CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16982, 19 April 1917, Page 9

CITY POLICE COURT

"Wednesday, April 18. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) Drunkenness.—Hugh Thomas Stodart was fined 60s, in default 4b" hours' imprisonment. AUugud Tiiuit.—lilowellyn Ernest iLall •was cuarged with stealing a cheque for £Y0 13s 6d, tno property of A. J. Hastie.— Mr Bcurr appeared for accused, -who was rcmauded until Monday, bail Lping allowed, acciucd jri jiis own recognisance oi iIICO anil two suiL-tics of £50 each. Breach of a i'rouibition Order.—Jonas Hardy was fined £12, with costs (7s), in deiaulc seven days' imprisonment, tor procuring liquor during tne currency oi a prohibition order. By-law Cases.—George Grant was fined ss, witti costs (7s), for allowing three horses to wander at largo in tho city.—Mr Scurr explained tuat tins was tho first occasion on which defendant had been before tho court, although he had' been in business lor many years. William Weir was fined 15s, witlx costs (7s), for driving a motor cycle without tho necessary certificate of competency. Herbert Davidson was fined as, with costs (7s), lor driving a motor oar along JE'rinces street without tho same beinir properly lighted. James Bell M'Gill for motoring along George street without a liglit, was fined 20s, with costs (7sl Horatio Bowie was fined ss, with costs' (7s) ior permitting a chimney in his premises to bo on fire. For driving a'motor car at a speed greater than four miles an hour whilo crossing tho intersection of tho Octagon and Georgo street, William Pollock was fined £2, with costs (7s) Wil liam Porter was fined 10s, with costs (7s) for riding a bicycle through tho oity without

Maintenance.—John Bruton, for whom Mr Payne appeared, was charged with failin- to provide his wife with adequate inaintenanco.-Mr B S. Irwin appeared for tho complainant.—The magistrate made an order against tho defendant for tho payment ol 20s a week, with counsel's fee (£2 2a).

A Mean Theft.—John Robert Leo was charged that, at Lovell's Flat, ho did steal £1 33, the property of Annie Anderson.—Accused pleaded guilty — Sub-inspector Mathieson said the accused was in tho district for three years as caretaker of the school, and the theft was committed whilo ho was in this position His conduct had been unsatisfactory while in tho_ district. There/were- three convictions against mm for theft. Ho tried to cast suspicion on someono else.—The magistrate characterised this as a mean theft, and sentenced accused to one month's imprisonment in Dunedin Gaol.

A Railway Ticket.—Arthur Chapman f/lVr^J 3 c ™"*2 cd w 'th, on tho 9th and 14th of March, attempting to *iso a railway ticket tho time for the proper use of which hiid expired—He pleaded guilty.—Tho Subinspector said that Mr Smith was residing at Evansdale, and travelled daily to town in the morning, returning homo in the evonJns. On tho 11th December he took out a railway pass. He said that he was under the impression, having taken out the ticket on that date, that it remained current until tho 11th of March. ' Tickets issued durin" the month current were dated from tho Ist of that month, so that the defendant's ticket would commence on tho Ist dav of December and expire on the 28th of February. Tho defendant should have known nt any rato on tho 11th of March, that tho time had expired.—Tho defendant said that his ticket being a quarterly ono ho naturally thought that it ran for three- months from the dato of issuo. When tho guard pointed it out to him ho paid his faro and took _oat n.n accommodation ticket.—His Worship: Have you paid your fare for tho 14 days?—Tho defendant said ho had not— The Sub-inspector said that the fares for the 14 rlays would be £2 9s.—The defendant said ho would undertake to pay that amount— The Magistrate said thero was nothing to show that the defendants attention was drawn to tho fact that tho ticket did not run for the three months from the 11th of December, and also then? was nothing to show that the guard drow his attention to tho ticket having expired It was the defendant's duty to" n?certa,in the actual dates. Tho trouble had arisen through carelessness on the part of both tho defendant iinrl tho guard. On tho first charge the defendant would bo fined £1 for his careles?npFs and £2 9s, tho amount of tho fares, with costs (7s). On the second charge he would bo ordered to pay costs