MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4825, 1 December 1902, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. (Before Dr A. .McArthur, S.M.) Three first offenders Were convicted of drunkenness. A previously convicted drunkard named Fanny Cowan was discharged on, the understanding that she consented to enter the Salvation Army Home for one mouth. Richard Dunu, for a second offence of drunkenness, was fined 10s, or in default fortyeight hours’ imprisonment. A yo>ung man named Ernest Ham was charged with having attempted to commit suicide at Island Bay on the 20th November. Sub-Inspector O’Donovan stated, from information received, he believed tho defendant was mentally weak. The defendant’s father deposed that his son had been suffering from acute pains in the head before ho tried to take his life by tying a stone round his neck and jumping into the sea Dr McArthur remanded tho defendant for a week, in order that ho may bo medically examined. A 'bus proprietor, Thomas Patrick Lyons, and his driver, Wm. Miles, were separately charged with having cruelly ill-treated a horse at Wellington on the 28th November. Mr Williams appeared for tho prosecution on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr Wiiford appeared for the defendant, and entered a plea of guilty. Mr Seed deposed that bo noticed one of the horses yoked to tho Island Bay ’bus very lame. Witness had the horse examined by a veterinary surgeon, and ho certified that the horse was unfit for work, and should bo destroyed. Mr Wiiford said as imon as Mr Lyons saw the animal, he instructed his driver to . take it out of .lie barnew. He kept about sixty horses and had not boon charged with a similar offence before. The Magistrate ordered the horse to be destroyed, and fined Lyons iO, with £1 15s costs, and Miles 10s. with 14s costs LOWER HUTT. Before Messrs John Wilkins and John Cmlby, J.P.’s, at the Lower Hutt Police Court on Saturday morning, James Dalton was sentenced to one month’s' imprisonment for indecency on the railway platform.