MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Eiddcll, S.JI.) THE RULES OF THE RACECOURSE. Four men, William Collins, Len Russell, J. Bowling, and James M'Laughlan, were charged- with having trespassed on the Trentham racecourse. The accused were nil well-dressed men. '. ■ Detective O'Connell gave evidence that he saw Collins on the racecourse on April 6, and warned him oft. Subsequently he saw Collins again on the course, on .two occasions. •■■-•.' Mr. .H. D. Bell (for ;the Wellington Eacing Club): Is he an undesirable?— Yes. .»His Worship: What is he? '■ Detective O'Connell: An unlicensed bookmaker. Collins was convicted and fined £2, with costs 75., solicitor's fee'2ls., the option being seven days' imprisonment. Dowling, -who pleaded guilty, was also convicted and fined similarly. Mr. M'Gralli appeared for M'Laughlan, and entered a plea of not guilty.- His client, he said, had paid for his admission as thousands of others had, and when he asked the detective to give reasons for his notice to quit the official, had refused to do so; There was, counsel contended, no proof that his client was not a desirable person to have on a racecourse. ■...--. His Worship agreed, and dismissed the case, with costs, 215.,-to the defendant. In the case of Eussell, who ■ was defended; by Mr. P. /W. Jackson, Mr. Bell agreed that in view of the objections upheld by his Worship in the care of M'Laughlan, he could not ask for a conviction. The case was therefore dismissed, with costs, 215., to the defendant. ALLEGED FALSE PEETENCE. Eric Oscar Faisey, alias Douglas Leighton, alias Gordon, was charged with haying, on January 11, 1910, at Cambridge,'obtained from Mary Ann Eoiit the sum of ,£lO by. means of a false pretence, to wit,, a valueless oheque. . Onthe application of the police, the accused was remanded till Friday next. ;.■:. OTHER'CASES. Reserved judgment in the case Doyle v. N.Z. Times Company, Ltd.; wherein the defendants were charged with having encroached upon Lambton Quay and with having, by causing an exhibition of pictures to be held in Lambton Quay, impeded the traffic, was given by his Worship. Tho first information was dismissed, no costs being allowed. On tho second charge,' that of impeding- the. traffic, the defendants were> convicted and fined 40s.', with costs totalling 28s. 'Charged with having left his vehicle unattended in Willis Street, James Littleboy was convicted and fined 55., with 7s. costs. James Phillips did not appear to answer to a charge of having left his vehicle unattended, and without lights, in Sussex Square after sunset. Ho was convicted.and fined 205., with 7s. costs, in default three- days' imprisonment, Convicted on a charge of having used indecent language, Thomas Martin was fined £3, with the option of seven days' imprisonment. '. ■"■..-••