MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1174, 8 July 1911, Page 13

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.) THE COMPULSORY TRAINING. OBJECTOR NO. 2, THE PLEA OP "CONSCIENCE.'' The Defence Department took further proceedings in the Magistrate' 6 Court yesterday against several youths, who had failed to comply with Part VI of tho Defence Act, IBU9, by not registering for service. The' first case called was that against William Cornish, whoso father accompanied him to tho Court. Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared for tho defendant, and a plea of guilty was entered. Mr. O'Rogan then asked leave to say a few words in connection with tho case. "The defendant," said counsel, "knows that your Worship has to administer the law, but ho has asked.mo to say, and his father is in complete agreement with him, in saying that ho feels compelled, on conscientious grounds, to object to compulsory training, and ho intends to take the consequences." Tho Magistrate: Fined M and Court costs, default 21 days'. Two other cases of failing to register were called against Thomas M'Gregor and Thomas Scoringc. It was reported that both defendants had now complied with the law, and they were conv:cted and discharged.' A NEGLECTED HORSE. James Russell, a storekeeper, was charged with cruelly ill-treating .'a horse by failing to provide it with food. There was also a second charge of failing to provide the horse with food. Mr. Putnam, on behalf of the defendant, entered ft plea of guilty to both charges. Mr. V. E. Meredith, who appeared for tho .S.P.C.A., stated that tho horse mentioned in the charges had been turned out in a paddock where there was very little 'feed, and practically no shelter. It subsequently died there, after having reached a low condition Mr. Putnam explained that his client had appointed one of his employees to look after the horse, and to see that it had proper food and shelter. It was owing to this employee's neglect of duty that tho charges had arisen, for tho owner was not made aware of the real circumstances. The magistrate imposed a fine of ,£3 on the first charge, with court costs 135., in default"2l' days':<imprisoninent. For the second offence, defendant was fined 205., and ordered to pay Court costs 7s. and solicitor's fee £1 Is., in default seven days' imprisonment. ..

SENT BACK AFTER FIVE TEARS. Thomas Henry ,Apps, who absconded from the Bumharu Industrial School in September, 1006, and who had been at largo ever since, was arrested in the city on Thursday by Detective Cassells. He appeared before the magistrate yesterday morning, and, on the application of Chief Detective. Broberg, was ordered to be returned to the school. ALLEGED THEFT. j Charles Edwards was charged with steal-1 ing, on July 6, a tin of dripping, the property of D. P. Matthews. He pleaded j not guilty, and was romanded until Mon- j day nest, bail being allowed in the sum of £&. BREACH OF THE PEACE. For using threatening behaviour in Courtenay Place, whereby a breach of the peace had been occasioned, Daniel Morris and Charles Malin were fined 20s. each, in default seven days' imprisonment. BROKEN BY-LAWS. George M'Allister, who admitted being drunk while in charge of a horse and cab in Revans Street, on Juno 23, was fined 205., with court costs 75., in default seven days' imprisonment. For driving a cart over a footway in Ballauco Street without first obtaining a permit, William Wilson was fined 10s., and court costs 9s. A. Gooch did not appear to answer a charge of depositing rubbish in Crawford Street. Ho was fined 205., and ordered to pay court costs 9s. and witness's expenses 3s. WANDERING STOCK. A charge of allowing two cows to be at large in Brooklyn was preferred against Joseph Taylor, but after hearing evidence hin Worship dismissed tho iutormation. The same defendant, however, was fined 10s., with court costs Vs., and solicitor's fee £1 Is,, for allowing eight cows to bo at large. In both cases Mr. J. O'Shea (city solicitor) prosecuted and Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for the defendant. For allowing horses or cows to be at largo other defendants were fined as follow:—Geo. Smith, 20s. and court costs 75.; Thomas Hitchcox, Constantino Terraro, and Victor Russo, IDs. each, and court costs 75.; William Fogden, William Clisby, and George England, ss. each, and court costs 75.; Cecil Graham, for whom Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared, was convicted and ordered to pay court costs 7s. OTHER CASES. Roderick Matheson pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and to a further charge of procuring liquor during tho currency of a prohibition order. On the first charge accused was declared a habitual inebriate, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and for breach of tho order ho was convicted and discharged. Mary Joyce, on a charge of drunkenness, was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment and prohibited for a year. For a similar offenoc, Isidore Jacobus was lined 205., with the option of seven days' imprisonment. Other offenders against sobriety wero fined as follow:— John Joyce and John Marshall, 10s. each, with tho alternative of 4S hours' imprisonment, and a first offender 55., with tho alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment. Walter Smart was granted a license to carry on business as a pawnbroker in Wellington.