LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 6

LAW AND POLICE.

MAGISTRATE'S COURT. ■'„,' "Mi. O.C. Ketixe, S.M., held a sitting of the S-feigistrate's Court yesterday morning. 'After dealing with a number of judgment summons' cases th© magistrate made an order in the O&fie of W. J. Harper v. P. E. Serin, for £8 Is 3d. The magistrate ordered the .'debtor to pay the amount forthwith, or in default to serve- a month's imprisonment.. '■ Ho afterwards agreed to suspend tho order of commitment, so long as the debtor pays 5s per week off the debt. POLICE COURT NEWS. Mr. 11. S. Wardell, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of the Police Court. Drunkenness: Two first offenders, who pleaded guilty, were convicted and discharged, and another, who failed to appear, was fined IDs? and costs. Mary Friend and Margaret WJlkie, both of whom are prohibited persona, pleaded guilty to tho fourth offence within six months. They were sentenced to seven days' each. Breaking and Entering: A charge of breaking and entering the dwelling of Frederick Williams and stealing Is id, was preferred against three young men, named i Frederick S. Follas, Charles Tucker, and Ed- ' ward Byron.. Chief-Detective Marsadk said I tho offence was committed on October 8. On that date the accused forced an entrance in- | to Williams' place at Khyber Pass, where i Williams was living with a woman named I'Baker. The woman Baker requested them to : leave,' and they did so, after a good deal of pressure. Later on, however, the occupants of this house heard someone smash -one of the I windows at the back. On coming downstairs j they found the accused there, and when they . asked them what they wanted, they said they were going to stay for the night. They, were again ejected, and Is. 4d. was missed afterwards. After evidence had been taken, showing that the accused were frequent .visitors to the house. Mr. Wardell decided.that he I could not send them up for trail. Chief-Do-tective Marsack then asked that the men should bo charged with trespass and" disorderly behaviour instead. The detective's request was acceded to, and tile: accused were fined £3 each;,and:.eo.st,g. ~',*;' . . , : „, • '.Aii*opwiuin : Case; Tony F.Ah Tong,- 'charged with having 'Opium in, his possession 'oh October 21, was again brought forward.' ; The case had, been adjourned, so'that - some pills resembling opium pills in colour might bo analysed. Mr. ,1." A, pong. said he -had since done so. Ho found thai they contained a very- small proportion of opium. The magistrate decided that the case did not come within the meaning of tho .section, and the information was dismissed. Mr. Martin appeared for the accused.