MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

'•V (Before Mr. W. '6. Riddel], S.M.) - ( ; i . AN ELDERLY WANDERER. /' FOUND EXHAUSTED IN STOKES ~: . f ; VALLEY. . A?. wom^ n named . Ellen Sommervile tottered into th& Court in answer to a, charge of being an idle and disorderly personfeithin tho meaning of the Police Olfences Aftt,-1908, in that she has insufficient lawful ino.rins of support, find quavered & pica of 1 guilty. », Station-Sergeant Darby stated that the old ladjv who was about 80 .years of age, was in . receipt of the old-age pension. She had been living" with a lady al Johnsonville, but sho hail/developed a mania for wandering;. uud the, people she was with did not know what to',do with her. -On Friday afternoon she was found wandering about Stokes Valley in anjoshausted condition, and sho was brought before the, Court now to see if something could ; not be done for her. £lis Worship remanded accused to Monday, instructing the police to make-inquiries in «th 6 meantime and see if a place could be found for her in the Ohii'o Home. A DELIBERATE ASSAULT. 'A young man named Walter Turner pleaded guijty to a charge of having on March 5 unlagl'y assaulted one Phillip Benjamin ; Station-Sergoant Darby explained that Mr. Watts, a livery stablekeeper, was driving a.Jjpung horse on Friday evening, and, when about to go up to a stable in Howe's Lane, adciised deliberately stood in front of tho young horse and endeavoured to frighten it. Ho ran up the lane alongside the horse and again got in front of it, in spite of tho driver's remonstrance. When Mr. Watts alighted from the gig, accuscd rushed '-im aila' assaulted him in a violent manner. Thorc were tlirco other young men with accuseJ, butt, so. far, tho police had not been able to trice, them. 'His Worship said thfit accused was not a first', offender by any means, _ having .'' been convicted for assault oil various occasions. Ho would be convicted and fined £5 and losts 145., in default 14 days' imprisonment. Accused was ■ allowed, 48 hours to get the money.