MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

; #i (Btifore Mr';W. G. Riddell, S.M.) • ' Thrce-iiuartors :of an hour sufficed to cleat [' -off the business at" the^-■■Magistrate's. Court yesterday morning. ; . . ....... ' ' OBSCENE LANGUAGE. - A-young man named Robert Hathorn a£. - ' pfcarocluii answer to a charge of used./" obscene language, in Manners Street on Satur-?' ■ day evening. -showed that accused s i. was one of a-crowd which gathered at the ,-' ; sceno of the tram accident on Saturday . night, and was helping to extricate the sub- t " jeefci'of;!the: •,accident from underneath the. J tramcar. A plain clothes constable,- who-was 1 sent up',.'tp'the scene of, the mishap, accidentally frod.-.upon accused's toes, >hcroupbii 'jheV i .-language complained- of was used. The con-' •i stable-warned accused, and went away abo;ufe" ; i >: thirty yar'l?.; but defendant followetl him irit-ht : a nuhiberi/of -people, and : repeated the lan- ' -guago;-- -> . ;His;,Worship impressed it oil accused that' such language must not bo used in a crowd,' and; imposed a conviction and fine of 405., i"' ; default seven days' imprisonment. ; " .I A' STOLEN VI'CE. _ A youthful-looking offender named Frede* rick:'Arniitage, described by the police as a ■perfect-; plague to his mother and relatives, appeared oa remand, from last week to answer .a. charge of .theft.,of ;a; vyce valued at 18s. 6d.-'-, • .A plea of " guilty "- was entered. ■ It-was,,stated that accused'was arrested* jyhe.n removing, the .vyce for. the, purpose't it ;sellihg.,;it.„ ;Acc,used was, previously, in I'yo6,i cQivyicted; jor assaulting'tlio. police. ! , -Mr. -Cookflwlio' appeared for the defoncoj? . oskell.,foi;:lenioncy .ill. order'that, defendant, -j .lyho l was,on'ly,twent}>one of age. mighti, ; go into the country. . .. • vHis ; ,Worship/ stated' that; on the under-? stqndiii'g .'that, defendant would'-leaVe for the; , (!p}int(-y',a,t;'dnce, and get. work soon as. : pps-'r sible,'. lie was prepared' to give hixn.a chance.-;:" Ho would .be convicted, and ordered to come;. ' ,)ip Jot; r sentoilCo called, upon. The vyce;; 'to, be .rctjifncd; { -, ; . Alleged breaking and entering;, j ;! -A youth named Frederick Bradley appeared' on- a -charge of- breaking antl entering-' tne-< ' "dwelling of,.William Hooks at Pungapunga on' . "Septeinoer'2. • On-the application, of Chief-' Detective M'Grathjj a remand was granted' 'until Meiiday-next..- ~.- . - ; " MISCELLANEOUS. , : An- information•; against Joshua H. ProsseP;: for. having " allowed sheep to wander at; ; ]L'orir,ua',, was dismissed with costs, ; £1 15.,., against informant. Mr.: Brandon appeared: for-the. prosecution, and Mr. Morison for the»1 defence. . ' ; -. '. *,f ;r < ,'John Angus was' convicted, and fined 20s;,t in .default seven imprisonment, for} .driinkennoss, and one first offending inebriate- : igras convicted/and fined 10s., in default forty-i 'eight■hours!''imprisonment-.,. ■ ' .' -.f