MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

To-day 'fi 6itting of tha Magistrate's Court w-as presided over by Mr. W. <3,' Eiddell, S.M. Station-Sergeant KaTby represented the police. Charges of being found drunk and of toeing an idle and disorderly person were preferred against Maud Francis. Eemand waa granted for a week on defendant's application to allow of Francis adducing evidence on the second charge to which she pleaded not guilty. She ;v,'a6 convicted for drunkenness. Several first offenders, charged with insobriety, w«re dealt with in various penalties. Two, who did not appear, forfeited their bail. •~jA middle-aged woman, Margaret IrfC'ing, pleaded guilty to charges *of 'drunkenness and of being idle and dieorderly. She -was fined 10s, with tho alternative of 48 hours in gaol, for tho fibst offence, and was sent to gaol for three montha for the eecond. "The drink is always getting m© into trouble," said-an elderly man, Thomae Jtiiynolds, charged with inebriety, who asked to be sent to Rotoroa. Inebriate Sfome. 'His request was granted. He is to remain at Eotoroa for twelve Months. Charged similarly. .Cecil For.teeeue was fined 10s. Default was fixed at' 48 hours' imprisonment. ' Henry Richard Baldwin pleaded ■guilty to over-indulgence and a breach of* a prohibition order. On the first charge he was merely convicted, but for itjle breach of the order he was fined £2, ttnth the alternative of .14 days in gaoL <An old offender, by sane Benjamin -&rron6, with several aliases, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for the theft of an overcoat, and io a term of three months for assaulting tie own-.-er of the coat. Sentences are to be On remand a youth named David , iWilsoh was charged with the theffc of a rifle valued at £3 15s, the propeity of -the New Zealand Goveinment. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was deifended by Mr. Jackson. Wilson was "-formerly a porter at the Trentham 'Hotel. Certain evidence wae taken as ,(tothe presence of accused 1 at the hotel, /and the fact that the rifle was in the ■■kitchen for some time. Accused made a j ■ statement to iho. arresting detective, De- ! -itective Cassells. to the effect that the ! jcook &t the hotel, Molly Sheehan, had I Md him to take it. He subsequently -Spawned it. Sheehan swore she had Inever seen Wilson, who denied stealing 'Ahe weapon, wkhich had been missing ieince 1908. Accused wae remanded tifi ' Wednesday next, ih.& same baal being jaUowed in '£5 and- one surety of £5. Wey Key was charged with .having in 'his possession a false weight. Defendant pleaded that the proper weight was stolen before tlie inspector arrived. A 'fine of 20s was<--imposed, with costs 7s. For a breach of a. prohibition order, 'Gilbert Alexander Craig was fined 20s, .jwith costs 7s, the alternative being fixed Jat seven days' imprisonment. A prohibition order was issued against ''John Miller. Costs- 4s were ■ ordered. For the disobedience -of a maintenance 'order in regard to her chiJaren, Mrs. O'SuUftfan was fined 20s, the alternative fixed at ©even -days' imprisonment. .Grace .Stoddart (represented by Mr. 'P. W. Jackson), in reply to a niznilar icharge, pleaded that she had fallen into■arrears owing to having been, incapaci-. .Stated by a poisoned hand. The matter-i-jwas adjourned for a month, and during interval defendant is to work off, some of the arrears. Willie B. Jackson '•was JJentenced to one month's imprisonment in Auckland Gaol, for the disobedience of a maintenance order, arrears ■amounting to .£l2 16s. Mr. P. 'W. Jackson appeared for complainant. " ■ Mr. Horace Baker, J.P.,. presided over this morning's sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court, when he dealt with the following inebriates; — A. Irwin, Hans Hansen, and Henry Reich were each fined ss, the option being twenty-four lours' imprisonment; 4. Quiland, John Mac Donald, and one first offender were convicted and discharged; while John Lovett, being on bail and failing to appear, was fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Wil1 liam Mulligan was convicted and dis1 charged, and ordered to pay 17s 6d, or Sn default undergo forty-eight hours' detention. The information against Thomas Augustine Glsw, charging defendant) - with having failed to maintain his wife,, was dismissed. Mr. Dix appeared for complainant, and Mr. J. C. Peacock fordefendant.