MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1910, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

A challenge to fight, made on a street corner by Owen Hickey on Friday, remained unaccepted, but the challenger • was taken in custody by Constable j Shaw. The latter's nether garments suffered in the ensuing tnss>k. Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., Hickey was «JhaTged with disorderly conduct while drunk, and with having damaged tho officer's clothes—allegations which he j admitted. For the former he was fined £2, and for the other he was ordered to I ,pay £1 3s, the value of tho damaged apparel. Penalty for d-sfault in each case was 14 days' imprisonment. Alfred Dethloff pleaded guilty to charges of drunkcnii2«s and' of using dbsceno language. For intemperance./ he was convicted and discharged, and for the other offence he was fined £5, with alternatively 21 days' imprisonment. John Phillips did not appear to answer his second offence of insobriety. He was mulcted in ths sum of 10s, the amount of his bail. Samuel Cameron was remanded for a week for medical treatment, necessitated by a drinking bout. Of a quartette of other inebriates, •three were convicted and discharged, and tihe other, out on bail, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A prohibited person named Robeit Edward Howell appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., charged with insobriety and with proem Lig liquor from Frederick Cormack. • It was..stated that accused had entered licensed premises and represented to the barman that he intended purchasing a hotel. An hour later he was found in an intoxicated condition. For drunkenness he was convicted and discharged, but for disobeying the prohibition order he was fined 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Of a number of other inebriates dealt with, James- Wilson was fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment. In the cases of Peter Middlemore, Thomas Reeves, and Harry Dunn, each was fined 10s, the option being 48 hours' imprisonment. Nominal penalties were inflicted on a number of first offenders. A young man named John Williamson was convicted, and discharged for intemperance. For disobeying an order to pay 7s 6cl ,a week towards the support of his illegitimate child, he was sent to gaol for one-month. "Through excessive drink, accused is not in ii fit stale to plead, your Worship," stud Chief-Detective Bioberg regarding Walter Fitzmaurice,' who was brought up on a charge of stealing a cigarette- case, the property of Charles John Crawford. Accused was remanded for a week for curative tieatment. William Henry Ballinger, for allowing a horse to wander, was fined 10s, with costs 7s. Judgment was given in the case of Mary Ann Harlen v. • Jefse Harlen, an application for summary separation, with maintenance and costs. The magistrate .said that the application was based on the giound that defendant had provided applicant with insufficient maintenance. He did not think it. was a case where an order for summary tepa-ration should be made, as there was evidence that defendant had contributed , support. Under the present prosecution he could not make an order for a stipulated amount of maintenance. The information was dismissed. A charge of having failed to provide maintenance for his illegitimate child ■was preferred against George Taylor. Defendant was called upon to enter into a bond of £5D and two sureties of £25 each that ho would comply with an order to pay 7s a week. He was also ordered to pay expenses, amounting to £5 9s. Penalty for default was fixed at three months 'imprisonment.