MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16802, 3 August 1922, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TO-DAY'S CASES. CHRISTCHURCH. | (Before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. ! A first offender was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ improsonment. REMANDED. j George Alexander Low, aged eighteen { years, was charged that on July 27 he i broke and entered the dwelling of John j Osborne Butler, and stole therefrom the sum of £6. ! Chief-Detective .Cameron said that ■ there were further charges pending against the accused, and he asked for j a remand until next Wednesday, j The remand was granted. A STOLEN BICYCLE, j Frank Burgess, alias Norman Winj wood (Mr W. J. Hunter), was charged ; that at Christchurch on April 18, he i stole a bicycle valued at £l2 10s, the property of Ernest Hugh Oldridge. Ernest Hugh Oldridge. mechanic, stated that on April 18. he left his cycle in the stand outside the Public Library, and when he came out it was gone. He identified the cycle last Friday at the Police Station. Jessie McKenzie, stated that she inserted an advertisement, in one of the papers for the purchase of a bicycle, and Burgess answered it. but before accepting delivery she rang up the Police to see if a cycle of the descripi tion was missing. Burgess told her that be had purchased the cycle, and he produced a receipt, but the number on the receipt was not identical with the one on the cycle offered to her. Burgess, giving evidence said that lie had been harvesting at Balfour in Southland, and when the job was finished he went up to Timaru and spent .*4 night there. He met a man named McKinnon from whom he purchased a bicycle for £l2 10s. He could not explain why he gave the name of Winwood instead of that of Burgess. The receipt he had for the sale of the cycle at Timaru was written out by McKin- | non. I The Magistrate (to accused): “ Will ; you w rite out your fuTT name on a slip j of paper, and let me see it?” This was done, and the specimen of ! hand writing was handed up to the ' After examination the Magistrate said that he did not believe a word of ! tlie acciiserl’s . explanation. He bad i -tolen the cycle, and the Timaru rei ceipt alleged to be written by the 1 mvthieal McKinnon, was written bv I himself. The accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and the cycle ! was returned to the owner. CIVIL BUSINESS. I X DEFEN DEI > C AS.ES. Judgment was given for the jdaintiff by default in the following cases: < hrisi hurc h ( ity (.’ouncil v. William | .James Young, £1 15s 4cl; same v. Cards. i line F. A. Ramsay. £6 8s sd; same v. j Charles Edgar Yeadon, £5 15s ; same v. David Guidler, £3 7s: same v. Elizabeth Smith. 15s 3d; same v. Fred A. Lewthwaite, £5 14s 10d ; same v. Fanny K. Johnson, £5 14s 3d; same v. John •1. Burnside, £2 14s 3d; same v. James M’Kay. £4 16s; same v. James S. Hepburn. £7 Is 8d; same v. Raymond S. Burns, £4 Is 7d; same a*. Michael Ryan. £1 14s 3d; same v. Fred Clark. £6 13s lOd: same v. Albert A. Berry and Lil\ Berry, £l2 Os 3d : same v. ; James I). Bourk. £2 12s 4d ; same v. i Richard W. Lawson, £5 2s 4d ; same v. : Mangus Patterson. 8s 9d; same v. jDaniel Byrne, £1 11s 7d; Woolston Tanneries. Ltd. v. Otto V. Bergh, £47 ' Us 2d; The Trade Auxiliary Co., Ltd. i v. John Scott. £7 2s 6d ; W. H. Simms and Sons. Ltd. v. W. Palmer, £2 os; The N.Z. Grinding and Gear Co., Ltd. v. G- E. Weaver. £7 Os l.ld: Cyclone Fence Co.. Ltd. v. E. Ancliff. £1 10s; Andrews. Baty and Co.. Ltd. v. Busch and Parker. £5. JTTDG MENT STM M ON'S. No order was made against John o’Callaghan, who failed to pay £3 Is to Ernest Nicbolls. William Bowden was ordered to pay £l3 11s to H. J. IT. Jolly, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment.