MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

' POLICE CASES;"'.I A.sitting of tlio Magistrate!s'. ; Court; was helrl yesterday morning, MnVW'.'- 6; 'Riddell,'i '], S.M.,presiding., ; - ■tiv •••.<"."•' >.y vj ,■ ' 1 DRUNKENNESS:*' Two first'; offenders. for .drunkenness .j-wero .1 .convicted;arid fined 55., in default'. M:,liours' ; - imprisonment.' /,»• • THEFT.OF MONEY. : <-[- 'f The hearing of tho charge, against . Robert, ~j Rankin, of having at Wellington. oil or about., December 2 stolon the sum';pf L !;£22jjthe .'pfp-,, £ perty of John Hennossey, wis 'continued. '> • Detective Broberg - for tho police. 1 ' . , . Prosecutor, deposed that ?he; arrireii! 'from;* New,. South Wales with accused about three , ' months.' ago.. On arrival, ' prosecutor" was ' compelled, -.to .-go].into.'hospital, "'as;,hoi",Wafe; ■suffering from pneumonia. .So lofV'£22 in . nionev and some clothing and a /bidyclo' ill * tho cnargo of accused, who; when 'ho- visited' him at tlie hospital, stated ,4hat he. hadOthe moiioy and<prop6rty. at the ,bo'arding-hp\iso;at. . which lie was staying. • came out of the hospital ho-'jvpnt "''to the " boarding-house/ was]' not: .'&s&' 1 Accuscd had authority t.ttf- spind', tli'c* . money; ho .was,simply'custodian ofait. >■ . . On being informed, that the-Court.- pro- - posed to commit him. •' fon-Arial,.; jwused.., pleaded, guilty, and 'was commjtteil';!.tb. $6.6);. Supreme Court, for- sentenced ; CIYIL BUSINESS- 1 ' V'.' IJNDEpN]>ED:c|sEa,'C :? '^; . *; Judgment by i.default was for -plain- 1 tiffs iii the following < Wellington Gas ■Company,''. 1iu1.,-v. Thomas'. M'Guire, ss'.' Id.;' costs '6?. Commercial; ; Agoncy' Co.y r Ltd.; ; v. Alfred ; G: Davics, £15' : 15s. 10d.t ; costs;£4'0s:. fid. Hfi'drts tirfd , Co. v. 'Oscar' ilbckhouso, £24'Ss\ Sd'.V'coiiW £2 14s. . ■ ; ■ ...V. JUDGMENT SUMMONS Arthur W. Pethorick, who didaiotrappeat,'' was ordered to pay Wm. HfehdrysfoGs.'Gd. boforo January 23. liv default. 10fdays' imprisonment. ,