MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

_—_«, MONDAY (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) BOOKMAKING Rana Jordan, a taxi-driver, aged 25, pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker at Riccarton on November 10. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said the accused came under .the noticeroi two of the inspectors in Riccarton racecourse and & Detective McClung on Saturday. He was standing about opposite the birdcage, and money seemed to be passing between him and some others. -When the inspectors went to challenge him-hemoved away. It had been found that the accused had been laying odds of 10 to 1 for a win and five to one for a place He had £3 15s 7d when arrested Jordan was fined £lO, and was ordered to pay costs, and in default oi payment within 21 days he was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment. ASSAULT Frederick James Jones, aged 46; (Mr A. C. Brassington), pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting John Henry O'Callaghan at Addington on Novemr ber 10. He also appeared for sentence on a charge of being found unlawfully on the enclosed premises of O'Callaghan. He pleaded guilty to both charges, and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on the first charge, and to three months on the second, the terms to be cumula--1 Senior-Sergeant J. Fox said that on the evening of November 10 the accused went to O'Callaghan's house, where his wife, from whom he was I separated, was the housekeeper. AcI cused had threatened to "dp for his wife and for O'Callaghan. A fight had started, and Jones had struck I O'Callaghan with a heavy walking stick. When Mrs Jones appeared on the scene she obtained possession of the stick, and belaboured Jones with it The stick was Droduced m court in two pieces and with blood marks on one end. Senior -Sergeant Fox asked that something should be done to make Jones keep the peace. He had 21 other convictions.

INTOXICATED MOTORIST Michael Joseph Swords, aged 27 (Mr R. Twyneham), pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in charge oi a motor-car in Cathedral sauare on November 10. Senior-Sergeant Fox said that a constable saw a car driven by the accused proceeding very erratically along Colombo street. He followed it, and jumped on to the runningboard, and when the car was stopped in Cathedral square, the accused was found to be drunk. He had a conviction for a similar offence in 1933, when he was fined £5. Mr Twyneham said the accused, a married man with six young children, had been to the races, and had had a little more liquor than was good for him. A friend had been in charge of the car most of the time, and the accused was to have driven it only about 200 yards. He had been for four years on relief work, and had obtained a job six weeks ago. A fine of £ls was imposed, and Swords was ordered to pay costs. His license was also cancelled. The penalty for default of payment within 14 days was fixed at one months imprisonment. REMANDED

On a charge of stealing an overcoat valued at £3, the property of Sydney Charles A'Court, Leo Brenden Collins, a labourer, of no fixed abode, was remanded until November 20. Percy Hugh Reckenzaun, aged 50, was charged with obtaining 26s from Alexander Bremner at Oamaru with intent to defraud. On the application of Chief-Detec tlve Dunlop, he was remanded until November 20. It was stated that other offences had been committed.

BY-LAW CASES Breaches of the city traffic by-laws were dealt with as follows: Noisy exhausts: Graham Brunt and William Smith, each fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. No driver's license: Eric NeVjlle HilL fined 10s and ordered to pay costs;- Harry Manson Campbell, fined 5s and ordered to pay costs. Cycling without a light: John Mackenzie Steeds, fined 15s and ordered to pay costs.. Driving at a dangerous speed: Gerald S. Vincent, fined 30s and ordered to pay costs. Parking over time limit: William Bradley, fined 10s and ordered to pay Parking without lights: Dorothy Ensor, fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. MAINTENANCE COURT (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) For disobedience of a maintenance order, Edward Dlggs was convicted and sentenced to six months* imprisonment with hard labour, the order to be suspended so long as the defendant pays £2 a week as required by the original order and 5s a week off tfie arrears. Similarly charged, John Cecil Henry Harding and William Lapslie McJar-

row were each convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.