MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr E. D. Mosley. S.M.i FINE OF £3 John Patrick O'Keefe was lined £3, In default imprisonment for 14 days, on a charge of casting offensive matter in a public place <a telephone boxj. He was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. On a charge of stealing a watch and chain, valued at £l. the property of David Evans, the accused was remanded by consent until April 5. VAGRANT IMPRISONED John Francis Magneil. a labourer, aged 49, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on March 25 he was deemed to be idle and disorderly, in that he habitually consorted with reputed thieves and other persons with no lawful visible means of support. A constable gave evidence of seeing i Magneil on many occasions in the I companv of persons of evil repute. , The accused said that he had been - working in the country before coming ! into Christchurch. He pleaded that | he did not know the character ol the , persons with whom he was seen. Magneil was sentenced to imprisoninent for three months. "It is only 1 three months because I cannot make it six." said Mr Mosley. |

WOMAN CHARGED Deborah Thompson pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness and to alternate charges of being idle and disorderly. A police constable giving details of the accused woman's movements, alleged that she accosted men on many occasions, often in Latimer square. After hearing the accused, Mr Mosley sentenced her to imprisonment for 14 days on the charge of drunkenness, and to imprisonment for three months on the charge of consorting with reputed thieves and persons having no lawful visible means of support. The alternate charge, of being idle and disorderly, in that the accused had insufficient lawful visible means of support, ■was dismissed. BREACH OF ORDER Charles Major Barnett was convicted and fined 10s, in default imprisonment for 24 hours, on a charge of drunkenness: for procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against himself, Barnett was fined 20s, '* ~-default imprisonment for 24 hours. 2!r A. J. Malley appeared for the accused and apnlied for suppression of Barnett's name, but the application was refused. J Mr Malley asked that his client be ! allowed seven days in which to pay ) the fines. | Mr Mosley: He will get seven days j if he does not pay. ; Barnett was allowed 24 hours in j to pay the tines. , XAME SUPPRESSED A married woman, aged 24, whose i name was suppressed, was charged i with stealing three blankets and other ( articles, valued at £3 7s 6d, the pro- j Perty of Emma Mabel Jordan, on i March 2. , Chief-Detective W. H. Duniop said ; that the woman and her husband rented a cottage from the complainant. ■''hey left the place later, and the articles mentioned in the charge were missing. They were traced to the accused, but had been sold to a pawnbroker and disposed of by him. The accused was placed on probation i *ot' 12 months, and ordered to repay j toe value of the goods by instalments. On her own application, the magistrate ordered her name to be supPressed. I

BY-LAW CASES The following by-law cases were dealt with: — Overtaking at an intersection: Walter Spencer G. Milne (voluntary ap- ' pearance 5s and costs, j Parkins over a time limit: Kenneth B. Bain, lined 10s and costs; George | Gould, 10s and costs: Mrs Marjorie J Mac Donald. 20s and costs. I Unlicensed heavy traffic vehicle: Os- | will Arthur Fairbairn. 30s and costs: Eric Blake. 20s and costs. Motor-lorry overloaded: Eric Blake, lined 10s and costs: Albert Dawson, 10s and costs. Vehicle and load, exceeding 10 tons, not having multi-axles: Albert Dawson, convicted and discharged. Cycling on footbridge: Leslie Collett. Stephen Johns. 5s and costs. Dangerous speed: Leon Goldsmith. 20s and costs. Parking in a prohibited area: Henry D. Ingle. 5s and costs: Ronald Herbert Newton, 10s and costs. No driver's license: Ronald Herbert Newton, convicted and discharged: Harold Sussex, convicted and discharged. Proceeding against signal: Robert John Murley. 10s and costs. Using unlicensed vehicle: Harold Sussex, convicted and discharged. .MAINTENANCE COURT 'Before Mr H. P. Lawry. S.M.I BREACH OF ORDER j Charged with disobeying a mainten- i ance order. Lewis Walter Saunders was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for three months, the issue of the warrant to be suspended for 14 days and thereafter, provided arrears are paid off at the rate of 18s a week.