TO-DAY'S COURTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11757, 22 July 1916, Page 4

TO-DAY'S COURTS.

POLICECASF". (lioforo JJ r T. A. 1!. D.uu-.., S.M.) J)K UN Iv JvXN IvSS." A wuiu.iu was linod o;> ror drunkenness, iior lir.st, oil'enco. .'shooluin, a thirci oifcjidor, av, ;» iilU'd I>'o;S. THIvFT. iihirgarci. M Ac;:,(i, a woman oi' thn I}-loin ; with iour children, of •whom the y<>uj);vost_M-as .sr.id to ho niiio months old, pieaikd guiir.y to the tiicH c-i thioo !.tay cloths, livo jnllowsliips and U'o.vJcy.s, valued at j;l l s 'Jd, s-Tio property ot' lsoal.li and Co. CJiiio'i-Detective Ucrbort sr. id that tho woman was evidently a professional shop-lifter, and had boon caught redhanded at .Heath's last night. Under her overcoat she had a cloth bag, which would hold a '''c--t load " of goods, raid ot her things j uit { |-, een found at her house, hut she could give no satisfactory account of thorn. Tho accused's husband was aske-d whether he eonld arnrnge for tho care ol" the cb'ldi'cn if the wife were sentenced to imprisonment, and ho replied that his sister-in-law might look after them.

Tho accupod said that she had not; stolen until two months ago, when she got into tho company of two other women. She was remmided till Wodn^dny, bail holng lived at £lO. to enable } ier to account to tho detectives for -the rrood* nt Jums". judgment summons casfs. (Before Mr T. A.B. Bailey, S.M.) Thomas Andrews and Sous (Mr Ouuiiigham) asked for an order against John Papp3 (Mr Acland) on an amount of ;G'JO 1/1 s 2d, said to be costs given against Papps in a Supremo Court' action in which lie had sued Andrews for £'2so damages for alleged failure to teach him a. trade.

The debtor, examined, said that he was a plasterer, out of work, aged twenty-two. He- had worked three weeks at the "Press" office since May 18. Plasterers were busy, but he could not got work.

Mr Aoland interposed that Andrews, in the Supreme Court, had stated that he was utterly incompetent. The witness said that ho had £lO in the Post Office Savings Bank. Ho lived at homo, paying- £1 a week, but lie was in arrears. Ho had enlisted, but bad been rejected.

To Mr A eland: Andrews Jy "the Supreme Court ha'd stated that lie was incompetent, and these and other statements made it impossible lor him to get work. Mr Ac!and said that the action was one purely of spite, brought by a very rich man, who had lost an action in the Supreme Court, and wished to put the man in gaol because he could not pay costs. The case was one for costs against Andrews. No order was made against Papps, and no order was made for costs.

In the case of Margaret Routledgs (Mr Cuning-jytfrn) v. Bernard Inglcby, a debt of £lO 2s. an order was made for payment forthwith, in default ten days' imprisonment.

In W. A. Pearson and Co. v. Thornton Mills, debt £8 19s '6d, there was no appearance of the debtor, and an order was made for payment forthwith in default, nine days' imprisonment. In A. "Hollobon and Son v. J. C. T. Baker, debts of £ls 15s 8d and £l3 Is Gd, there was no appearance of the debtor, and orders were made for payrv.ont of the amounts owing, in default fifteen days' and thirteen days' imprisonment 'respectively. In C. Pannell and Co. v. James Alston, debt £5 13s, there was no appearance of the debtor, and an order was mado for payment forthwith, in default six days' imprisonment. In the cases of Pitcher Bros. v. James Chamberlain, debt £ll 12s 6d; Beaton and Ullrich v. J. YW Morris, debt £5 18s 6d; Harvey and Co. v. T. H. Piatt, debt £6 8s 3d; and T. Barson v. "W. Hill, debt £1 2s, the debtors were examined, but no order was mado. ■

Michael Carey, eh arp;e.d with tho murder of Frederick William Allen. Snapshot taken as tho accused was leaving tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, after having bcon committed for trial.