MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 11, 13 July 1921, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Charged in the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., with wilfully damaging, a pane of glass, value £2. the property of Elizabeth M. Ward, a young man named Albert Leary was described by Mr. A. B. Sievwright, who represented the complainant, accused's sister, as being a nuisance to his relativas for some time past. He had served a term of imprisonment for desertion from the N.Z.E.F., and was a .waster of the worst typo. He had sponged on his sister and brother-in-law to such an extent that the brother-in-law had loft the house. Accused, from the docc, said that apart from tho statement about military sorvice, the rest was a tissue of lies. After hearing tho evidence of Frederick^ C. Ward and Mrs. Ward, who said she did not want tho accused at her house, but charitably attributed the trouble to his drinking habits, his Worship ordered the accused to come up for sentence when called upon, and to pay the amount of tho damage. The accused consented to have a prohibition order made out against him, and wak warned to keep away from 'his sister's house. ■ ■ ( Robert W. JefFeries, for whom Mr. 0. A. Treadwell appeared, admitted taking a handbag containing money, He was intoxicated at the time, but when he opened tho bag and found the money was intended for a charitable institution, £20 of it, lie immediately made restoration of the bag. Then- he found money in his pocket, and being unable to account for it, returned that also. Meanwhile, the police had boon informed, and ho was arrested. His character, according to the police, was quite clear, and the Magistrate, taking into account the fact that accused had immediately restored the bag and was evidently under the influence of liquor at the time, dismissed the charge under the Probation Act. Accused said ho woiild agree to a prohibition order.