POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11948, 6 March 1917, Page 6

POLICE COURT NEWS.

J • TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

j (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) J DIUTNKENNESS. | One female iuvso offender and two i male first offenders wore each fiued os ! or twenty-four hours' imprisonment. ! MAINTENANCE CASES. ; The secretarv of the Canterbury Uosj piti.l and Charitable Aid Board pro- ; eoeded. atmim,l YV. Wilson for mainten- | a ace in ropery mi two children, iu a re- | eeiviu.o; home. Mr Neave, who appeaijed for the Charitable Aid Board, | state! that a certain sum liad been left, j by defendant, and that there was a baij auco of £o I'Ah. Mr Neave asked the | Court to make an order for chat sum j to bo )>aid in the heard. j The Mfi;:;ix<raio made nn order ar:i eordimdv. ! Charlotte Elizabeth Wearer (Mr | Miils) proceeded ap :a inst George | Weaver (Mr 3! 'Connol')" for failure to | maintain her. ! The parties, who arc elderly people, i were married m.dv last year. 'Plaintiff '■ explained. i:i;:ic ....he had a small pro- | port-y in the Ferr\ Poad. During ; JanuajTy her husband wanted her to ; make over the projierty to him. He ! also wanted her to allow a daughter of j defendant, to rnakv.* a borne in her place, ! but she. had objected en good grounds, j and her had then saiel that if i his daughter would not he, oennitted to i .''lay iii the- hom:e he would not stay. ! ITer husband left during January, and ! she had bad oidy ,'JOs from him. i Oeonre Weaver, defendant, explained | that be had a house and bis. wife had, • one. The veni:--. and money from garden I prodnee wein Inwards Their keep. Witi ness was unable fo do much work. I What he he guv* t-.> hk wifo. j tie was Mvsv-five yars of ui-o\ and his j wife was sixty-nine. Ffo f>vd. his wife i lived omm'oHfihlv after their marriage j until Mrs Weaver's son to Irej qnent the house. Tins son received i money from his mother. This iod to ttni ideasanine."". j ' To Mr Mills: He left the home, on ! neeonnf nf ihe ,«on vet-eivinjr money j from Mr--, W<v,vor. Tits wife had not I been left destitute. j Albert M''s.S'n-\T. sen of plaintiff, do- ! nied that he had received any money ! from. Ids mother, lie. was in a position I to -rive her money. j Tim decided to dismiss j the ease. , Henry J.-.nies Pnrhrr.ok, who was .£ls l TV' in arrears en an order for mainten- ! anee o! a- eh;!d in a rcooivinp' home, | was ordered to pay the amount at Mm | rate of 10.* nor we<4<. in default one \ mouth"';' i rnnrisori merit. I TI!FANCY CASE. L'or tadin:.:' in send a, [my of eleven yea us oj ay;v to sehool, C. E. Hudson, who explained that the child was in delicate boai rii, was lined 10s. MAX WHO JUMPED OVERBOARD. ' _ Joseph Thonms Christie, alius Wili Ham hosier, who on. February .17 tried I to evade custody by jumping overboard J from, the .Maori, when being brought | to Christelmreh. to answer charges of I ihei't, was; brought, before Mr wT Barj rett, J.P., and Air G. H. Gilby, J.P., this afternoonChristie was recently .sentenced m Wellington to two years' imprisonment on other charges, and having had previous convictions against him", was declared an habitiuil criminal. The Christ church charges preferred j agarm-u accused were a.s follow:—That i on January :>, 1917, at Chrisfcchurch, j lie stole one Indian motor-cycle, value I £B2 10s, the property of Harold 1 Ungues; that on .November 1.. 1910, at Rrcacrwm, ho stole, one Douglas motor-cycle, value £BO, the propertv of j J. B. Clarkson and Co., Cliristehurch ; | that on November 4, 1910, at Christchurch, he. stole one man's, bicycle. ■ value ill 10s, the property of one Ueofrrey ;\ornianton, Fan-burst: that on Novembcn- 3, 1910, in Clmsteiuirch lie stole one man's bicycle, vidue £5 the j property n\ K m j William Rogerscm. ! On the iirsr two ohargos r.<;cnseu, -nTo j p/eaded guilty, was committed to the | Supreme ('our;, for sentence, j_ ( .At tnis stage Mr T. A. B. Bailey. mSM.. orvupied the Bondi. and hoard itie other charges. Accrued, who pje-.ded euiltv, elected to te dealt with summarily, 'and was s,e« teiice-1 to six months' imprisonment on oacii ooirnt. TYTTELTON. I (BefoiY. Mr L. A. Stringer, J.P.. and j M.v O. Ferrier, ,».i J .) \ A first offender for drurikenneKsv;a.s | convicted and discharged. Three boys, for having firearms, were j admonished and discharged, and Wi!j Ham (layiey. for having -supplied the | firearms, was similarly with. I