MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 146, 17 December 1913, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■ ■""■♦ ii Mr. W. G. RiddeU, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. A first offender for drunkenness was convicted and. fined ss, in default twentyfour hours' imprisonment, and another first offender was convicted and discharged. On his sixth conviction within six months John Douglas was fined 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment, and on a second conviction witftin a similar period, Thomas AldercHce was fined 10s or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Lilian Jukea, who was remanded from yesterday owing to her excitable condition, was found guilty of beinrf an idle and disorderly person and conßorting with women of ill-fame. On being sentenced to three months' imprisonment she hecame most agitated, and had to be forcibly removed from the dock. In a state of intoxication Henry Wilkins, yesterday visited the restaurant conducted by one Jonathan Jones, and on being requested, to ' leave, refused. He. was ejected with some measure of force, but' returned, and with hands and feet smashed three panes of glass, valued at £5 10s. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. When Wilkins. broke the windows he cut one of his hands so badly that it had to be stitched at tha police station, at the cost of a guinea. This he was also required to pay, in addition to the value of the shattered glass. Sydney James Henricks pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen £7 6s from one Annie Hocking. On the application of the ohief-detective accused was remartded for sentence until Friday morning. A young man named Thomas Ryan, who was arrested on warrant at the Auckland Exhibition, was placed in the dock in connection with a series ol charges aguintt him. The first was that on 15th January of this year lie did forge the name ofi W. H. Atack, manager of the Press Association, as an endorsement on a promissory note for £15 12b payable to the Empire Loan and Discount Co., Ltd., on order, and did utter the same to Win, M'Lean. A second charge against Ryan referred to a similar alleged forgery of the name L. Blundell to a promissory note for £8, which was signed Frank E. Weston. He was also chared with that, having received certain sums of money iwiounting to £10 4s on behalf of J. J. Niven *,ad Co., he aid fraudulently omit U, account for them. Accused, who it one time was m, clerk in the employ of the Press Association, was subsequently in the employ of J. J. Niven and Co. He \ras remanded until Saturday morning. PETONE CASES. The monthly sitting of the Petone Magistrate's Court was held this mormn» before, Mr. J. S. Evans, S.M. A charge of driving a motor-car across a level_ crossing when an engine' was approaching within half a mile was preferred against Thomas Andrew Parnell. After hearing the evidence by the drivel 1 of the engine the Magistrate inflicted a fine of £3, with costs (13s). He remarked that, in his opinion, the act of accused was -:i deliberate defiance of the law. _ 1 / ■ ] For riding a motor-cycle along Jacksonstreet without a light, John Hcrrispn ■was mulcted in the sum of 10s, with costs Henry Tancred appeared on two charges of using threatening behaviour in Jackson-street. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was defended by Mr A. M. Salek, ■yvho made a strong plea for leniency, and stated that Tancred was only efghteen years of age, and had never been in trouble previously. He was under the influence of drink_ at the time, and did not remember having used the behaviour complained of. The Magistrate took accused's previous good record into account, and fined hidn 10", with lls costs, on the first charge, and convicted and discharged him in tie feoCDrd case. No appearance was made by Harold Hardy, who was charged with recklessly driving a motor-car alonjc the Butt-road. In giving evidbdfe, Mr. W. J. Chrdnar, town clerk it Petone, stated that h« had nearly been run dow:i by Hardy, who was travelling at the I> ate of about fifty miles an hour. This was corroborated by Sergeant Foster. _ Accused had told him that he was driving the police to Lower Hutt. where % robbery lv»d taken place, but this had pioved a' fabrication, Hardy, was penalised to the extent of £3, with Court costs (9s). In the judgment . summons case J. Cotton and Son v, Cecil E. Y. Taylor, a claim for £6 15s sd. an order was made for the payment of £6 5s sd, 10s having been paid off the amount. Defendant wai ordered to liquidate the debt hy weekly iustalment^ of £1, in default Bffiv.a fonr<*flii d*y* f i»flpo»onmeat^