MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 51, 23 November 1929, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES Mr. E. Pnge, S.M., presided in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Allan Farquhar Young, aged 57. on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Accused, who was stated by ChiefDetective Lopdell to be “a loafer and a man who would not work,” had victimised Mr. A. Harper, secretary of the Welfare League. The latter had given the accused, who was a married man with eight children, every assistance, but the accused had obtained various sums of money, amounting to £l9 in all by means of false pretences. Young, who had been partially assisted since 1920 by charitable aid, had submitted a bogus telegram to the effect that he was to be sent a sum of money, which, however, was subsequently found to be a scheme on his Henry Smith was fined £2 and costs, iij default seven days’ imprisonment on a charge of having assaulted Samuel Thompson. For having behaved m a disorderly manner Cecil Angell Banks and Albert Winter were each lined £l. The Magistrate, in convicting the men, said that he thought each had consumed some liquor during the day, with the result, that they had subsequently behaved in a disorderly manner. Banks, with some grievance or other, had gone to a house in Nelson Street, where Winter resided, and the two men had engaged in a struggle at the front gate in view of passers-by. William Henry Jervis, Janies Fowler, and Stanley George Luxton were fined £2 each for being found unlawfully on the premises of the Terminus Hotel after hours. Jervis was also lined £7 for giving a wrong name and address to the police. The three defendants told the police when they entered the hotel that they were service-car drivers, and had booked accommodation in the hotel for the night. Jervis, however, was not a servicecar driver, but a farmer of Makara. Alfred Crosscy was fined £5 for trespassing on the Trent ham racecourse while being a prohibited person. Albert Henry O’Malley was fined £1 for being found on licensed premises after hours. For fighting in Taranaki Street, Jeremiah Condon and Hugh Stevens were each fined £l. On a charge of having delivered coke short of the quantity purchased or purported to be sold, K. Herlihy was fined £5 and costs. Mr. Mountjoy, of the Labour Department, said that it appeared the defendant had been carrying on his business in a careless manner and that was really the cause of the trouble. Robert Tait was fined £2 for having cast offensive matter. On a charge of having an unlicensed radio set in his possession, William James Blackman was fined £5 and costs. On a like charge W. Prior and George Pearce were each fined £l.