COURT CASES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 92, 15 October 1914, Page 5

COURT CASES

*• Yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. W. G. Riddeli; S.M. "I vi ill give you another chance," said his Worship to Catherine O'Connor, a prohibited person with seven recent convictions for drunkenness, "but you are liable to be sent to Pakatoa for twelvfe months. You must be careful." "I will be careful," she said. A fin« of £2 was imposed, with the alternative of seven days in gaol. Florence Emeny received like treatment, and a first offending female inebriate was convicted and discharged. Mary Brown, with two previous convictions, was fined 20s, or in default three days, in gaol. Nine first offenders appeared and today each was fined ss, with a light alternative.*. Alfred John Hart and George William Jackson were both fined 20s, in default ordered to spend 48 hours in gaol. Angus Morrison was convicted for using obscene language, and fined £3, in default three weeks' hard labour. At the Mount Cook Police Court today, before Mr. J. M'Kerrow, J.P., two first-offenders were convicted and discharged, and John Turner was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. AT UPPER HUTT The monthly sitting of the Upper Hutt Magistrate's Court, held yesterday, was presided over by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. Considerable evidence was heard in the case of Walter Haughton, a stock drover, who was charged with using obscene language on the Kaitoke-road on 13th September. Defendant, who was represented by Mr. F. Ward, pleaded not guilty A fine of 10s, with costs (11s), was imposed, the alternative being fixed at twenty-four hours in gaol. " According to the regulations. I could fine you £10,'' remarked his Worship to Patrick Walsh, .vho appeared to answer a charge of boarding a railway train j in motion. After warning Walsh of the danger of bcai'ding moving trains, the Magistrate inflicted a fine of 10s, with costs amounting .to 8s 6d. CIVIL ACTIONS. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases : — W. 11. Edwards v. Thomas Schofield, £3, costs ss ; Benge and Pratt v. George Southee, £4 10s lid, costs 9s; same v. Matilda A. Southee, £10 12s Id. In an adjourned judgment summons case, Frank A. Cook v. E B. Condon, a claim for £5 3s 2d, defendant was ordered to pay the amount by 28th October, in default serve five days in gaol, the warrant to be suspended -on payment of 2s 6d per week.