MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6176, 6 April 1907, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, (Before Dr A. McArthur, S.M.) V worn a u named A iolot Cameron, who was charged with having commuted a gross!v indecent offence in Little Taranaki street, was given tile benefit of a doubt that, arose during the hearing of the case, and was dischargJamos Lindsay was accused of having used language calculated to cause a T> roach of the peace towards a constable. It appeared that Lindsay had called the officer a “dirty cur.’ His "Worship fined Lindsay £L A man named Henry Taylor was charged with having attempted to steal a clock of the value of 20s from a houso in Taranaki street, into which he had coolly walked, although ho did not live there, and was unknown to the inmates. His explanation was that lie had simply picked up the clock with the object of examining it. Ho was sent to gaol for ono month. A middle-aged seaman named Clias. Woolley pleaded nob guilty to a charge of stealing a razor, pocketknife, silk handkerchief, (is (id in money, and certain discharges, valued at 20s, from n fellow-sailor named Thomas Classens. It was proved that accused had given Cussens’s razor to a man with whom ho was boarding. His account of the matter was that the razor, which was of no value to anyone, was given to him by a man whom he did not know, and could not describe. A sentience of one month’s imprisonment with hard labour was imposed. Thomas Long, who was convicted on a charge of having used obscene language in an hotel, was ordered to come up for sentence when called

upon. A man who had been under arrest was remanded for medical examination, in order that tho state of Ins mind might bo inquired into. Reginald Ollornshaw, who did not appear, was charged with having speared fish from a boat in the Halt river. Tie was fined £2, costs (7s), and solicitor’s too (£1 Is). Hr A. Cray appeared (o prosecute on behalf of t'iio Acclimatisation Society. Charles Daniel Hargreaves, a young man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having treated a mare belonging to Thomas Patrick Lyons, livery stablekeeper, of Turnbull street, with such cruelty as to cause tho animal's death. His Worship, having heard the evidence, said ho had no doubt whatever that the injuries had been indicted by accused, and not by accident, as Hargreaves had asserted. The only thing thoro was to say in his favour was that ha probably did not know ho was inflicting such injuries, and probably had no intention of doing so. It"was difficult to decide what to do in such a case: as the prisoner's character had been good, it would be inadvisable to send him to prison. Ho was convicted •'ml discharged.

Thomas Ghussop, charged with having embezzled the sum of £O, the property of the Municipal Council of Aehficld! New South Wales, was remanded until tho 13th inst. John William Chadwick, who was charged with having stolen the sum of £7O, tho property of George Arthur Wilson, of Auckland, was remanded to. aopcar u that city on the 12th inst. ‘ Two brothers, Leslie and Alexander Collie, admitted that being possessed of second-class tickets they had travelled in a. first-class railway carriage. They, however, denied that their intention was to evade payment of tho larger faro. Their reason for enter-first-class carriage was that all the second-class accommodation was occupied. A conviction was recorded, and in each case tho brothers were fined in the nominal sum of os, costs 9s, and witness’s expenses ss. A mun named George ATcDonaid, who, representing hinr-olf os an agent for a Lower Hut* tradesman, had obtained £1 10a from Ambrose Anker, was convicted, and ordered to come np for sentence when called upon. It appeared that this man is at present undergoing a torn 1 of imprisonment tor an offence having relation to the matter now brought before his Worship. Nino persons convicted of drunkenness were treated as first olfenders; Maurice Morris was fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, for a similar offence.