MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SUITABLE SENTENCE

FOR A WORTHLESS INDIVIDUAL

Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., who presided at -yesterday's sitting of _ the Magistrate's Court, had to deal with a man named Richard ' Ryan, who was charged with behaving indecently to three young giria in Aro Street. Accused pleaded not guilty, stating that he was drunk and knew nothing of tho occurrence, but, hearing the evidence, the Magistrate was satisfied that a conviction should be recorded. Inspector Hcndrey described Ryan as ft , worthless individual, who disliked work, and preferred to live on the meagre means of his mother, an old age pensioner. A sentence of twelve months' imprisonment was imposed. 1 HORSE ILL-TREATED. George Smith, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelly ill-troat-ing a horse by working it when it was suffering from sores on the back and shoulders. The horSe had been arrested in the morning by Captain J. Henry, Inspector for the S.P.C.A. It was harnessed to an emptv dray, in Rintoul Street. After the had inspected the horse in tho police yard,' Mr. TT.F. O'Lcary pleaded for Idniency •For Smith, who had worked tho horse' in an emergency. • Tho Magistrate .remarked that the case was not as bad as some that had come before the' Court, and, as Smith had taken some pains to protect the horse from the harness, a line of £2 ■would meet the case. ADMITTED TO PROBATION.' Charles Henry Graham appeared foi sentence on a charge of theft of toilet requisites valued at 16s; 6d. The ProOfficer's report was satisfactory and Graham was admitted to probation for six months, one of the con< ditions being that ho should abstain from intoxicating liquor. Mr. 0. C. Mazengavb appeared for the accused. SUNDAY TRADING. Several ohopliooyers in the City were pioceeded agaii'st for Hunday trading, penalties were imposed upon the following:—Neil Austin lined £1, with costs 75.; Eileen Callaghan fined 55,. with costs 75.; Archibald Miller fined 55., with costs 75.; Kathleen Dean, ordered to pay court costs ' 75.; and Margaret Barry, l ordered to pay court costs 7s. . WANDERING STOCK. As the owners of stock found wandering in City mid suburban thoroughthe following persons were penalised:—Alfred Bradley, fined 80s., with costs 75.; Maurice O'Connor (two cliargos), lined 10s., with costs 145.; and S. Stevens, ordered to pay costs and witness's expenses, totalling 13s. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. A fireman, named Francis Ccurreinans, who absented himself from the steamer Kuniara without first obtaining leave, was .sentenced to throe days' | imprisonment, and ordered to pay 7s. ccurt costs. The Magistrate directed that accused should he placed aboard his vessel if slio sailed before the expiry ol tho sentence. VEHICULAR- TRAFFIC. For breaches of the by-laws relating' t<> vehicular traffic (lighting and tho like). the following defendants were penalised:—William Jnrdine, Arthur anr ' ''''""nas Winks, all fined , l- 1 }, 10 * iiid Victor Emanuel Bcoullar, lined ss. each, la overs-

one of the foregoing cases the defendants were also ordered to pay court costs. Geqfl'rey ltadlcy, ivho rode a mvtor bicycle at night without a light, was convicted and discharged. ' OTHER CASES. Minnie Neilson pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness,-"and to a further chargo of being a rogue and a vagabond. without sufficient lawful means of support. She was fined £3 for drunkenness, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment on the charge of vagrancy. Under tho City By-Law No. 988, a young woman, named Amelia Anderson, was charged with keeping a house or ill-lame. Mr. P. "W. Jackson, who appeared for the accused, applied for a remand, aud tho Magistrate fixed March 20 as the date for tho hearing of the case. Bail was allowed in the 6um of £10, and one surety of £10. Amy Hunt, who procured beer during tho currency of a prohibition order in force against her, was lined £1, with costs 7s. Thomas Connelly, who procured tho liquor for Hunt, was fined £2, with costs 7s. Lucy Mitchell admitted having entered -the Imperial Hotel during the currency of a prohibition order in force against her. She was fined 205., with costs 7s. Two first-offending inebriates, who appeared before His Worship, wero treated in the usual lenient manner.

ARBITRATION COURT FIXTURES

Following are the approximate dates of fixtures mado for _ sitting of tho Court of Arbitration:—Palmerstozi North, March 27; New Plymouth, March* 30 ; Wanganui, April 3; Napier, April 5; Blenheim, April 11; Nelson, April 17; Wellington, May 1, /