MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3088, 19 May 1917, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASKS CHARGE OF BOOOUKING Mr. L. G. Reid, S.JI., presided over yesterday's bitting of tite llugiatrule's Court. Albert VicSir Carnegie .was charged with being a bookmaker and betting on licensed premises. The evidence for the police was that the accused took bets from a number of young men in an hotel. He had a hook containing about sixty betting entries, i At'the polico station, Carnegie made a statement that ho had taken the bets for somebody else, and that only six bets were entered by hint. Mr. O'Leary, for accused, said that the facts were not disputed. Accused received a "double" card from a friend, who\ prevailed upon him to enter the hotel, and secure the last, few bets required to fill the card. Accused made no gain over 'Hie betting. iCounsol submitted that Carnegie could not be considered a bookmaker. The minimum fine which could follow upon conviction was „E'JO. "The accused," said counsel, "couldn't pay twenty pence." Ris Worship said thai Carnegie appeared' to liavo brought himself within tho provisions of tho Act. The only difficulty lay in fixing a penally. That question woiad lio reserved. TWO-U.P OR PHILANTHROPY'? George Kompton and Henry -Scoones wero charged with playing "two-ijp." They pleaded not guilty, and were defended by Mr. A. H. HindmarshThe evidence for tho prosecution was that' a policeman saw the defenda.Ua playing. Ho was certain that the gauio was livo-up. Defendants alleged that they were merely tossing a coin to decide which ot.them I should pay tho tramfare of a small boy. They had agreed to toss twelve limes, and to consider tho man who scored fewest points tho Binall boy's debtor. After evidom'o on both sides had been heard, the case was adjourned to enablo 'the defendants to produce- the diminutive object of their charity. OTHER. CHARGES. Prank F. Dakin, for using obscene language, was fined -G3, with the alternative of tbreo weeks!" imprisonment. For insobriety, Ajinio Maud. Sales and Phyllis Kerraro were finod 20.1. «aoh, and Minnio Nelson and Michael dames Genry 10s. each. William Johnson was fined 203. for committing an indecent act. }i« was also convicted of drunkenness and dis-. chargod. For refusal to obey Iho lawful commands of the master of his vessel, Thomas Kane, a seaman, was fined 20s. Defendant's' excuse for refusing to work was that ho did not -wish to sail under a foreign boatswain.Prank Ilayward pleaded guilty to a chargo of keeping his shop open for the purpose of Sunday trading, lie was fined 20s. .lames O'Comiell, r reservist, who. in ignorance of the requirements of tho law, had failed to giv-o the Government Statistician of his change nf abode, was convicted and ordered, to pay costs 7s. Por similar offences, Rrnest .l'Mward Muscy and Thomas Patrick Alurphy, who did not appear, wero 'each fined Ifls., and cost s. Arthur Jacka was fined 103.. with costs os., for carrying milk in an unclean vessel. - Thomas Walmsler, a seaman, wn« charged with deserting from an ovor-sea vessel. He was convicted and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. BY-LAW CASES. K. H., Collins, convicted of boarding'a train and failing to pay his fare, vas ordered to pay costs. .For drivtrrg a motor-ear at more than four miles an hour past a stationary tramrar. Cleo Birio Rush was.ordered to pay costs. George Cavcll was convicted on two infcrniations for being in charge of r.n insufficiently lighted vehicle. He was ordered to pay costs. ' Skeales, who was guilty of a liko offence, was fined 205., and costs, because he had given the polico a fictitious name. Bert Power, wlio had two charges against him of having an insufficiently lighted vehiclo, and one of leaving a motor-car unattended in the street, was also fined 205., and costs. William Rittner was convicted of riding a cycle on a footpath. Ho was ordered to pay costs. .lohn Hayworth, for allowing sinok to wander, was lined 10s.. and costs. Ernest Hadley, who had similarly offonded, was fined 55., and costs. For removing sbinglo from Ma'Eara beach, Samuol Bray was . fined S.h, Stephen Bray £3, and Benjamia HOlll- - £3. A juvenile who had absconded from Weraroa State Farm, and had atferwards obtained employment as a message boy in Wellington, was charged with having stolen threo cheques and JII7 in money, the property of his employer. He was also charged with tho theft of a bicycle, valued at £5. Mr. L, Of. Roid, S.M., recorded a conviotion, and ordered the lad to bo returned to Weraroa.