THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20469, 12 February 1932, Page 7

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. | CRIMINAL TRIALS. j ;,Jjci'o:c hie Honour Mr Justice Adams.) THURSDAY. AND EKTEE.IIX G. Ciiirenoo Bate Hazeldinc, who was charged -.villi breaking and entering ol Vntriclf and Bailey's bovaer station in 1/iverpool street, was found guilty, after the jury Had retired from 10.50 a.m. to 2.55 p.in., and ivai remanded until Monday for sentence. IXDECEMT ASSAULT. Alfred Leonard Sheedy and Herman Harold Cecil Voice pleaded. not guilty to charges or indecent assault and assault. The jury retired at 3.10 p.m. and returned at 3.40 p.m. with a Tcrdict o£ guilty on.tbo fust count. The xirieoners ivcre remanded until -Uonday. I.\"DEC£.\"T ACT. I'dvard Scott pleaded guilty to committing au indecent act ir- Barbadoea street. Tin- charge was substituted for one of indecent assault, to which the accused had pleaded not guilt 2*. The prisoneL mus remanded until Honday for Ecntonca on tho amended charse. GUILTY OF KECEIVIMG. Dauiol Tergusson pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering the dwelling-houso of Jiargaret Crockett and stealing a gold watch and '-is in money; and also v/ith receiving •.he goods, knowing tlieip. to have been diiibvnosilv obtained. '1 ho "aocuaed stated that he received the watch from a man named Lester an<t a tutu of money found in his possession from u. booliraaker. In lflply tp tho Crown Prosecutor, bo stated that ho " could not give the name of the hor?c ho had backed or .the meeting conTlio uir~ icLirerl at 4.5 p.m. and returned »t i>.m. with a verdict of guilty of receiving. , ~ The prisoner was acquitted on the rpnutinin" charges and was remanded until "nr.diiy for sentence. CASK PROCEEDING. George Banks pleaded not guilty to a char"<* Oi indecent assault. Tho Court adjourned until ' 10.13 this morning. MAGISTERIAL.

WEDNESDAY. (.iieiure Mr Ji. D. Mosley, 5.11.) FINED TOR FIGHTING. Inhn I'avno ami Norman Rossiter vere each f.ned2os and costs lor fighting .» a Public " PUU N KENNF.SS. \ fir,t offender Cor drunkenness was fined 10s andcosts, in default -1 Lours' in-.pnsou-l'NF..Mri.(Jl'MKNf BOARD DEFRAUDED. Walton George Thomas ivas charged that, wiHi huciit to defraud, ho obtained from the Unemployment Board the sum ot ~ fal SoX?-SMseant Vo* said that on the forms tilled in by the defendant he made no refcr e, e" to investments and property owned by him Ho had stated that he did not under'waVco'Sd aud ordered to refund WILFUL DAMAGE. On I charge of drunkenness, Henry JoseiiU ~ • ' d ordered to pay »0s medical t-x----nt«fse< in default seven days' imprisonment. Uv ./charge of wilfully damaging two panes of" class valued at £l, the property of Nathan Clark Atkinson, ho -»vas ordered to make good thrd«masc, iu default seven days' impri-b-onnit nt. ;, eon drinking methyluteal soirits," said the Senior-Sergeant. has been on remand for medical troatmcn, fot* some time." OX ENCLOSED PREMISES. William Thomas Brown, a labourer, aged 51, pleaded guilty to a chargo of being on enclosed premises without lawful excuse, ".i also pleaded not guilty to a charge sUr-ling a bicycle, valued at £2, tha property of eomo person or persons unknov.n, ou L Senior-Ser"caut Fox said that the accused had been found in an old, unoccupied house at the corner of Tweed street and North Avon rcr.d He had bocu.vsing a bicycle winch d.d pot belong to him, for three days. Brown was convicted and sentenced to 14 ! d?ys' imprisonment.'-""with hard labour on eildi charge.

