MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9758, 6 September 1917, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S POLICE CASKS. Yesterday’s sitting of tho Magistrate s Court was presided over by Mr S. 3S, McCarthy. S.M. Two first offenders were each dealt with in tho usual manner for insobriety. Thomas, Moran, a previous offender, was fined JS, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, and William Patterson A 3, in default to serve seven days in gaol. Leyshon W.illiaAs, a thick-set man, pleaded not guilty to assaulting tne fourteen-year-old daughter (Minnie Hayvice) of a second-hand, dealer, who has business, premises in Vivian street, and with' using obscene language. Evidence was given that accused went into Hayvioe’s premises about 8 o’clock on the evening of September 4th. knocked things down in the shop, and went through into the private portion of the premises. He chased a little girl, and assaulted her elder sister by striking heron tho face. • Accused said ho did not remember the occurrence. His Worship, in addressing tho defendant. said that drink was evidently his trouble. He was a man of dangerous character, and when i nliquor, even little children were not sacred from his hands. Accused would be convicted and sentenced to sis months’ imprisonment for assault, and to three months for using obscene language, tho sentences to bo accumulative. v Thomas Smith, charged with being an idle and disorderly person, in that no was found begging alms in Taranaki street, was sent to prison for three months. . - Joseph Collins, a youth 18 years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of trousers and a singlet, valued at 14s, the property of James Gray. Accused sold the articles to a second-hand dealer for 2s. Ho was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and to refund 12s to the dealer.