THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 7

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. (Before his Honour Mr' Justice Adams.) PRISONER SENTENCED. Mary Hargreaves, a middle-aged wopiaa, vvll '? .had pleaded guilty to a breach of her probation terms, was ordered to the women's reformatory at Adaingion for a period of twelve months. Mr V, . p i Tracy, who appeared for the prisoner, said that ?he had been convicted in May, 1922, for theft of £SO, and had been admitted to probation. She was now brought before his. Honour for ■ breach of her probation by failing to report. Since the date of the original offence she had not been before the Court savo on another breach of failing to report. Eight, years ago she had been deserted by her husband, snd had be°n left- with infant children. She iiad r- a .-d back £l3 17s of the money stolen, in spite of the fact that she had been in hospital during the winter suffering from neuritis. Prisoner had written to tha Assistant Probation Officer, bt'.t the adsistr.r-it was not on duty at. the time, and the letter bad not been received. The position was that the prisoner had leading an irregtilar life lyther than an illegal one. His Honour said that the prisoner hud failed to report after leaving the hospital and was arrested. She was then in the Salvation Army hostel, and went to Southbrook, and wao again arrested. At tlie back of it all there not the desire to escape payment? Mr Tracy said that the real reason was the failure to appreciate the stringency of the terms of the probation. Mr A. W. Brown, for the Crown Prosecutor, said that it seemed that the prisoner had been lending n more or less immoral lite, and had not been consorting with the best cl&os of people. She had no fixed abode, and would not give an address. After consulting the Probation Officer, his Honour said that the proper course to adopt was to recognise the facts as they were and to deal with the prisoner on the indictment for the original offence. He thought it would be wrong to admit her again to probation, as she apparently had not sufficient strength of will to withstand temptation. The original offence of stealing from her employer was a' serious one. and she would be sentenced to twelv.e months in the reformatoiy Sfor women at Addington. The Court then adjourned until 10.15 a.m. to-morrow.

MAGISTERIAL. MONDAY. (Before Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Four first offenders were each convicted and fined 20s, the amount of their bail, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Another first offender was convicted and fined 15s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. A first offender, who had spent the night in gaol, was convicted and fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. David McDonald, an elderly man, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness tor the second time within six months, was convicted and fined £3, in default 10 days' imprisonment. 'AN ASSYRIAN REMANDED. " George Michael Shamy, 47 years of age, an Assyrian, was remanded to appear on December 3rd on a- charge of having stolen a suit-case and money of a total value oi £l2, the property of John Meyer, Christj church. Bail was allowed, self in £IOO and two sureties of £SO. FOREIGNER FINED. Albert Tammens, 31 years of age, a native of Holland, pleaded not guilty to having U3ed obscene language in Hereford street. The evidence of the police was to the effect that the accused, who was a sailor on a foreign ship,' had gone to the police station on Saturday, to bail out a Russian shipmate who had been arrested for drunkenness earlier in the day. However, his friend was not sober and the watchhouse keeper told him to leave because he was slightly intoxicated. The accused thereupon became abusive and when he was put onto the street, he used obscene language. Tammens, who spoke very broken English, said that he remembered nothing of tie offence. Accused was convicted and fined 40s, in default, 14 days' imprisonment. CIVIL BUSINESS. Judgment by default with costs, wan given in the following civil cases:—Tropical Products, Ltd. v. C. W. Fisher, £5; F. D. Kesteven v. R. French, £52; Booth, Macdonald and Co:, Ltd. v. W. Haslett, £5 lis 6d; Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd. v. F. Thomas, •£6 0s €d; Willian- Hav.'kes v. William J. Cook, £10; Amalgamated Engineering Union v. G. W. Coull, £1 10s 6d; John R. Procter, Ltd. v. W. J. Dunlop, £lO 103; Roy Twyneham v. Leslie Glanville, £5 8s 9d; Cranford Coal Co. v. O. "W. Fisher, £1 14s 3d; 'E. Prebblc and Co. v. J. Keenan, £1:8s 9d; R-. "VV. Olliver v. Mrs L. Keen, £2O Is; Distributing Agency, Ltd. v. G. Penny, £ls 2s lid; J. Oddy v. G. S. Smith, £5 Is 3d; E'. Prebble and Co. v. J.. McDermott, £4 12s 4d; H. Lancaster v. T. S. Jackson, £l ls 2d; W. J. Owens v. J. Home, £1 ,14s; W. H. Tisdall, Ltd. v. Johnston and Co., 5a 3d; Skelton, Frostick v. G. Owens and Co., £lB 8s; Ashby, Bergh and Co., Ltd. v. Burford and Lander, £9 19s 7d. JUDGMENT SUMMONS. J. Keen was ordered to pay E'. Reece, Ltd., £5 13s 3d forthwith, in default six days' imprisonment ; ■ W. Jones was ordered to pay ~VV. Dean £1 4s fid forthwith, in default two days' imprisonment; A. Smith was ordered to pay E. Jackson £24 9s forthwith on or before December 15th, in default 28 days' imprisonment'. BREACH OF AWARD. The Department of Labour proceeded against Ernest Walter Tayler, butcher, Colombo street, for a breach of the-Canter-bury Butchers' Award, in that he employed an excessive proportion of boys to journeymen. The sum of £lO was - claimed as a penalty. . The breach was admitted, and. judgment was given for the Department for £l.

A DOCTOR'S FEES. 'Reserved judgment was given in the case in which J. H. Simpson, medical practitioner, claimed from Arthur Douglas Ford, executor and trustee in the estate of Juha Pay ling,- late of Chrietchurch, deceased, the sum of £lB2 lis 6d, being balance of amount due for medical attendances and services, including medical treatment and medicine supplied by the plaintiff between • August 26th, 1923, and April 4th, 1924. Mr E W. White appeared for the plaintiff and Mr R. Twyneham forthe d Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £96 Is 6d. GRAZING DISPUTEf Richard Albert Pearse of C'iristehurch, farmer claimed from R. McMi-lan, of ST farmer, the sum of £29 -Us, for grasinsudlment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed with costs. ATTEMPTED suicide. a mfln attempted suicide and appearedinthe^ouH with heavy bandages on his head. Mr Jr. P J. Amodeo appeared for .mm. , b^.h^now recovered Ho realised the foolishness of "his He Government service; he baa no h Tccu a sed was b XcharX e tfc<> ordering tliat his name bo suppressed. i° ° GROCER SUED.. em given for the plaintiff for £5 Is 9d.