MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S M) 1 "' . EXCESSIVE SPEED, ' A chargp of driving a motor-car at an unnafo speed through Rovans Street was preferred against a yoang man named Jame.i Ferguson. ' Constable Willotie stated that ho timed defendftnt and found that ho was driving at tho fftto, of' 33 Miles per hour through a crowded thoroughfare. Dofimilfint was conrictod and fined <£3, with costs ]9s. ( , , y.; ( -' '.VAIIioUS THIEVES., , The theft of the sum, of belonging to Margaret CNeillj was tho substance of a charge ngslinst Sdmnol Hugh Strain, who pleaded (piilty, Chief Dttoctivn Broborg stated that eccuwd entered tile City Hotel and stole the bum mentioned in tbo charge from a boarder's room. A penalty of six months' imprisonment was imposed, James Caldor, a yonng man, was charged with gjaaling a bicycle, valued at •£,%, tho

property of H. J. p a l mPr| o f Peto'ne, on No vembor 3. He plfadod guilty. On tho application of Chief Deteclivo Drober 0 ' ho las remanded until fo-marrow ( or sentence ilonrv James Wrnn wai charged with tho of tho Flat Bo* Moicery Company, on Saturday, Accused plcideil guiltv and was remanded for "spntciice until Wednesday IIESI&TINO THL POLICE A man named Alfred Tredcrtck Young op poared in answer to a ohargo of drunkotmcbs and resistins Constuble M'lvelvey ,n the. Su tion of his duty, On tho tumlt «nnT Z °. r 2i hours" impriwnmpnt, and on the latter, he wns fined JZj, in defuiilt 11 days imprisonment. MUNTENVNCJI CV&ES Tpr disobojing an ordei fdr the mainten I anco of bis wife, oricars £7 10s, Daniel Jampi DarKe \v,is tcntenoed to one month's inipn«on- , ment, tho warrant to bp susponded n the (irreiranre reduced by 10 poivicek A rfntonco of aoven day-; , lmprisonment wis lmposid on Edward William WatU for fail, ing to comply with anf order of the court fot tho maintenance of Ms father, amirs £l ">s Percivnl Urnest Stapleton was ordered to pav 12s por wook toward"! the maintenance of his wife, and Gi each ptr wook in ro pect of his two children INSOBRIETY Tourtcon persons, including two women, ap poaied in answer to ohaiges of insobriety Mary Wctkeham, who had « previous conne lions ngainst her, was fined 255, in default rrvon days imprisonment Mav M'Oowan was sent to thn Salvation Armj ftomo for three months for drunWnncis, and was convictfd on ft chargi? of boing an idlid and disoidcrlv pnson I'iftyono previous convictions nero montioncd ns against Georpo Hastings, vvho was lined 10 a and a prohibition order waq agiinst him Deemed lo he an , habitual diunUrd, George Stant wai sentenced to "1 doys imprisonment. James Collingwood was i ™ i 2fl, ' and Peter He «nossey and William Wallacfl were each fined 10) with tho usual alternative Two first offenders wero convicted and difichtrged, and fivo wcro fined 10s each