THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 21

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL. THURSDAY. (Before Mr li. D. Moslej, S.il.) drunkenness. , . Arch in Evans, aged -19 veara, a ttccon-i ollender, was fined 2 0s and costs, in default Hours imprisonment with hard labour, tor drunkenness.

THEFT AND FALSE lUU3TESCES. Ihirvvail King liay ward, aged 30 years, Ta a m cha, ;3 ed (1) tliat on November nth, -la-iO, with intent to defraud, he secured £3 iiom Jofiaie H. Tocher by means of a false Florence; (2) that on November 3Td, 1930, lie X2, tno property of Beatrice Kllen allt l (") with stealing i.'2, the property of hmma Amelia Kettle. Mr D. W. liusaell appeared for Ilayward, wboi pleaded guilty to each of the charges. Chief-Detective J. Carroll said that ac.cuned had Btayed at a Ghriatchurch and had cashed a cheque with the boarding-housa keeper for £3, that being c.rawn on a bank in Cambridge. It wa* iound that accused did not have an accountthere, had .never had had one. The other two charges wera in connexion with thefts from the rooms of other lodgers. There were five occasions upon which belongings and money were missed from rooms in the house, and v. hen accused was apprehended by the police he admitted the two charges of theft with which he was charged. ilayward was at present on probation. Mr Russell said that accused had been unfortunate in that he lost hi-j father when ho was two yeare eld and had not had the usual parental control. He had been in a good job in Wellington, but was dismissed under a retrenchment scheme. liayward's trouble to a large extent was duo to drink. In regard to his probation, it was perhaps a pity that Ilayward had been permitted to report by letter, as a more Personal contact with the Probation Ofiuer might have kept hirn straighter and been a better correction. On the first charge Mr Moslev e-entenced him to four month*' imprisonment with hard ja.oour and three months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of the other charges. The sentences are to be concurrent. THEFT OF CLOTHING. George Thomas Watts, aged 17 years, wa® charged with stealing goods valued at £5, the property of Iler.ry Herbert Cotton. Mr W. F. Tracy, who appeared for Watts, pleaded guilty to the theft of a coat and shirt of a value of £2 10s, and the charge was amended accordingly. Chief-Detective J. Carrol! paid that Cotton had left a parcel of clothing at a petrol station in Sydenham, intending that they be called for Accused lived next door to the petrol station, and did odd jobs for the proprietor. He took the clothing and wore it, and said that it had bmin given to him. Watts had been before the Court on previous occasions and wae at present r>n a probationary license from the Borstal Institution. Mr i racy said that the youth's mother had told liim that he could not help these offences. He had taken the clothing to his mother and told her that" thev had be*n abandoned in the station and had been given to him. There was no doubt that Some sort of control was necessary. The Probation Officer, Mr W. H Darby, Raid that Yvatts had not long been released on purole from Invercargill. His trouble wart that he had "imaginitis' wrong ideas had bcp TJ ptlt j nto hjg } lea^ Mr Modley said that he would send Watts back to the Borstal to try and establish Bome sense of responsibility in his head. He committed him to that institution for ft period of two years. ON LICENSED PREMirtS.

James Henshaw was fined 20s and costs for being on the licensed premises of tho Phoems Hotel after hours. YOUTHS IN TROUBLE. Alan Charles McKay and Jack Clark, two youths, were each fined 20b and costs, in default three days imprisonment with hard labour, for casting offensive matter in Hereford street. SIGNED WITHOUT AUTHORITY. Aloert Thomas Ladbrook, aged 23 years 27fh ,o°H ' wa ? char sed that on September nil Jnverc &rgin, he wjjfuliy dalivered for the purpose of transmission u lerTn m , Pl i rP ?u rt l ng t0 be Ki * ned another person, and that person cot having given him permission to do so. He pleaded guilty. Chief-IJet- ,;tive J. Carroll said that accused was at present serving six months' imprisonment at Paparua for failing to pay maintenance. He was separated from his wife, and in a statement to the police had said that he had sent the telegram to his wife, signing It in the name of her solicitors, as a means of being able to see her apart from her people. Tho telegram had asked her to come to the solicitor's office for money at 8 p.m. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. DOMESTIC SERVANT'S CLAIM. Florence Harrison, Popanui (Mr P. Hill) claimed from Adam Borgfeldt and the estate of Margaret Borgfeldt, his wife, both of 397 llatson's road, Papanui (Mr A. J. Rlalley), the sum of £lO, alleged to be tho balance due for wages 3s a domestic servant. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £B.

