MAGISTERIAL

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16550, 14 May 1914, Page 11

MAGISTERIAL

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, May 1.3. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.)

Drunkenness.—Four first offenders were each convicted and'fined 5s and costs on charges of drunkenness. — Herman Wind was charged with having been drunk and assualted Richard Richardson with intent to cause actual bodily harm. Ho was remanded for eight days for medical treatment. By-law Cases.—Robert Taylor, for riding a bicycle on the footpath, was fined 10s and costs.—For a similar offence Thomas Armstrong was also fined 10s and costs.—Frank Wiffen, for driving a taxi without a light, was fined 5s and costs. —For driving taxicabs at excessive speeds William/Mullins, John Henley and William Sinclair were each fined 10s and costs.—John Pearcy was fined 5s and costs for allowing a horse to wander, and Albert Henry Burns, for allowing cows to wander, was fined a similar amount. — Thomas Henry King, charged with driving an express without a light, said he had not been fined though driving for forty years. He was fined 5s and costs.

Committed for Trial.—Elizabeth Black and William Lyndhurst were charged that on May 6, at Christchurch, they stole the sum of £2O 8s 5d from the person of William Thomas Worms. William Thomas Worms, of Ponsonby, Auckland, and now residing in Durham Street, said that he had been walking up Durham Street on the night of May 6, when tho female accused approached him and asked him to "shout" for her. This he did at tho Crown Hotel. He had paid for tho drinks from a purse, which contained £l7 10s in golch 10s in silver, a train ticket from Wellington to Auckland, and a boat ticket from Wellington to Lvttelton, the total valuebeing £2O 8s sd. After she had left him he missed his purse. The male accused asked in what way he t was. connected with the robbery. Olnef-Dctftctivo Bishop: "Oh, we connect you all right." Elizabeth Withers said she was employed at the Imperial Hotel. She remembered the two accused coming, into the hotel on May 7. They had had a drink, and then asked her if she could give them two five-pound notes for £lovin gold. She told them she could only give them a ten-pound note. She, had given the money to the man who had handed her ten sovereigns in exchange. Detective Regan gave evidence that on the morning of May 7. when making inquiries into the matter, ho had seen the two accused in Manchester Street, and, recognising tho woman, had followed them, being accompanied by Acting-Detective Torrance. He told the female accused that he suspected her of taking the money, and had taken her to tho police station for identification purposes. He had searched both the accused, and had found money on both. Tho male accused had said he worked for a man named Marsh at Marshlands, but witness found no trace of such a man. Tho woman had tried to escape and he charged her with the theft and the malo accused with vagrancy, afterwards increasing it to one of theft conjointly with tho female. Both refused to state whoro they were living. Accused pleaded not guilty, and were committed to the Supreme Court for trial. LYTTELTON. Wednesday, May 13. . (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) Drunkenness.—A first offender was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours' imorisonment. Civil Case.—ln F. W. Anderson v. Harold Rhind, claim £lO for money lent, there was no appearance of the defendant, and judgment was entered for plaintiff by default with costs.