MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

A young man named John Maine, on remand, appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., on four charges of stealing various articles, of a total vahie of £4 14s, from a boardinghouse, a hotel porch, and a eecondhand shop. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. An inebriate named Sarah Jamieson was ordered to pay £2 Is, cost of medical treatment. The alternative was fixed at fourteen days' imprisonmeni. Three times previously convicted for insobriety within the last six months, John Mansfield, on his reappearance today, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Thomas M'Laughlin, also charged with intemperance, waa fined ss, or, in the alternative, twenty-four hours' imprisonment. Several first offenders were dealt with. Owing to illness, Alexander M'Donald,. on remand, was unable to answer a charge of stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 14s, the property of Edward Pritchard. He was further remanded. For commencing a building without a permit, Frederick Walter Boyd and Joseph James Moore, were each fined 10s, with costs £1 10s. William Garthgate White, also charged with failing to maintain his wife, was fined 20s, with costs £1 Is, in default seven days' imprisonment. James M 'Alpine, charged with disobedience of an order of maintenance in favour of his wife, elected to be tried by a jury. He was remanded till the 2bth inst. Bail was fixed at £10, and one surety of the same amount. Prohibition orders for one year were issued against William Louis Allen and Mary Sprowell. In prosecuting Robert Daniel, the owner of a dangerous dog, Mr. O'Shea, for the City Council, said that the canine was a nuisance to tram conductors on the Brooklyn line. It invariably flew out at passing trams, and had bitten some of the conductors. Defendant was fined £2, with costs £2 4s ,• in default, seven days' imprisonment. The question of making an order for the control or destruction of the dog was deferred. For riding a bicycle without a light, each of the following offenders were fined ss, with costs (7s) : — Leslie Clelland Charles, James Ewen, George Hood, Reginald Frank Skelton, Norman M'Pherson, Benjamin Mathews, and Geo. Henry Noad. Wm. Gee was fined 10sj with 7s costs. Joseph Sp.ince, who drove a vehicle across the intersection of two streets at an Excessive speed, was fined 20s, with costs (7s). Trouble between two women in Hainingrstreet was responsible for Nellie Young Hee, a European, being fined £2, with costs (Us). The alternative was fourteen days' imprisonment. For being intoxicated while in a tramcar, John ' Clark, who pleaded guilty, was fined ss, with costs (16s). Thft City Council proceeded against David Lloyd Clay, medical practitioner, on a charge of hosing his garden without, the svatcr first passing through a meter. Defendant did not appear. It was stated that the inspector in the employ of the corporation saw a boy using the hose at 8 p.m. on the 13th December in defendant's presence. The inspector spoke to defendant, who admitted he had no meter. It was also said that defendant had stated that he was ignorant of the regulation on the subject. A fine of 10s, with costs (28s) was inflicted. An order was made that Henry Julius Ackerman should contribute 5s per week towards the support of his mother.