MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.) SEAMAN NOT ARTICLED. Captain Charles Crouchcr, of the s.eamer lunpaka, pleaded guilty ton charge of carrying to sea on several voyages a seaman without having entered into an agreement with him to sign on the articles. Captain Smith, win appeared for the Marine Department, asked for a substantial penalty, because, he snid, (ho. defendant had twico already lwen convietcd for i"is kind of offence. In (his case thseaman had been on the ship for eleven days beforo .signing on. Croncher was fined .£2 and costs (75.). ALLEGED THEFTS. Heury Fr.-.ser Marshall was chavert with having stolen jewellery valued "at £K from a boardiiighousc "in Ghuznee .Street. Charges of stealing articles lc=s valuable, also, weTo made against him. On tho application of Chief-Detective Jiroberg, Jlnrshall was reminded till March 27. DRINK HIS ENEMY. Joseph Johnston, who was charged wilh Uio theft of a pair of trousers, worth Cs til., from Alexander Dimdore, said that drink was tho cause of his offence, and he Rsked tlio Coui-e to commit him to tho Inebriates Institute .-it Pakatoa Island. His \\or.slnp said that in tho present circumstances he had no power to accede to that request. He fined Johnston .£'>, and issued a prohibition order a"ainst lam. , ° OTHER CASES. For insobriety, Herman Reich was fined 205., and Jesse Underwood 10s. _ Laurence Power was fined £2 for breaking a prohibition order. For deserting from the. steamer Remucra on December 11, Thomas Hewitt was sentenced to one month's imprisonment .Sylvia M'lntyre and Gertrude Hilda N caber, who had escaped from the Salvation Army Home, where tho magistrate had sent them in consequence of a charge of theft, were brought before the Court, I ho accused had boon rearreslert by Constable M'Kelvey on the previous evening Tho Court recommitted them to the Armv Home, whither they expressed willingness to go.