CIVII. CASKS. ■Before Mr 11. A. Yuunjr, S.M.j Judgment for plaintiff by default wan crivcn in the following undefended case r:—II. G. Sinclair v. L. Hole, £3 IDs; Commissioner of Taxes v. Stephen Michael Joseph Lynsk ey, £6 2s Gd: Mark Kershaw v. Charles Leonard Newton, £2; Frank A. Cook, Ltd., v. ft. D. Wollis, £22 18s 9d; Met; Manufacturing Company v. Roberts and Andrews, JM 0 :*r 4d; A. J. White, Ltd., v. It. a. Hellam, £3 4a; A. S. Paterson and Company, Ltd., v. B. Patrick, 12s 8d; Ashby, Bergh, and Compnnv, Ltd., v. S. Maffcy, £5 14s; Lamb and Hayward, Ltd., v. R. Ashworth, £ls; New Zealand Express Company, Ltd.. v. A. M. Graham, £5 15s; New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. K. Crispen. £7 2 8s Id; F. L. Scott v. C. G. [ Mackessack, £l4 14s; J. Leslie Will v. K. i L. Thornton, £3 3s; Gilmore Oil Companv I (N.Z.), Ltd., v. A. E. Palmer, x 7 8 s 4d; Maling and Co., Ltd., v. F. A. Biggs. £sl J Is 8d; B. and C. Hampton, trading as Ilamp- g ton Bros., v. J. A. Corrie, £4 lis lid; j Owens, Ltd.. P. Shirley, £5 17s; J. J. g Niven and Company, Ltd., v. Oiltrap Bros., j £2 10s od| Radley and Frampton v. F. N. f Craig, £6; P. P'eron and Son, Ltd., v. S. G. ; Hilgendorf, £24 8s 7d. j jr.'DG MENT SUMMONS lis'. A. Thackwell was ordered to pay Anarew Lees, Ltd., the sum of £6 8s 3d "forthwith, in default eight days' imprisonment. J. Gray was ordered to pay R. L. Riok«,rby the sum of £ls 18a 9d forthwith, in default 17 days* imprisonment. G. McLaughlin was ordered to pay NewZealand Express Company, Ltd., the sum of £2 Is forthwith, in default three days' imprisonment. J. Quinn was ordered to pay E. G. Keats tho sum of £1 lis forthwith, in default three days' imprisonment. A. Graham waa ordered to pay A. H. Fenn tho sum of £1 4s forthwith, in default three days' imprisonment. C. T. Burrows was ordered to pay A. E. Bri6towe the sum of £2 14s 6d forthwith, in default three days' imprisonment. TRAINING FEES CLAIMED. John McLean, a horse-trainer, of Riccnrton, claimed the sum of £56 16s from the Public Trustee, as administrator of the estate of Norman James Baden Powell Donald McDowell, formerly an oil agent, of Christchurch, the amount representing fees due to him as the trainer of Direct Todd, a horse leased by McDowell, for a period of 26 weeks from October 22nd, 1926, to April 22nd, 1927. The sum claimed included an amount of £4 16s, the value of eight sets of horseshoes supplied by plaintiff. Mr W. Brown appeared for defendants, and Mr W. Smithson for the plaintiff. Judgment was priven by Mr Young for plaintiff for £4O 35s lid.