MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Samuel Beale, charged with being drunk while in charge of a taxi cab, did not appear, and was fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment. ' Louisa Nelson pleaded guilty to the theft of a gold scarf-pin, valued at £2 10s, tho property of John Barrett, but said she only took it as a joke. A remand till Friday was granted. Richard Harris, charged on four Courts with procuring liquor during tho currency of a prohibition order, pleaded guiitv to all charges and was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' on each of them. William Vivian Whitta was charged with publishing a. betting card. Mr Oassidy, for the dofonco, asked for an adjournment, in order that he might get particulars of recent decisions in similar cases. Chief-Detective Bishop assented to an adjournment for a week, wbioh was granted. Hector M'Lcan was charged with breaking and entering the house of R. J. King, St Albans, and stealing therefrom jewellery and money to the value of £lB 15s. Accused was remanded till tho following day. Jane Trask (Mr Cassidy) applied for an order involving separation and maintenance against her husband, James Henry Trask, on the ground that tho defeudant was an habitual inebriate and persistently ill-treated her. The defendant did not appear. An order was made for separation and guardianship of a child, and •naiiitenance at the rate of 15» a week.

LYTTELTON, Mr J. R. Webb, J.P'., presided yesterday at tho Lyttelton Magistrate's Court. , . ' Manuel Kirdy, on a charge that at Ashburton between August, 1914, and February, 1915, ho committed incest, was remanded till May 5.

ASHBURTON

At the Ashburton Magistrate's Court yesterday, "beforo Mr R. Galbraith, J.P., three youths, for whom Mr R. Kennedy appeared, were charged with breaking and entering tho Commercial Hotel sample rooms and stealing Belgian badges, toys and poc-ket-knives, to the value of 10s 3d. On the application of the police, tho accused were remanded till next Friday, when the charge, it'was'stated, would probably be reduced to one of common theft. Bail was allowed.