COURT CASES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 86, 8 October 1920, Page 11

COURT CASES

A light criminal charge-sheet was iealt with by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., m the .Magistrate's Court yesterday. Sleanor Hadfield was fined 10s for drunknness' —a second, offence; John Mack, Vith two previous convictions, was fined 31; William Richards, a prohibited person, and with three previous convictions, t-as-fined £I—los for drunkenness and 0s for a breach of the order. Frederick I. Penny was charged with having >een 'drunk, and with the use of obscene language on iLambton-quay. Defendant, a trimmer op a ship in port, vas fined £3 for the language and 10s or drunkenness, in default seven days' imprisonment. William R. Norman, who was before the Court the previous day on a charge of having forged the name of another person- in applying for a _taxi-ca.r driver's license, was charged with having failed to comply with the terms of his probation on a jjjroviouS; offence. Jle,was then .placed under probation for two'yearsl 'His Wor. ship extend-ed the term'of probation for twelve months. ■ . '

Robert N. Wickham, for whom Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell appealed, was remanded to appear at Christchurch on Saturday on a charge of having • failed, to account for the sum oi: £11 15s 3d which it was alleged he had collected white purporting to be a <:ollector for the A.M.P. Society. Bail was fixed at £50. . ' At the Mount Cook Police Court yesterday, Mr. W. H. Coy, J.P., fined. two first offending inebriates, who failed to put in an appearance, 10s or 48 hours" detention. -" LOWER HtPTT SITTING. The monthly sitting of the Lower Hutli Magistrate's Court was held before Mr. F. K. Hunt S.M. .'Daniel Ellison and 0. Smyth, for-ex-ceeding the speed limit olf the borough) in motor-cars, were each fineid 20s, with 38s costs.

For allowing stock to wander on the public streets, H. C. Ell, R. Hobbs, and A. Peck were each fined 10s, with 7s costs; F. Meyrick, W. Orris, and H. Reeve, each Se, with 7s costs; and' F. Twomey 20s, with 7s costs. William Albert' Smith and J. Moss were charged by the police with a breach of the peace. The Bench held that the aggressor was J. Moss, who was fined. 20s, with 7s costs. The casa against Smith, was dismissed.

Arthur William Tapp pleaded not guilty to bedng drunk while in charge of a horse and vehicle, and was defended by Mr. Mellish. Accused was convicted, and ordered to pay the costs, 365.

Judgment by, default was given for plaintiff in the undefended civil case, B. W. Bird v.,W H. Hargreaves, for £5 2s 6d, and 10s costs. In a tenement case Clarence Beckmgham was ordered to give up possession of a duelling] to Mrs. Bessie Osborn within six weeks. „ Thomas Lockwood, in a judgment summons case, was orderedi to pay £32 15« 6d to Messrs. Collet and Go. within sisven days, or serve thirty-two days in gaol.