MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THE THORNDON MURDER CHARGE,

COKKILL FURTHER REMANDED,

(Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.)

i Robert Corkill appeared oil remand on a charge of having, on' March i, at Pipitca Stoet, Wellington, murdered' one Christopher Denis Smith.

Sub-Inspector Norwood asked for a fur-' .ther remand until Wednesday next. Mr. Wilford, . who appeared for. AcSuggested, that it might bo. convenient for- the, police to agree to a remand. to this day three , weeks.. . He would not bo - ready to go on next Wednesday, and the following Wednesday would bo in. tho Easter holidays. Sub-Inspector Norwood pointed out that the matter was m tho hands of the Crown solitictor. An arrangement might perhaps bo.come to betiveen Mr. Wilford and Mr. Myers, . His Worship remanded accused until March 23 OH the understanding that Mr. Wilford would consult with Mr. Myers as to tho date on which the evidence should be. taken,. PETTY THEFTS. An elderly man named Charles Wilson pleaded guilty (1) to stealing a pair of pliers valued at 255., the property of Arthur Illingworth Grabham; and (2) to tho theft of a liammor valued at 35., the property -of George Marshall. , On the application of Chief Detective Broberg, who stated that further charges Wore being investigated, accused was remanded, until March 21 for sentence.; INSOBRIETY. ; ; One first offender for drunkenness who failed to appear was convicted and'fined 10s., with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment. BEYOND CONTROL. Tho Industrial Schools Amendment Aot -of last year,. which empowers the . police'to-bring any uncontroflablo child before the Court and to commit tho child to a receiving home,- was enforced for the first time in; Wellington yesterday when a girl. 14} years of age was charged in the Juvenile Court with being a child not uijder proper control. It was stated that; the girl' hrtd run away .froni 'homo on'three occasions, and had got quite out of the control of her mother. . An order was mado to have the child committed to St. Joseph's Orphanage.