MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE. AND MAINTENANCE CASES. At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr. S E M'Oarthy, S.M., presided, and hcaid the police'and maintenance cases. •Richard Honry Smith, a soldier was charged that ou October 2 lie did Meal a motoiivau valued at £200. the property of Turnbull aud Jones. Ltd. Inspector Marsack. in asking for a remand for a week, stated that the accused was glvon a lift-in the van. aud while the driver was absent for a few minutes Smith drove tho vehicle on. Further inauiries would ba\o to bo made, and it was possiblo the oharga would be withdrawn. The remand as reauested was panted and bail was allowed in £250 and two sureties of £125 cm*. TJiomaa W. Trott and Kycr Gerrit fltrp weroTomanded to appear at Westnort on Thursday on a charge of . assaulting a polico constable while In the execution of h For tasobricly Michael Soanlon was fined EOs.. in default Kcven days' imprisonment; two flrat offenders were fined 10s. each, in default 24 hours' to™ ma %W\ }l ™*&Z other was fined 205., in the alternative ?8 hours' imprisonment . A retunie. o • alor was charged with being found di'link. Thorn wore two previous convictions. He was romanded for » week .for . medical treatment.

. -MAIKirENANOK OASES. ■ ■ Ernest W. Itiggs,'who was in ■ arrears with-his maintenance to the amount pi £ waTscntenW to three months imnnsftnmeut, warrant not to issue unless anhlied for by the complainant. P Frank M'Mahon was also sentenced 0 three months' imprisonment, "arrant to be suspended until, applied for by com. nlainant. Tho arrears in this case T""pa^forL-wa,made.a ß aAnst Tack Fox, a returned soldier suflering fro id 'hell-shock, on behalf of his wife, who w eranted guardianship of the child. Sderel to piiv 10s: per week towards the lainTenanceof his child am was also nrdpred to pay costs totalling 425. , Thomas Ctonnop, Tv.ho*e- arrears .totalled ■£99 17V, was sentenced to six months iniSisonment, no warrant to issue unless anplied for by complainant.