CHCH. COURTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1926, Page 3

CHCH. COURTS

SEIZING GIRL’S ANKLE. (Special to “Star.”) CHRISTCHURCH, January 21. David Alunh was indignantly emphatic in his denial when Sub-In-spector J. Al. Mathew asked him was it not a fact that he was known as a “peeping Tom,” but Alunn’s indignation did not impress the Alagistrate. Neither did his ingenious declaration that he never meant any harm, when through an aperture in the Winton Street Hall, hei thrust a hand and seized the ankle of a girl in. the hall. Alunn appeared at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before Air H. A. Young, S.M., and pleaded not guilty to a Charge of being an incorrigible rogue, in that he was found by night without lawful excuse in an enclosed

yard of Winton Street Hall, St. Albans. He had been convicted as a rogue and vagabond at Timaru on July 11, 1923. Mr A. A. McLachlan appeared for the accused. After hearing the evidence, which showed that Munn had no excuse for his actions, the Magistrate sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour. A CLAIM FAILS. Alic'hael Lawrence Dwyer, soft goods merchant, Greymouth (R. A. Cuthbert) sued James Beban, contractor, Lake Coleridge, (W. F.

Tracey) for £35 ss, which he claimed was the total of moneys loaned by him to defendant, and moneys paid by him for defendant. .After hearing evidence, Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., gave judgment for Beban, with costs. WOMAN J.P. For the first time in the history of Christchurch, a woman Justice of the Peace was on the Bench at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. She was

Mrs Lamb, wife of Commissioner- D. C. Lamb, director of Immigration for the Salvation Army, who is visiting Christchurch on an Empire tour. When Air H. A. Young, S.AT., took ■ his seat on the Bench, accompanied by Airs Lamb, before proceedings started, he said that Airs Lamb was a Justice of the Peace in England, and had several years’ experience as an officer of the King. She had rendered very valuable service. He had asked her to sit with him to-day, to see how matters were conducted in this part of the world. The visitor took great interest in the cases that came before the Court, and frequently she conversed with the Magistrate.