MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 149, 21 December 1923, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases were dealt with by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the. Magistrate's Court to-day. A Norwegian named Henrik Hansen was fined 10s, in default. 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness, and £5, in default 21 days' imprisonment, for committing a, grossly indecent act. Appearing for sentence on a, charge of stowing away, on the steamer Waitomo, two young men, Frank Martin and George • Morgan; were each ordered to pay. the amount of the fare from Newcastle, £6 10s, in default 21 days' imprisonment. Another defendant, on a similar charge, Oliver Newton, stated to be a prohibited immigrant, was sentenced to 21. days' imprisonment, a condition being that he be placed on board the steamer Marama and sent back to Australia. ■.'

A seaman named Duncan M'Farlane, who had failed to maintain hig wife, being £114 15s in arrears, on an order, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

The theft of a pair of boots, the property of James William Martin, was admitted by Maurice Walsh and William Lindsay Clifford, alias Atkinson, who were sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The accused, who were arrested by Detectives Murch and Tumulty, were described as men of the vagrant class, who had been "sleeping out for some time.

Pleading not. guilty to a charge of failing to keep proper books, a baker named John Kussell Phyaick was committed to the Supreme Court for trial Bail was fixed at £100.

On' the information of James Corley. Alec Lookman was charged this morning, before Messrs. H. W. M. Kendall and W. N. Dempsey, Justices of the Peace, at Lower Hutt, with assault on Ebenezer Corley. It was further alleged that outside the Court this morning threats of further ■ violence were made by accused to informant, and in consequence, counsel (Mr. Barrett) asked that accused be bound over to keep the peace. Accused admitted the assault but denied the threat.. He was fined £1 arid £2 2s costs, and bound over to keep the peace on his own surety of £15 and another of a like aroount.