15s Od; W. H. Simms and Sons, Ltd. v. X. Garrow, £lO Is 6d; Mrs A. Keene v. R. Alexancley, £lO 33; Hammond and Turner, Ltd. v. R. L. Thornton, £6 14s; Hurst and Drake, Ltd. v! B. Jones, £1 10s; J. J. Nivsn r.nd Co., Ltd. v. W. F. Gardyne, 13s 6d; T. W. Barrow v. 0. Lnnev, £l9 7s 6d: J. A. Crockett v. J. H. Borton, 17s sd; X.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Ltd. v. P. J. Fitzgerald, £l6 Cs 4d; same v. James Jones, £1 lis 3d; same v. L. Bryan, £1 11a 'fed; same v. V. Hines, £4 Is; same v. J. Foster, £3 14s 3d; same v. W. Webster, £3 2s; White Star Tourist Services, Ltd. v. E. C. Constant, £ls; C. H. Flanagan v. R. Robertson,' £ls 17g; J. A. Crockett v. R. Alexander, £23 17s lid; C. S. Thomas v. Leslie Macbeth, £4 4s; H. Donovan v. R. J. Hadden, £IOO 7s; J. Rattray and Son, Ltd. v. A. and E. Beaumont, £l7 1 s 4a; R. W. England and ~ons, Ltd. v. H. F. Hurley. £2 19s 2d; Hayward Bros, and Co.. Ltd. v. E. W. Sergeut. £1 9s; Fame v. C. Tout", £23 18s lrl; tani? v. A. E. Parkcp, £llO 4s 2M ; Ford Motors (Canterbury),' Ltd. v. G. Wtll'pijrn, £ll 13 4t|; ' same v. 'A.

Bjuci. £l7 ISs Id; same v. J. Vt. Clark, £■2 Oi r„1. M. Flanncry was ordered to pay C. Pettcrson the sum of £9 2s Gd forthwith, in default 10 days' imprisonment. Poharama was ordered to pay J. Lamb the sum of £lB 19s forthwith in default 20 days' imprisonment. S. L. Lovett was ordered to pay }V. Greenhill the sum of £6 6s forthwith, in default 7 days 1 imprisonment, tho warrant to be suspended so long as de'otor pays £l, and the balance at 5s a. week. POSSESSION OF TENEMENT. Emma Esther Shaw claimed from Ernest TVoulford possession oi a tenement at 67 Stewart street, and £25 10s for arrears of rent. An order for possession on or before April 12th was mado and judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed; CLAIM FOB COMMISSION. E. M. Mclvenna, land agent, Cashe] street (Mr G. A. Connal), claimed from George M. Julius, land salesman (Mr W. J. Stacey), the sum of £IOO, being- half the commission ot £2OO received by defendant in connexion with the sale of the Phoenix Hotel, Papanui, which commission plaintiff and defendant agreed to shnro equally. After hearing evidcnco, the Magistrate, gave judgment for the plaintiff for £IOO with costs. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF. George Fox Webster, licensee of the Excelsior Hotel, Christchurch (Mr Inder) sued Frank A. Tate, farmer, Kaikoura (Mr C. S. Thomas), for £193 7s, being the amount of a cheque drawn by the defendant and payable to the plaintiff, which cheque was_ dishonoured, it being alleged that the defendant well knew it to he valueless. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £163 7s and costs. Plaintiff elected to be non-suited for the balance.