MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 114, 7 February 1920, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MINOR CHARGES. Mr. E. Page, S.M.. presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court held yesterday, and dealt with tho police cases. Daniel, Casey, on remand on a chargo of having been found helplessly drnnk at Levin n week ago, was ordered io pay 176. fid. medical expenses, in default seven days' imprisonment, Two first offenders were each fined ss. Lillian Playtcr pleaded guilty to cornfitting threo breaches of her prohibition order, and was fined ,£3 in all. Mr. J. A. Scott appeared . for Bruce Chote nnd Maurice Clifford, who were charged with having broken three telegraph insulators at Titahi Bay on Decomber, 1-1. It was stated that; the indiscriminate uso of firearms in the locality was becoming, a decided danger. On the day in Question a bullet penetrated tlic.iwind-screen of a motor-Mr and passed between two children who wero seated in the car. Tho defence set up wa9 that there was no proof that the boys even fired their rifles. The hearing occupied a considerable time, nnd His Worship held that there was not sufficient evidence to enter a conviction. The Magistrate warned tho defendants to he very careful in future how they used their rilles. A fine of i£l was inflicted on Alfred Croft, who was convicted of committing a breach of his prohibition order. Ifaac Misraoki, for whom Jlr. P. W. Jackson appeared, was charged with having, as a second-hand dealer, purchased goods from a boy under the ago of 10. Chief Detective Ward said that tho goods had been stolen. Defendant admitted tho purchase, but eaid that he was under tho belief that the goods belonged to a woman from whom he had, through the boy, previously bought goods. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay 9s. costs. | f For driving a motor-car along Thorndon CJuny in a, manner dangerous to tho public, Charles Douglas Pulsford was fined i 3, with 15s. costs.