MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7268, 26 October 1910, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. (Before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M.) r __ i THEFT OP RACE-CARDS. ' A youth named Lewis Domb pleaded 1 guilty to stealing fifty race-cards, valued : at Jtl 10.=, from the premises of Thomas ' William Macaulay oil October 19th. 7 Sub-Inspector Norwood stated that the ■ accused was employed by Macaulcy selli lag race-cards. On the day in question i he called at Macauley's office, and finding ; 'him out took the cards and sold them. > The accused had been twice previously • convicted. ! ' Domb was fined 4Qs, and ordered to re- ‘ fund the> value of the . cards, or twentyi one days in gaol. ( ■ THEFT OP A CAP. George Browse, an old man, was fined 10=, with, 6s costs, or seven days’ imprisonment, on a charge of stealing a cap, valned at 3s 6d, firom the shop of ' Alfred "Watkins, in. Tory street, on Monday lost. , Theft of bicycle. Charles Wilson and Ada Florence Wilson, alias Boyce, pleaded guilty to' stealing a gent’s bicycle, valued at 112, from Robert Edward 'Seville on October 24th. Chief-Detective Broberg stated -that Saville left the bicycle outside his shop and the two accused removed: it and sold it to a second-hand dealer for ,12!. There was a long list of previous convictions against each of the accused. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed in each ease. INDECENCY. A young man named William Boyle Greenaway was fined ,25, or one month'a imprisonment, on a charge of committing a grossly indecent act in the Basin Reserve, DRUNKENNESS. On a charge of drunkenness Alexander l Scrimgeour was convie.ted and discharged, , but on a charge of obtaining liquor during the currency of a prohibition older he was fined 40s or" seven days’ imprisonment. (Before Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M.) CASE NONSUITED. Plaintiff was nonsuited without costs in the case in wliic.il Alexander Nicol, junior (Mr Brandon), sued ,T. Ma.rtinda.le (Mr P. Jackson) for £5 4« 6d. for goods alleged to have been sold and delivered. DEFAULT CASES. Judgment was given for plaintiffs by default in the following undefended cases:—William Lewis Jcnness v. John Davidson. -E2. costs 10.=: Briscoe and Co., Ltd., v. Frederick Cudby and Kenneth Cudby, .251 10s Td. costs X 4 7s 6d; George Lincoln Cole v. John Hunt, -111: Is lid, costs XI 10s 6d; G. Hardt and Co., Ltd., r. Robert D. Wilson, ,£4O 9s 7d, costs £2. 14s: Cadbury Bros., Ltd., v. Sarah J. Borlase, 268 is 6d, costs XI 3s 6d.