MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

ALLEGED THEFT OF £94 A man named Frederick James Blandford Bunnott was remanded l)y Mr. l< , . V. Frnzer, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday until September 6, on ii charge that, between July 5 and 13, ho received £04 15s. from Thomas Martin on terms requiring him to account for the money to Messrs. Climie, Coates and Co., registered patent agents, of Cbristclnirch, and did fraudulently omit to do so, thereby committing theft.

A woman admitted having been guilty of disorderly behaviour ivhilist drunk in Mnjoribanks Street. Senior.Sergqant Willis said tho woman was married, and was in tho halm of taking a child about from ono hotel io another. One AVcdnesday she went into an hotel with a man., but was so intoxicated that she was refused drink, and was turned out. The sonior-sergeant suggested that tho best thing to do would be to prohibit the woman. Convicted and discharged for drunkenness, the accused was made tho subject of a prohibition order.

Several first offenders were lightly dealt with. One of them was stated-by Senior-Sergeant Willis to bo a first offender within six months, but this was his 177 th appearance altogether. Hβ was paralysed, and had been an inmate of tho Ohiro Home, but such was his unquenchable thirst, that the authorities had refused to take him back. Latterly he had been staying at the Homo for Incurables. Accused expressed regret for getting drunk, and stated that it was the first time ho had been out since he had been in the homo. "You wanted to celebrate it," suggested His Worship. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that he remained in the Home for Incurables for six months. Arthur Lawton Stevens was fined 10s. for drunkenness, and Walter Richard Leary was fined £2, in default seven days' detention, lor the breach of a prohibition order, and was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. Peter turfhey admitted having been drunk in Manners Street, and that he wilfully damaged los. worth of crockery belonging to Antony Jones. SenioriSergoant Willis said the accused went into a restaurant, became very obstreperous, and broke a quantity of crockery. Turfhey was fined os., in default 24 hours , imprisonment, on tho charge of drunkenness, and was ordered to make good tho damage done to tho crockery, in the alternative Tl hours' i imprisonment. A mere hoy named Clarence Nelson John Bovey 'pleaded guilty to bping .an idle and disorderly person, having insufficient menus of support. Accused was remanded until September 5 in order that inquiries might bo made regarding him. It was stated that the youth 'was arrested early yesterday morning, when he was found sleeping out.