MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES. A LENGTHY LIST YESTERDAY Yesterday’s sitting in tlie Magistrate’s Court was presided over by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., who disposed of a number of police and summons cases Three first-offending inebriates "were dealt with in the customary manner. Charles Frederick Baldereton was fined 40s, in default seven days’ imprisonment, on a charge of committing a grossly indecent act on Thursday. MAINTENANCE ARREARS. George Henry Bradley, who had allowed his payments in respect to maintenance of his two children to fall into arrears to the sum of ,£97 10s, pleaded, through his solicitor (Mr F. .HaighJ, that he had been out of work for six months. He was prepared to offer 30s per week. The magistrate remarked that he would sooner the complainant receive some money than send the man to prison, but if he would not pay there could be only one remedy. The man was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so lone* as he pays the sum of <£l 12s 6d weekly. MISCHIEVOUS GIRLS. Two young girl** named Katherine Asher and Violet Smith diffidently faced the magistrate on a charge that, at Oamanx, on April 6th, they stole a skirt and a crepe-de-ehine jumper, valued at .£3 10s, the property of Teena. McGooken. It wan stated that the accused wore two absconders from the Caversham Industrial School. After escaping, they had visited the Oamaru police station and helped themselves to a portmanteau! containing the goods enumerated. In view of the fact that the accused were at present serving a sentence of three years’ reformative treatment on a charge of absconding, the magistrate ordered them to be convicted and discharged. ALLEGED ROBBERY. A remand,for one week was granted in the case of John. O’Brien, alias Catter, who stands charged with, at Wellington, on June Ist, he did rob Daniel Walsh of the sum of <£2B. THEFT CASES. A Petone workshops employee named David William Taylor wa» charged with stealing fourteen pounds of sheet copper, valued at 24s 6d, the property of the Government Railways. It was stated that the accused had taken the goods and given them to his wife to dispose of. Whilst the latter had been selling the copper, she had been interrogated by Detective Holmes. Chief-Detective.Kemp pointed out the gravity of the situation in stealing Government property. The magistrate: les, and it reflects upon other innocent employees in the same establishment. .... You don’t know how much has been, taken. Under the circumstances, he was fined £5, in default one month’s imprisonment. A MISSING BICYCLE. Charged with stealing a bicycle* valued at £5, belonging to George Bean, a youth named Arthur Dudley Stevenson was remanded for one week. It was stated that the accused bad stolen the bicycle from a wharf labourer and attempted to dispose of it to a second-hand! dealer. SIX MONTHS FOR THEFT. "Ho bad only served a third of his reformative treatment for another charge when, being loaned out, he commenced to steal,” remarked .Chief-Detective Kemp of a young man named Howard Henry Williams, who was charged with stealing carpenters* tools, valued, at £4 Is, the property of. Guy M. Cowie. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. For a breach of his prohibition order, Duncan Kloetar was fined SOs and costs. I. Jacobus wee fined 20s and oosts for a similar offence. ASSAULT ALLEGED. Leslie Toms, who was alleged to have assaulted Connal McConnal, a cook, was fined 40s and costs. The incident arose through the action of the defendant in telling him to "clean up the cook shop/’ and on hein<? told that it was ''none of hi« business/' he was alleged to have set about the complainant in good, pugilistic style, inflicting damage to the man’s features. A CHINAMAN'S LAXITY. Kum Kim, whose appearance .might have been improved by a visit tp the hairdresser's, was mulcted in the sum of £lO for having failed to register as an alien. It was slated that the defendant had been in New Zealand before, and registered, but had failed to hand in hjs papers when he left for a trip to China. He returned to New Zealand in February, but in the meantime his certificate had been cancelled. The man had failed to register, and had gone round to alii the Chinese gardens to look for work. "It means that any other Chinaman could come into the country on his ticket,” concluded the magistrate. CASES REMANDED. On changes of selling milk with added water, selling adulterated milk, and with obstructing an officer while in the execution of his duties under section 4 of the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, a woman named Bessie Phillips was remanded for one week.