MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 35

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tho man Kennedy Christie, who was rescuod from tho harbour by Mr 11. Alosoley on Tuesday, was charged at tho Magistrate’s Court on Friday afternoon with attempting to commit suicide by throwing himself into the harbour. The accused was cautioned and discharged. An intelligent-looking girl named Edith Norman was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on Friday, before Mr A. Greonficld, S M , with stealing a pair of shoos tho property of E. Pearce. Tho police reported that tho girl’s parents wero very respectable people. The accused was convicted and discharged. Michael Fogarty, alias Jimmy the Native, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of vagrancy, and who, tho police alleged, associated with thieves, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard A maintenance order was made against R. C. F. G Worth for 15s a week for tho support ot his wifo and child. Mr Gray appeared for Mrs Worth, and Mr Paterson for tho detonj nf A claim for All Cl lOd by Hubbard, Hall

and Co. against James Sweeney was blade before Mr A. Greenfield, S.M., on Saturday at the Magistrate’s Court. An order for change of venue to Christchurch was made, the costs of the order (21s) to be paid by the plaintiffs. Mr Edwards appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr Izard for the defendant. Two first offenders, on a charge oj' drunkenness, were fined os by Mr A. Greenfield, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. Charles Baker and Sarah Mitchell, charged with indeceney in a public place, were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Nellie Barns, on a charge. of attempting suicide, was discharged and given to tho care of tho Salvation Army. An application was mado before Mr A. Greenfield, S.M., on Monday afternoon, by Sir Robert Stout to admit to bail Mrs Loclior, committed for trial on the charge of attempt* ing to murder Mr George Norbury. Sir Robert Stout said that Mr Norbury was now out of danger. Mr Greenfield said lie did not think this was a case for bail, and refused the application. Air Alorison applied at the . Magistrate s Court on Monday, on behalf of the Colonial Carrying Company, for a rehearing of the case of Woods v. the Colonial Carrying Company, in which the plaintiff got damages and expenses some days ago for injuries received in a collision with one of defendant s carts. Mr Wiiford opposed the application, which was refused with ill Is costs.

At tho Magistrate’s Court on Monday six able-bodied men named John Whittam, James Johnston, Herbert Dunkerton, Archibald King, William Chappie and William Richards wore charged with being on board a vessel—a derelict on the Thorndon beach—by night without lawful excuse. One of tho accused explained that they had no money to pay for their lodgings. Inspector Pender said he did not consider there was any felonious intent. Air Greenfield, S.M., convicted and discharged tho accused. William G. Wilkis, for being by night without lawful excuse on the premises of the Government railway at Thorndon, was similarly dealt with. Four persons wero punished for drunkenness. Eliza Blaine, charged with soliciting, was sent to gaol for three months. John Stewart, for not keeping a light on an excavation in Wilson street, was fined ss, with 7s costs. E. Holdsv.ort.b and J. Chalmers wore charged with trespassing on tho Wellington-Alanawatu railway at Hadfield, by driving a horse and buggy theroon —a caso wliioli had been struck out some days agoa.s there was no appearance on behalf of the informants. A fine of 20s each, with 25s costs, was imposed. Mr Travers appeared for the informants. At the Auckland Police Court, Arthur Alines, Robert Lloyd, Robert Ramsay, Frank Williams, William Brown, Thomas Enright and James Williams pleaded guilty of having travelled by the Waihora from'Sydney to Auckland without paying the faro. They gave various excuses, the principal one being that they saw nothing but starvation before them if they remained in Sydney. One of tho accused, evidently with tho gift of originality, said ho came on board drunk, and the boat loft the wharf before he could get oil. Each of tho men was fined £2 ss, the amount of the fare, with tho option of Id days’ imprisonment. Walter Montague, storekeeper on the s.s. Mataura, has been fined -83 12s (Id and costs for having seven yards of serge in his possession uncustomed. Defendant pleaded guilty. G. M. Park was committed for trial at Auckland on tho charge of stealing £2O on February Ist at Taupo. Bail was allowed.

A PECULIAR CASE. A man named Robert Livingston was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on Monday with the theft of an oilskin overcoat from the shop of the Union Clothing Company. In consequence of some statements mado by tho accused the caso was remanded until Wednesday, so as to permit enquiries being made. Livingston, in his statement to tho police, alleges that ho had boon in a lunatic asylum in Alclbourno, and about eleven months ago ho was put on board one of Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co.’s boats in Melbourne by an asylum warder, who gavo him a ticket for Sydney. Whilst in Sydney he became insane and was two or throe times placed under restraint, Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., ho alleged, being bound in a bond of £SOO for his maintenance. Ho then states that ho got a free passage from tho Company to this Colony. While in Christ* church he developed symptoms of insanity again. Whilst tliero Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., ho says, wero required to givo a bond in £IOO for his maintenance. Ho left Christchurch about Easter, and came up to Wellington and thence to Mastarton, from which placo ho wroto to Inspector Pondor, asking him to seo Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co.’s representative, and ask for a passage for him to England. Air Murrell, tho New Zealand manager of Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., in answer to a New Zealand Times reporter, said ho

had mado enquiries into Livingston s statements. He found that Livingston was placed on board the vessel at Melbourne by a warder, without tho captain’s knowledge @f tho man’s character. After his arrival in Sydney, the Company were asked to furnish a bond of £SOO for his maintenance. The Company's agent wanted to get him to return to Melbourne, but Livingston, it is alleged, refused to comply with tho request. Mr Murrell thinks that the Company's representative then made a mistake in offering him a passage to this Colony if the facts were as Livingston stated. The Company’s representative was very likely induced to do this by tho representation of Livingston that lie had some friends in Christchurch, dhe Company gave a bond of £IOO, alter his arrival in Christchurch, for his maintenance. Mr Murrell said the Company would like to send the man back to Melbourne, but they were in a difficulty, inasmuch as they had no direct service there.