MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 80, 3 April 1912, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mr. W. G. Riddell, .S.M., presided at to-day's sittings of the Magistrate's Court. Susannah Ackerman pleaded not guilty to charges of importuning and of being ai> idle and disorderly person. Defendant was remanded for sentence till to-morrow morning. Daniel M'Carrow was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, -and fined £3, in, default fourteen days' in gaol, for breach of a prohibition order.' A plea of guilty was entered by Philip | Sharkey to a charge of inebriety. He was fined 20s, and made the subject of a prohibition order. For assaulting John Robert Stringer, a young man named John Hatch was fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Charles Little wae charged with failing to account for sums of money to Albert Francis Tonks. There wore eighteen charges, and the money involved amounted to £12 7a 9d. Defendant pleaded' guilty to all charge*. He is a bread carter in the employ of Tonka) a baker, and part of his duties was to collect moneys due to his employer. Hitherto Little had borne a good character, and, as far as was known, he did not drink. He wa» remanded for sentence until to-morrow morning. An elderly man, James Purceil O'Brien, was charged with indecent assault. Aiter hearing the evidence his Worship said the charge should be air tered to one of attempted indecent assault. Accused pleaded not guilty, and. was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. John Lewis (on remand) wae charged that on 29th March he did steal a diamond ring, valued at £19 10s, the property of Thomas Crouch. Accused elected to be tried by the Magistrate, but the latter held that the charge was an indictable one on account of defendant's previous convictions and other circumstances. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Ueorge Allen, alias Richardson, was charged that on 21st January, 1911, at Wellington, he forged the name of H. Webb to a cheque for £5, drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Te Aroha, and uttered the same to Thomas Pag'i. Accused' pleaded not guilty. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail in self £50, and one surety of £50, or two of £25 each, was allowed. Tie qase (partly heard) of Margaret Williams v. George Williams, in which the informant charged her husband with assault, was concluded. Defendant was convicted and fined 20s, with costs £1 Is, in default seven days' imprisonment. Seven days were allowed *>'v which to pay the amount.