MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17251, 19 August 1916, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CHRISTCHURCH.

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., presided at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. On a charge of drunkenness, Michael O’Leary, a second offender, was fined 10s or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. The accused asked for tiino to go into tho country and get the money. The request was refused. Isacc Plunkott, a second offender, was lined 10s and costs on a. chargo of drunkenness. . ‘ Florence Edith Bell, against whom a. prohibition order was issued on the previous day, was charged with P 1 curing liquor subsequently. Miss Cardale, secretary of the Society for tho Prote.ct.ioTi of the Health of W omen and Children, asked the Magistrate to "ive the accused another chance. She Thought the offence would not occur again. Mr Bailey: Very •well, but if accused comes heloro mo again l J n d° r similar circumstances 1 shall tend her to l’ukatoa. Ernest John White, nineteen years of ago, was charged on eight counts with stealing four bicycles, small sums of money, a gold pendant and chain, other articles' of jewellery and a pair of boots, the property of persons ip and about Christchurch and Haiapoi. Sub-Inspector. Mulianey said accused was an escaped Burnham boy. When ho was arrested lie had made a clean breast of the thefts, had admitted offences the police did not know of, ana luxd assisted in tracing the missing articles. Witness thought it was useless to send accused back to Burnham, .as he would not stay there.' Witness suggested that accused should bo committed for reformative treatment. In reply to the Magistrate, accused stated that ho had come to New Zealand from Australia last December. His father and mother were dead. He had lived with his grandmother, but she was now dead. Ha had no friends. The Magistrate:. It is a great pity you havo started a career of crime. lou look a smart youth. Mr Bathgate, (leputv manager of tho Burnham School, said accused had oonducted himself well, and had been allowed considerable freedom. Ho was not a bad boy at all. Mr Bailey : It is unfortunate. “Why don’t you stay at Burnham?” he remarked to tho accused. Accused replied that ho did not like Burnham. Mr Bailey : Well, I think the best thing is to send you bock. You ave recommitted to Jiuinham. You roust stay there. Lewellyn. Pryce, a young man, appeared in answer to charges of obtaining £2 on July ?2 and Cl 10s on July 16 from William H. Hutchins by representing that ho was a brother of a well-known local chemist, and stating that ho had shares m Bonniugton’s. Accused pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Herbert stated that accused and Hutchins were members of the New Zealand Main Expeditionary Force, and had served on Gallipoli. It was owing to this and to statements made that accused had obtained -tne money from Hutchins. Accused was well known to tho police. He had been convicted at Wellington, Hawera and Marten, and had been sentenced on pip-lit occasions for forgery and uttering theft, breaking and entering and for false pretences. Accused seemed to be <mitc irreclaimable. Pie was an exBnmlmm boy. He had served one sentence of three years. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each chargo, the sentences to be cumulative. „ . Harry Wakefield, a Maori,, was charged with keeping an unregistered dog. In reply to the Magistrate, defendant stated that he lived at Woolston, but bad registered r the dog at the Maori Council at Kaiapoi. Mr Bailer: But tho dog must bo registered nt "Woolston. Defendant: All Maori dogs must bo registered at the Maori Council. Mr Bailey: I am not pro wired to discuss tho Maori Council. You must register at Woolston. Defendant: Tho fe« at Woolston is 10s. At tho Maori Council it is only ss. Tho Magistrate: You will be fined £l, but that will bo reduced to 10s if you register tho dog at Woolston within seven days. , ~, , Stanley Gordon Robinson, who did not appear, was fined £3 and costs for driving a motor-cycle with a passenger in thq side-ear over the intersection of Bealev Avenue and' Madras Street at a rate stated to be thirty miles an hour. Sub-Inspector Mulianey stated that it v.t.s tho worst, ease that had come under lit: notice. Robinson bad been travelline at fiftv miles per hour, and slowed to thirty only at the intersection of the streets. LYTTELTON. Mr L. A. Stringer, J.P., presided at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. , r Ernest A. Brown, on a charge or desertion from the Rotorua, was remanded for a week and ordered to be placed on board if tho vessel sailed m the meantime. ' ASHBURTON. Mr W. T. Lill, J.P., and Mr R. Clark. J.P., presided at the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. W. J. Patterson, charged with failing to attend drill at Hinds on July £O, was lined 10s and costs. A similar charge against E. V. Reid was adjournealor a month, defendant promising to attend regularly in future. Judgment was given for plaintiffs with costs in tho following civil cases: —Andrew Orr and Co., Ltd., v. T. Annett, claim £l3 10s; F. W. Hart v. George Ivoeley, claim £5 Is, and Ellen Paterson v. C. J. Moran, claim £4 los. CHEVIOT. Mr S. • Haughey, J.P., and Mr J. Rentoul, J.P., presided .at a sitting of tho Magistrate’s. Court at Clieviot on Wednesday. Daniel Brick, for allowing cattle to wander on roads, was fined £1 and costs and for herding cattle on roads was convicted and ordered to pay costs.