MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 224, 18 June 1929, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES Police and maintenance cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday were dealt with by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M. For using obscene language in a public place, Eric Lobb was fined £2 10s;, in default five days’ imprisonment For drunkenness he was convicted and discharged. George Keenan, alias George Jones, aged 35, who had a list of twenty-one previous convictions, was fined £2, in default five days’ imprisonment, for a third offence of drunkenness. . For his second breach of a prohibition order, he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. A plea of guilty was entered by John Connell, a labourer, aged 41, who was charged with failing to account to the A.M.P. Society for £l4 10s. sd. Chief. Detective Lopdell stated that,, accused had been employed by the society for three weeks in 1925. In the first two weeks he accounted to the society for the money he'collected, but during the third week' he collected £l4 10s. 5d., which he did not account for. He had said that after collecting the money he had started drinking, and then had gone, into the country. Since that time he had; also been in Australia. As far as was known, concluded Mr. Lopdell, he had been conducting himself satisfactorily. The probation officer (Mr. T, P. Mills), considered that the case was’one which, could be met with a term .• of probation. The Magistrate accordingly admitted Connell to probation for two years.. Two members of the crew’ of the oiltanker Brunswick (which was scheduled to leave here last night), appeared on a charge of unlawfuly attempting to convert to their own use a motor-car valued at £65, the property of Francis Henry Holz. The men, Oli Olsen, aged 27, and Olaf Eriksen,., aged 28, i both pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Ward stated that about 11.45 p.m, bn Sunday a constable saw the men open the . door of the car, which was standing in Jervois Quay. They got in the car, and struck a match, after which the car moved slightly, as if the hand-brake had been released. The self-starter was then heard being used. The constable accosted the two men, who appeared to be a little under the influence of liquor, and they explained that they thought the car was a: taxi, and that they wanted to return, to their sbip. The Magistrate remarked that their story was a good one, but he was not prepared to accept it. Each accused was fined £1 155., and ordered to pay the expenses of a witness. MAINTENANCE CASES A sentence of twenty-one days’ imprisonment was imposed on Charles Joseph Monique for being in arrears on an or-, d e for his wife’s support He is to be released on payment of £5. •■■■ Oliver James Weight was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being £l3 15s. in arrears on an order fur the maintenance of his children. He is to be released on payment.of the arrears. Joseph. Saunders was sentenced to one week’s imprisonment on each of two charges—one of being in arrears on an order hr his wife’s support, and the other being in arrears bn an order made in respect of his child’s support. On the first charge the warrant is to be suspended provided he pays £l. Is. a week, and o,n the second so long as he pays 16s. a week; " . Robert Snowden Bush was sentenced to twelve days’ imprisonment for being £ll Ils. 6d. in arrears on an order for his wife’s support, and to five days’ imprisonment for. being £5 in arrears on an order for his child’s support. In each case he is to be released bn payment of the arrears. 1 ' ■

Ox. a charge of being £l4 15s. 6d. in arrears on a maintenance order made in respect of -his wife, Edward Arthur Gojey was ; sentenced to. fourteen days’ imprisonment. He is to be released on payment of £lO, on account,, of the arrears; • , George Lewis Bertram was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for being £4 10s. in arrears on an order for the support of his two children. He is to be released on payment of the amount owing. In addition, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £l.

For disobeying the terms of a maintenance i order made in respect to his chil George Mitchell, junr., was fined