MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15333, 16 June 1910, Page 5

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, June 15. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) ■ Drunkenness.— Daniel Hegarty, a statutory second offender for drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, and one first offender was fined os ana costs, in default twenty-four hours’ mentVagrants. —Angus Black and Hugh Speirs were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on charges of being idle and disorderly persons, consorting with thieves and vagrants. The Trail or Drink. —Thornton Newsomb (Mr Malloy) pleaded guilty to having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. SubInspector M’Grath suggested that it would be in the best interests of the man if he were sent to Pakatoa Home under the amended Habitual Drunkards Act. There had been previous breaches. Mr Malloy said that Newsome was in receipt of £kso a year and was independent. He was anxious to go to a prohibition district in the North Island. Ho would place four of his five children at Lho Nazareth House and take the fifth and his wife with him. The wife of the defendant said that she did not wish her home broken up and her children taken from her. Her husband was a hopeless drunkard and, really could not. help getting drunk. The case was adjourned until Friday, so that inquiries could be made to see if there was room at Pakatoa. Prohiiiited Person and Friend.— Emma Weston was fined 20s and costs for having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. She said that it was given to her.—Mary Ann Landells, a friend and neighbour of Emma Weston, was charged with having supplied her with liquor. Emma Weston* said that Landells had given her tho drink. Constable Donovan said that Landells had said that she would give Woston liquor as long as she had a sixpence. It was her second offence and she was fined £5 and costs. Cyclists in Trouble. —William Jardino and Frederick Murray were each fined 7s and costs for having ridden bicycles on footpaths, and William Good and Andrew O’Connor were fined 10s and costs for having had no lights on their bicycles at nightWandering Horses, —Charles Brown was fined os for having allowed a horse to wander along Green's Road. —Charles Lawrence was similarly charged, but, as he had had to pay 20s poundage fees, lie was convicted and discharged. Motor-car Cases. —Dr 11. T. J. Thacker (Mr Johnston) was charged under Section 9 of the Motor Regulations Act, 1908, with having refusod, when asked by a police officer, to give the name of the driver of a. motor-car, which had committed a broach of the bv-laws. The evidence for the pelice ivas that motor-car C 713 had been driven along Oxford Terrace at fifteen miles an hour. The defendant had been in the car, but had not driven it. Sergeant Hodgson said that ho had called at the defendant’s consulting room, and the defendant had refusod to give the name of tho driver. There was no one in tho consulting' room at the time. The, defendant admitted that he owned car’ C 713, but he said that the car had not gone more than eight miles an hour. lie had told Sergeant Hodgson that he had no right to see him during his consulting hours, and he had refused to givo the uiame. Had the sergeant gone to tho front door of the private house he would have given him all the information. Tho driver of the car, ill 1 evidence, said that the speed had been under eight miles an hour. Tho Magistrate said that he would dismiss the case on the ground that it had not been proved that a breach of the by-laws had been committed, and therefore there had been no breach of tho section. If there had been an offence, however, tho defendant should have given the sergeant the information asked for.—John Aviss Pannett was charged with having driven a motor-car along Hereford Street at a speed dangerous to the public. Ho pleaded not guilty. He said that his speed was about five miles an hour. The constable said that tho speed was much higher. The Magistrate said that lie would give the defendant the benefit of the doubt, and dismissed the case.— John ’ Mills was charged with having driven a motor-car o-ver the Cashel-Colomho Streets crossing at other than a walking pace. He was convicted, but the Magistrate deferred the infliction of a penalty until Friday, to which day a charge of having driven at a dangerous speed was adjourned to allow the police to obtain additional evidence. The . Weight or Evidence.— Henry Hulston (Mr Cassidy) pleaded not guilty to a charge of having used obscene language in High Street early in the morning of May 22. The constable said that there were two friends with Hulston, and he had remonstrated with Hulston about the noise in his shop, at which j tho language had been used. The de- i fendant anil his two friends denied the j constable’s unsupported evidence, and j the Magistrate gave the defendant the ! benefit of the doubt. The case was dismissed. Obscene Language. —Edward Kerr (Mr Donnelly) admitted having used obscene language. Ho was fined 40a and costs in consideration of tho fact that lie was unable to work owing to. injuries received in an accident. Excluded. —P. Currie, J. M’Millan, J. Smith, J. Nieholls and J. Dowling j were each fined 10s and costs for having been unlawfully on the Riecarton racecourse, in that they had been unlicensed bookmakers, and J. Wright was fined 20s and costs. The Canterbury ; Jockey Club asked for only nominal i penalties, in a case against J. Hi?- 1 lop tho defendant said that he had not been a bookmaker, and had only acted as clerk on ono occasion, and since being warned bad stopped. S. Kraetaer, F." O’Connell and Detective Gibson stated that Ilislop had been n book- | maker’s dork, and followed race meet- | jugs. Ilislop said that he was now in J business. The information was dis- i missed. A similar charge against T. Georgeson was dismissed, the Magir- | irate stating that lie would deal with it under Section 92 of the Justices of the Peace Act as trivial.—J. Warren was charged with having been unlawfully on the course, in that he consorted with thieves and vagrants, lie was fined 40s and costs.