MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8734, 16 May 1914, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CASES YESTERDAY, Yesterday’s sitting of tho Magte*trate’s Court was presided over by Mjf D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. For insobriety, Mary Johnson was fined 20s, or three days’ imprison* ment. A man with a very long list of convictions, Bartholomew Miaioncy, was fined £2, fourteen days’ imprisonment, and also had a prohibition order taken out against him. Bohert Date was fined IDs, or forty-eight hours’ detention. He made an opplication to be committed to Beto Boa Island, and although a Salvation Army officer attended and expressed willing* ness to take the man, His Worship said that he was without power, as the accused could not bo very well doomed to be an habitual drunkard.

A youth, seventeen years of ago, pleaded not guilty to the theft of a bicycle valued at £B, tho property oJt Charles Boy Davis Andrew. Tho latter, a cadet in the Bailway Department, said that he missed his bicycle from the head office on May Ist, and had not seen it again till the previous, day, when ho observed the accused riding it in Waterloo quay. He informed a constable, who apprehended accused.' Sub-Inspector Sheehan said tho lad had previously been convicted, of a smaller offence. Has parent* could not control him, and as ho was too small to bo sent to gaol, it Waa suggested as an alternative that h<j. be committed to an industrial school, A conviction was entered, and the ladt was sent to gaol for seven days, with an." instruction tlxat ho he kept apart from the other prisoners. Tho MagHe tratq also said he would make a recommendation that the lad be sent tui a training school. Under the Act ho had to convict and sentence him, and all he could do was to make a recommendation in the proper quarter. ! Guy Taylor, charged with i being the, owner of a dog which attacked Charles Edward Trudgeon, was fined 10s, with court costs 11s.

Fanny W T hittaker, charged with sup<. plying firearms to Howard Snow, a boy under sixteen years, entered a plea of not guilty, saying that sho thought the lad was over that ago, Sho was convicted and discharged. BY-LAW CASES, Albert George Pearce, for a breach of the motor by-laws in respect to tho Featherston street stand, was fined Is, with court costs 7s. Robert Alexander, for allowing & horse to wander, was convicted and or* dered to pay court costs 13s. Claude Cornfbrth pleaded not . guilty to an indictment charging him with, driving his motor-car on to the Hun-, ter street stand when there were already on. the stand the maxirotEmarnmber of cars allowed by the by-law. The defence was that the first car had moved off, creating a vacancy, which tho defendant filled. A conviction was recorded, defendant being fined Is, with court costs 7s. DEFAULTING TERRITORIALS. Several territorials were charged with fai ing to render personal service. Charles Leonard Millier, whom the sergeant-major described as an irregular att-ender, was fined 10s, with court costs 7s, or forty-eight hours’ military detention; Michael McHugh suffered a like penalty. John Staples, who pleaded guilty to not registering, as required by section ol of the Act, was cautioned" and discharged. Charles Frederick George Tasker, charged with, not attending drill, was fined Kfe, with; court costs 7s. or military, detention, t