MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Captain W. 11 . Hennah and Mr. E. Arnold, J. P. 's, presided at the Magistrate* 'Court this morning. A young man named James Graham, for whom Mr. Herdman appeared, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge that he stole a bicycle, valued at £5, belonging to Henry Walter Biddle. According to Acting-Detective Cameron, accused stated to him, when apprehended with informant's machine in his possession, that the bicycle was his own property. In evidence, accused urged that he had taken charge of the machine under the impression that it belonged to a friend. The Bench was of the opinion that the case was a very complicated one, and that a doubt had been created. The information was therefore dismissed. For cruelty to a horse by working it while in an unsound condition, Ernest and Samuel Bray, appearing on separate charges, were each fined £2, with costs. In addition, the former was charged with using indecent language when approached by a constable in regard to the state his horse was in. A further fine of £1 was imposed. Mr. Fitzgibbon appeared for both accused, who pleaded guilty. For intemperance, William Hadfield, once previously convicted, was fined 10s, in default forty eight hours' imprisonment. No appearance was made- by William Wilson, charged with being concerned with driving a cart over the footpath in Waripori'Btreet. Formal evidence wn* submitted, and defendant was fined £2 10s, with oofele 9s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Having hit another boy on tho head with a stone, William Barrett, 17 years of age, was charged with throwing a stone to the danger of the public. Defendant was ordered to pay costs only, amounting to 7s. A woman named Rode Somes did not appear to defend a- charge that *he had been drinking excessively. A prohibition order for twelve months was issued against her. Martin Gleeson, Charles Shields, William Rice, Frederick Petherick, and Edmund Adams were all fined, with costs, for allowing stock to wander. A fine of ss, with costs 7s, was imposed on James Howard Ridyard, for riding a bicycle in Revuis-street after sunset without a. light. For riding a bicycle on the footpath in Ingestrc-MLreet Hercules Jonaesen was fined £1, with costs 7s. At the Mount Cook Police Court today, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., John Pryse, Thoma» North, and Robert Henderson each pleaded guilty to charges of drunkennexa, ana each of them was mulcted in the sum of 10s, or in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Another man, a first offender, pleuded guilty to insobriety, and he was convicted and discharged. PETONE CASES. At a sitting of the Petone Police Court, held this morning before Messr*. R. Mothes and G. London, Justice* of the Peace, Arthur G. Moore, for drunkenne6fi, was convicted and fined 5s costs. On a charge of celling tobacco to •. boy under the age of fifteen years, Louis Truman was conVicted and dis- I charged. Charged with cycling at night without lights, Francis Cornell, V. Morris, S. O. Halse, W. 1«\ Rennie, and J. L. Morrison, were each fined 6s, with cost* 7*. James W. Bestty, for whom Mr. C. Wilson appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of cruelly ill-treating a hvno Constable Murphy rtated that Brewed had thrashed the nor*© with the bucKl*- J end of a reifl, inflicting four cuts and j taufting blood to flow. A number of other witnesses we-ro called for ihi ] prosecution. The contention of de 11dant and another witnexs was to tho effect that the animal, which was a "rank jibber," had merely bccnMruck with the leather-end of the rein. A fino of 10% with coste 18«, wan inflicted.