MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 7 June 1929, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summonß cases in the Magistrate s ■ Court to-day were dealt with by Mr/ E: Page,.S.M v . „/ -....■ ..: ; : "This is the first time this man- has been up,on charges involving dishonesty, although the police report' is not altogether favourable," said the Magistrate when fining Walter Clark, a labourer, aged 35, for whom Mr. V. Fletcher appeared, £5, in default- one month's imprisonment- for stealing 7s 6d in money the property ofVasahg Bhikha; Chief -Detective.Lopdell, said that on 22nd May a Hindu went into a bar ofi:an> hotel and pulled out of .his.i pocket a.' handful b£ money to pay for. a drink.. The aqeuse'd struck. the complainant's hand,, and the money went all over the floor. The complainant considered that he lost altogether 12s-/of:-13s.^; i-.V^':-:.?,:^.-?V-:'.V;-V-- y^ ■/ .. Fines of; £2 each;:; were imposed on Joseph;-.,. Patrick' Danghriay,'."Frederick Charles. Gregory, Parn.ell: A. MtCruire, and William.llowe for being found on licensed premises . after - hours. Gregory .was also' fined £2 for giving 'a false name arid address. ;.. .- '■'■■; .- :: ;" "'.-. :;;'.'. ;. ' ■ :-', A plea of guilty was entered by Mr. J. Scott,--on ■ behalf of 'Albert- Osmari, who was,, fined £5, on a charge that being a person. other/than the. licensee, he supplied -\ liquor afterhoursi ■: "It is'not my practice to suppress names in 'cases of shoplifting, and I'm J afraid,l.can't do it in this case," said the Magistrate; when refusing the suppression of the name of Winifred Batchelor, who pleaded guilty tothe theft'of a pound of sausages and- a tin of soupj of a total value of i2s Id, the property of Sidney C. Turner.^ Senior Sergeant Ward said that defendant wentinto complainant's shop, to make, a small purchase, and while the shopkeeper's; back was ' turned stole., the sausage's "and soup. The defendant was fined £2. James M'lntyre Hetherington, for failing to stop his van at the. Bunny street railway crossing, waa fined £1. Failure to renew their radio licenses cost Francis Maui Jacobson, Jack Nelson, Philip Schneideman, land 'Frederick William Webb £4 each, and John Whitworth Russell- 10s. Buying a rifle for another man resulted in Leonard Edward James Nelson being fined £1 for being unlawfully in possession of a firearm. Nelson was ordered to' pay the costs, 10s, on a-charge of delivering possession of a firearm without a permit. ■ - . ■ ■ - .'-■■■ '