MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11047, 2 November 1921, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

YESTERDAY’S SITTING POLICE PROSECUTIONS. “Since his discharge from gaol he has been living on what he could get," said Senior Detective Lander when an old ; heavily whiskered old man named John Colin McKuy came before Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of being deemed to be an incorrigible rogue, having insufficient in (sins of support. “He has just drifted down. Your Worship. No friends, no money, and he has had to do the host he could for himself." His Worship thought the best thing he could do for the accused was to send i him to gaol for six months. STOLE A COAT. William Lindsay Atkinson, alias J. Heme, was charged with stealing an overcoat valued at £6 10s, belonging, to Daniel McGrath. It was stated -that the coat had been taken from the Carlton Hotel and subsequently recovered in a second-hand dealer’s shop, where, it 'had been sold for 6s by the accused under an assumed name. When Atkinson returned from the country, where he bad gone after selling the coat, he was arrested and admitted the offence. For the accused Mr J. F. B. Stevenson said that the accused had great difficulty in obtaining work. He had only received the sum of 6s for the coat. He hod seen three years' service with the Expeditionary Force. Mr Hunt: Thousands of men did service at the front, but never came lack to make thieves of themselves. . . . Yon are sentenced to fourteen, day’s imprisonment." ' A YOUTH AND A BADGE. On a charge of stealing a returned soldiers’ badge, valued at 10s fid, the property of Oharlee James Fisher, at Wellington between September 15th and October 10th, a man named John Henry Graham (J. F. B. Stevenson), oame before His Worship. Complainant said he had befriended the accused, but as the latter did not shew, any desire to get work he told him to go. After-his departure the badge was missing. The accused said that the complainant had given him 1 the badge, and that he might use it to procure work. Mr T. P. Mills, probation officer, said he thought that they were “inclined to rub it‘into him a bit." The accused . had always reported to him regularly and was down in luck. Accused was oouvicted and ordered to come,up for sentence when called upon. "ASHHEP IN A CAB." A young man named Thomas Edward Williams (J. F. B. Stevenson) was charged- with being deemed to be a rogue and vagabond, having been found at 1.45 a.m. in -the stable of Alexander Thomas McWiUiam, in Abel Smith street. It was stated that the accused had been found asleep in a cab, and when questioned said he “thought he must have come to see old 'Mac,'" the owner. As drink was the cause of the trouble His Worship dismissed the case on condition that the accused took a prohibition order out against himself. A "START” ON THE TERRACE. “I was to have started work this morning," said Michael O’Brien, when charged with being deemed an incorrigible rogue, being found a’t 12.46 aim. xa a stable in Frederick street. "You are going to start on The Terrace." said Mr Hunt decisively in sentencing him to six months’ imprisonment. It had been stated the accused was becoming a nuisance and had no fixed place of abode. Four first offenders for insobriety were treated in the customary manner, and John McDaid, a previous offender, was fined IQs. CIVIL CASES. Sitting in crivil jurisdiction, Mr W. 0. Riddell, 6.M., gave judgment for plaintiff, by default, in each of the followinf? caws^Newtown Bowling Club v. C. S. Pike, JK 7« costs £1 13s 6d; V. B. Portman and Co. v. L. N. Carroll, 19s fid, costs 581 2s fid; Harrington (N.Z.), Ltd., v. <l. Dixon. £1 to sa, costs 11s; Austral’s, Ltd. r v. P. Harwood, £3, costs Ail 4s 6d; British and Continental Film Co. v. Jatek Saunders, £l3 18s 7d, costs £4 Is 6q; Dominion Motors. Ltd., v. d. Moore. XII 11s 7d. costs £2 19s ; Dr H. C. Faulke v. E. R. Head, £2 12b fid. costs XI 7s fid r W. E. Hood v. Mias Ruth Avison, £5 10s, opsts XI 11s fid; Laery and Co., Ltd., v. Miss Ivy Cooper, XI7 18s Bd, coats X 3 2s fid; J. Tbawley and Son v. W. F. Evans, X 4 J9s 9d. costs XI 4s fid; Dr G. M. Whish v. Alfred Chapman, £4 Bs, costs XI 8s fidf Law Book Co. of N.Z., Ltd., v. J. Ft* Montague, X6l 18s 4d, costs X 4 Us fid; George Oswell Smith v. J allies W. Fink,- £l3 7a. costs X2 14s. BY-LAW CASES. Mr F. K Hunt. S.M., dealt with the following bylaw cases Goring C. Johnston was fined XI and costs for driving a motor-car on the wrong side of Molesworth street; Arthur Seed - was fined 5s and 7s costs for leaving a motor-car unattended ; for having no headi-light, MBrown was oonvicted and ordered to pay costs; E. Hunter was fined 40s and costs for driving on the wrong side of Tarac naki He. was convicted and discharged on charges of negligently driving a horse and cart, and driving -at other than a walking pace over an intersection. A fine of 5s and costs was imposed upon William Lee for leaving a lorry unattended. E. W. Douglas was fined 10s and costs for riding a motorcycle at an excessive speed over an intersection. H. W. G. Parks was fined 10s and costs for having no number on a motor-cyole, and was convicted and ordered to nay costs on a charge of failing to notify the change of ownership. For failing to notify the change of ownership of a motor-cycle, H. B. Perry was fined 10» and costs. For having matter of an offensive nature in his back yard Unka Morar was fined X 4 and costs. For allowing fly larvae to accumulate, Thomas H. Hatchard was fined XI and costs. For a similar offence, Robert Marris was dismissed. V. Bright was fined 10s and oasts for obtructing traffic with a motor lorry. For failing to keep as near as practicable to the footpath, F. Symonds was fined Xl and costs. Andrew M. Clintock was fined 10s and costs for allowing stock to wonder.