SKT FIIIE TO SCHUB. ,loim Henry Hitchins appeared for sea'cuce on charges of drunkenness and using obaceno lan"ua"e in Kiver road. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of wilfully setting fire to scrub ou tho property of Gordon Mills m Wainoni road. .. .. .< u Senior-rferguant lox said that at about a o'clock on the evening of February 4th accused was seen to light a fire in the scrub. He had used' the language complained of when accosted by the constable who had been sent for. During the past fortnight there had been a number of scrub iires in tho ■ locality, :,nd there v-as reason to believe that more trisn one had been wilfully started. The charge of drunkenness was dismissed, und on each of tho other charges Hitchina v'jt.s sentenced "to seveu days imprisonment with hard labour.

CIVIL CASES. (Before Mr Ji. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment by "default was entered for the plaintiffs in tlie following cases:—Joseph Bradshaw v. A. Burnett. £8 IGs; E. A. Sutcliffe t. M. K. Wright, £lB 9b lid; A. Beaton v. William Gardiner, £4 lbs; Trade Auxiliary Company of Kew Zealand, Ltd., v. Besta Manufacturing Company, £3l lis 3d; R Arlow and Co., Ltd. v. W. Harrison, £7 J Os- W. K. Wendelkin y. H. Taigel, £1 111 sd-'Dalgety and Co., Ltd., v. P. A. Turner, £IOB 16s lid; A. E. Gledhill v. C. F. C. Tobeck, i'l Ha ad; Todd Motors, Ltd., v. K. J. McLean, costs only; Fletcher, Humphreys and Co., Ltd., v. N. Radcliffe, £7 5s JOd * 'Sugden v, J. 11. Clarkson, So 5s- 'same v. W. Clarkson, £5 7s; Benjamin's, Ltd v J. I>. Mason, £lB 19s 7d; J. Ta.it, ltd'' v J. Stevens, £8 10s 3d; Wreckers, Ltd' v" J- G. Becconsall, £1 ss; Webley, Sons and Gofton, Ltd., v. A. Burrage, £3 Gs 9d; Henery Burson and Sons, Ltd., y. G *\v I-lerrick and Co., £6 7s lOd; H. ■\rlow and Co., Ltd., v. L. Sutherland, £10; 'Moody's Battery Company v. W. Alexander, "5 6d; Super Service, Ltd., v. H. J. Hooper, £2 8s 3d; Moody's Battery Company v. S. Maffey, £2; Koss and Glendinin" Ltd v. I'. Boston. £73 14s 7d; Gough, Gough, and Hamer, Ltd., v. 3ZO Broadcasting SerWce, Ltd.. 17s 2d; D. H. Brown and Son, Ltd v K. A. Emmett, £10; Royda Motors, Ltd!' v. K. P- Jarden, £39 37s 6d; tho Christchurch Press Co., Ltd., v. W. C. Spray, £0 18s.

JUDGMENT SUMMONSES, r Parker was ordered to pay Hutchison and Co Ltd., the sum of £2 4s 6d, in doana w-. imprisonment, warrant to bo" suspended provided ho pays the amount due on February rlßth^ s to pay A _ s J to^ To te sus /e"do<l P^ id^ s h O %d P e7ed "o paTo'omin- £ ICendtd Pays I£_. week. E. Thompson dc£auU 46 S day"' imprisonment, warrant to be suaMoYon/y sum of £25 6s, in default ,7 days' imprisonment.

DEFENDED CASES. i -R.u'ldin" and Investment The reUury claimed £6 10s from 1° C T White Ltd The statement of claim »t A. J. " * sofpntiant company, without out that the plaintiff Society, had " ie . P ,°Tth the possession of the furniture parted -with tne p . th(J pi ain tiff r.nd chat , te!^.^ 1 e third peVsor. thereby deprivSociety, to some th v £ Bening sufing tho Society o£ ron t. /icient to satisfy t or t ], o defendant. Judgment was g proprieturs. Super Service, Lta.,» u 12g od {roT)l Of Christchurch, u ' al "®f lrac tor. of Christchurch, thw rie ' s sul>p r.ed and work account tor peer. an d rent due. don*, also toll for £r.9 ISs Thcro v.a« a . throu"h the alleged wilfu, de'fauU and neglect of the plaintiff and was entered for the plaintiff on bolh claim and counter-claim. r* ri Moslem (Bafore Mr . c Urist church, a dairy K. K- rhor J®% Georso Kobinson, farmer, P rocoo(led „. °Burwood, horse-trainer, of Locksley s^anU j',' an alleged assault. ,'or £lO damages tor riaintiff w-13 non-soitod.