MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE & SUMMONS CASES VARIOUS INFORMATIONS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE. A LENGTHY LIST. Air F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt irith 'police and .summons cages at the Magistrate's -Court. Frederick G. Stevens, a second offender for drunkenness, was fined 10s and costs. For his third appearance for drunkenness, Robert Fit-ton was fined £l. or three days in gaol. FINE FOR ASSAULT. “He assaulted ,th© girl when she was passing outside the courthouse yesterday wSh her foster-mother,” said SubInspector McNamara of Frank Shorter, who admitted the offence. “He was under the influence of liquor and was seized and held by a constable, who was nearby, until another constable arrived.” The man was charged with assaulting Gwenitha L. Robinson and Alice Maud White. He was fined £1 and costa, £2. CADGING A LIVING. Placid and benign, Willie Wilson, n middleaged man, entered the dock. Four charges of obtaining small sums of money tram various people by false pretences were preferred against him. “He’s been in Wellington about a month, and -has lived by cadging,” said Chief -Detective Kemp. “As Your Worship can see, he is of good appearance and would inspire confidence. Before he came to Wellington he had hawked fruit in Auckland. He’s a married man; his wife is in Melbourne, and there is nothing that can -be said for him.” Wilson’s tale had been that he waa a tradesman at the Upper Hutt and had lost his wallet and train ticket. The charges preferred -were only a few out of the many which, might have been brought. The magistrate sentenced the man to three months’ hard labour. RETAILERS CHAROED. “This is their last chance,” sadd the magistrate when dealing with cases for using unstamped scales. Ah Leong and Co. were convicted and ordered to pay expenses. “I dunno,” was all that could'be got from Ohing Ling during the hearing of a similar charge against him. His weighing machine was alleged also to be faulty. Onoe the evidence was given he commenced a rapid-fire delivery of a sing-sonig speech which the court failed to follow.

“Tell him he’s fined £5,” cut in the bench through the barrage. William Ernest Cuffe, on a similar charge, insisted in a reedy treble that tire information had been laid from vindictiveness. “I’ve had them for eighteen months and never been inspected,” he said. “They’re honest scales, are they?” asked the bench. “Very well, he’s treat, ed in the same manner as the other man. Convicted and ordered to pay ex. ponses.” A NEW TRIAL. Arthur Gordon Kale appeared on a serious charge concerning a young girl. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault in the Supreme Court recently said Chief-Detective Kemp, and had come up before His Honour the Chief Justice on Thursday for sentence. Owing to a defect in the .plea, he had been discharged and was at once re-arrested. The whole case would have to be gone through again, and Mr Kemp askedf for a remand to July 3rd, by which time he would be in a fxwition to say when the case could proceed. The man would have to return to Carterton for the proceedings, this being where the offence had occurred. OTHER OASES. AY. N. Hop Hing and Co., for failing to close on a. half-holiday, was fined £1 and costs. For failing to keep a time and wages book, Triester and Co. were fined £2 and costs. On another charge, of employing women for more than 81 hours per day, a penalty of Is and costs Was inflicted. Peter Victor Rule appeared on a charge of indecent exposure, ana was remanded to July sth, at the request of Chief-Defective Kemp, as the offence \ra* an indictable one. Henry Kilgour, found inside the Terminus Hotel after hours, was fined 40s and costs. For committing a breach of his prohibition order, Joseph Albert Hay was fined 10s and costs.