MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4806, 8 November 1902, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7,

(Before Mr W. R. Haseldon, S.M.)

Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were convicted. John Cameron, for a second offence, was fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

Patrick Kearney appeared on remand to answer charges of hawing obtained £6 9s from George T. Stutter by means of false pretence, and also -with having issued a valueless cheque to Spencer George iladford for the sum of £o, at iff-tone. The charges wo.ro -withdrawn by leave of the prosecutors. Mr Wolford appeared for the defendant. A young woman, Julia Selina Schultz, denied hawing stolen a petticoat and a pinafore valued at 11s, the property of Eliza- Trudgeon, on the 37th October. Evidence for the prosecution was given to say that the articles were taken from the informant’s promises, and that the pinafore was eventually found iu possession of the defendant. When the informant charged the defendant with having taken the pinafore she offered to pay for it, and explained that she had purchased it from a hawker. The defendant stated she had never boon in the informant’s premises. She purchased the pinafore from a woman who waa hawking wearing apparel, and had repeatedly worn it about the neighbourhood. ills Worsliip dismissed the case. Mr Wilford appeared for the defendant. William Bland and Hugh Spiers, who were charged last week with being idle and disorderly persons, and who were remanded in order to have an opportunity of obtaining work, wore dismissed. Elizabeth McCarthy appeared on remand to answer charges of having kept a brothel, and of being an idle and a disorderly person, having no visible lawful means of support. His Worship dismissed the case, as the house had been closed. The second charge was withdrawn.

The charge against Maude Rose Kelly, fbr'■being an idle and a disorderly person, having no visible lawful means of support, was withdrawn, tho defendant having left Wellington. John Holland pleaded guilty to charges of having been drunk and of having stolen ' a pair of hoots valued at Ills 6d, the property of Michael Treacy, at Wellington, on the 6th iust. A fi.no of ss, or twenty-. four hours’ imprisonment, was imposed on tho first charge, and one months’ imprisonment on the second charge. Throe prohibited persons liamed Robert J. Malcolm, Samuel Campbell and Margaret Lenham entered ploaa of guilty to charges of having been on licensed promises. A fine of 20s, or in default seven days’ imprisonment, was imposed in each case. Nellie Neileon- was fined 40s, or in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, for having accompanied Margaret Lenham, a prohibited person, into the Panama Hotel on tho 28th October.

Throe charges, were brought against M. G. H&eles- of having been the occupier of a factory and employing throe women between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. Tho defendant pleaded guilty under extenuating circumstances, and explained that tho offences were committed whilst ho was away from Wellington. . A fine of os’.: with £1 14s casta, was imposed on each of the first two charges, and a fine of Is, with 13s costs, was imposed cm the third charge.. A young man named William James pleaded guilty to a charge of liiyying stolen a watch and chain valued at, £5, tho property of Catherine Butler, licensee of the National Hotel, on the 23rcl October, 1902, and was admitted to six months’ probation, and ordered to pay 30s expenses incurred. Mr Wilfowl appeared for the defendant. The charge of theft of the same watch against James Ritchie was withdrawn. Tho defendant explained that James gave him tho watch and asked liim to keep it for three or four weeks. When tho defendant offered him tho watch at the end of that time, ho said ho did not want it. The defendant then gave it to a third party, who pawned it, and kept the proceeds. Tho defendant never had a suspicion that James stole the watch..