MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 166, 19 August 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) INSOBRIETY. Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 5/- and costs.". ; BEDROOM THEFTS. ' Archibald McKeHar, charged with having stolen £ls in money, a watch and a pocket-book valued in-all at £2O, pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Bishop stated that the prisoner had taken the money and other articles from a fellow boarder's room at the Trocaderb Private HoteL He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and ordered to -be detained for two years' reformative treatment. . John Martin, charged with stealing the sum of £3 14/6, also pleaded; guilty. The police evidence - was that -tie •prisoner occupied the -.same room as an old age pensioner in the Papaniii Hotel one night, and relieved him of his money during the night. It was his first offence, and the prisoner, who said he was drunk at the time of" the occurrence, said he- had plenty of Work to go to, and asked for leniency. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence wheii called on, to report .himself to the police for six months, and to refund the money stolen.

ASSAULT. Sydney Cooper, charged with assaulting J. O. H. Newbury, at Redclrffs, said he was guilty, but had actiedunder extreme provocation.! After hearing evidence, which showed that the affair was the outcome of the perpetration -Of a. practical joke, the Magistrate inflicted a fine of 40/-j with costs 28/-. -.-';■- '■-•'-;, Another charge- of ■-assault,- occurring in a billiards room at"Sufiiner this time, was laid against Henry Whiteley; who pleaded guilty to striking; Christiansen, and was fined 40/- and ordered to pay. costs amounting to -:35/-. ' l v AFFILIATION CASE. Michael Faley, ' apparently a volunteer for the Expeditionary Force, was charged with attempting to leave the Country without making" provision for his unborn illegitimate child, and was remanded to appear at Waimate next Friday. LYTTELTON. - (Before' H. W. Bishop, S.M.) BREACH OF PROHIBITION ORDER. For being drunk in London Street yesterday, and by so doing being guilty "of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, Matthew James Doskell was fined 10/- on each charge, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. CIVIL BUSINESS. In the case John Edward Vidulich v. Sydney Thurlow, claim for 13/- rent and possession of tenement,' judgment was given for plaintiff with 10/ : costs, defendant being given one week in which to quit. W. R. Newton secured judgment against Jas. Haydon for £2 12/6, with 11/- costs; and D. L. Collett against W. J. Heasley for 6/-, with 6/COStS.