MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9092, 10 July 1915, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. Yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr D. G. A. Cooper, (S.M. Insobriety cost Thomas Brocklebank and John Pryse each £l, or three days’ imprisonment. As the police were not prepared to go on, Thomas Higgins and Thomas Herbert Woodcock, charged with stealing £3, the property of the Automatic Bakeries Company, were remanded until Tuesday next. “We understood that Bertie had sustained a fractured leg, but subsequent inquiries have disclosed that no bones were broken. We ask in that case that the charge bo reduced to one of common assault-.” So said Inspector Hendrey of a case in which John Evensen was charged with assaulting Daniel Bertie so as to cause him actual bodily harm. The charge was reduced accordingly. ’ Accused was ordered to pay £4 Is 6d (expenses incurred) or go to gaol for a mouth. An employee of the City Corporation, Henry Edward Green, ■ admitted a charge of stealing a quantity of brass valued at £3 13s 7d, the property of the City Council. He was lined £2, and ordered to refund the value of the brass taken, in default one month’s imprisonment.

Breaches of various by-laws cost the following small monetary penalties : Frank Bacon, Alwyn Beck, George Beynom, H. Fairclough, William John Haines, Michael Heavoy, Ronald Seaforth Jones, Apostle Lambert, Frederick Ludwig, William Needham, Herbert Henry Price, Alfred Wilton, Charles Bayliss, J. Bruce, H. W. Hardie, William Hedges (three informations) L. McWilliams, William Taylor. Harold Walker, Arthur Wiffen, Charles 0- Carter, and Wirihana Rangihaeta.