THE COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18492, 6 February 1930, Page 6

THE COURTS.

j MANAWATU SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERSTON N., February 5. At the Supreme Court, Leslie Myhill, of Marton, was admitted to probation for a year and also fined £lO for perjury. Accused pleaded guilty in the lower Court. The case was commenced in the Supreme Court of Ada Messenger, widow, Palmerston North, -who claims £2OOO from H. E. Bergensen, the sequel of a fatal accident at Palmerston North in July last, when the. plaintiff’s husband succumbed to injuries received after a collision between a motor cycle and defendant's ear. NOT GUILTY. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 5. In the Supreme Court, in the case in which John Glasgow Wilson was charged with negligently driving a motor car so as to cause bodily harm, the jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of not guilty. DUNEDIN SITTINGS. By Telegraph—Pres* Association. DUNEDIN, February 5. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Kennedy, Charles Free, was charged with at Oamaru attempting unlawfully to know a girl under 12 years of age. After hearing evidence, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of indecent assault and accused was remanded for sentence on Friday. Theobold Mathew Stephen Lawless was charged with unlawfully knowing a girl under the age of 16 years at Towahawk. In the course of evidence of a most revolting character, the girl concerned denied misconduct with accused and the jury, by his Honour’s direction, returned a verdict of not. guilty. AN OPIUM JOINT By Telegraph—Pres* Association. HAMILTON, February 5. The police raided Chinese premises in Ward Street. Hamilton, on Saturday night and confiscated a complete opium smoking outfit. Three Chinese were arrested, and today at the Magistrate’s Court, Yin Joe (67 years) was fined £2O for being in possession of opium and £ls for smoking opium. Yat Hang (40) and Ah Joe (18) were fined £2O each for being found on premises where opium was being unlawfully smoked. EXPENSIVE PRANK By Telegraph —Pres* Association. WELLINGTON, February 5. A plea ihqt they took the car for a prank, did not help two Tainui stewrards, Shellibeer and Harvey, to-day. The Magistrate merely told them it was an expensive joke sometimes to owners, and imposed fines of £5, with the alternative of 14 days, both to be placed aboard if the fines were not paid when the ship sailed. The ear, the property of a watersicler, was taken from th 3 wharves in view of a constable, who effected the arrest. BOOKMAKERS PENALISED. By Telegraph—Press* Association. HAMILTON, February 5. Arising out of a recent police raid on the hookmaking premises of Harry Abraham Samuels, tailor, Hamilton, who was fined £3OO recently, 15 charges of betting with a bookmaker we re pre> ferred in the. Magistrate’s Court this morning. Fines totalling £145 were imposed. Fourteen were fined £lO each and one £5. Qounsel described the eases ns the first, of the tine] in the Auckland province since the Act came into force ten years ago, probably the 'inly ones m the ppm in ion with the exception of these in Christchurch about two years ago. Jn view of the heavy penalties on bookmakers, counsel said most people were unaware that they were liable to heavy fines. The Magistrate (Mr Wilson) said eases were pot a novelty. The warning issued was already ten vears old, and ho fixed the penalty because of the enormous amount of rading in New Zealand. If bookmaking was permitted and tolerated it would be possible for every man to waste time and money betting at races every day of the week. “It is a great economic loss to the country which prosecutions of this nature are intended to stop,” he added.

STOWAWAYS FINED. a y Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 5. Ronald Colhns (21) and James Shaip (36) who were stowaways on the UJimaroa from Sydney, each fined £1 and ordered to pay the second class fare, £6 10s, in default seven days’ Imprisonment.