MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with police cases in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning. Alfred Charles Dickens, a fireman, aged 27, and Edward Campbell, a trimmer, aged 22, were each sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment for having unlawfully deserted from the lonic at Wellington on October 2G. Mr. J. S. Swan, who represented the Shaw, Savill Co., said that when the vessel was ready to sail at 5 p.m. on the date in question four members of the crew, including the two accused, were found to have deserted and taken their belongings with them. As a result of this the ship did. not sail until 7 p.m., as substitutes had to be found. For unlawfully assaulting a girl by bumping in to her. James Blackstock, a carpenter, aged 32 was fined £5. in default one month's imprisonment. Evidence went to show that accused bad made signs to two young girls in .Milliners Street about 10 o'clock on Friday night. When the girls, who were standing by the Taranaki Street tram stop, turned around to look for their tram the accused again made signs to them ami finally went and bumped into one of the girls. The girls told Senior-Ser-gean Scott, jvho arrested Blackstock, that the latter had followed them from Courtenay Place. Accused, for whom Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared, pleaded not guilty, saying that he bad not bumped into the girls at all. He had taken a few drinks and was under the impression that he knew them. "Girls must not be molested in this way.” said the Magistrate, in convicting Blackstock. ‘This man seems to have been forcing his unwanted attentions on the girls, probabl.y with :i view to striking up an ticqiiu Inta nee wit h them.”