MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

'(Before Mr. W. G. Riddell. S.M.) ALLEGED ASSAULT, YOUNG WOMAN INJURED. At the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. G. Bidden, S.M., yesterday, a rniddleaged man named John Driseoll was charged'with assaulting a young woman named Ethel Brown, so as to cause her actual" bodily harm. Tho accused is a wharf labourer, and the assaulted one is the daughter of the proprietor of the Central Coffee Palace, where the assault took place, and where accused resided. Bub-Inspector Sheehaii stated that it was alleged that Miss Brown had occasion to reprove Driseoll, and ho thereupon secured a hammer, and struck her on the head with it, inflicting a nasty wound. The accused then left the premises and went to the Porirun Mental Hospital, and asked to be taken in charge. Driseoll was arrested at the institution' yesterday. The accused hail previously bei(n an inmate of an asylum, and there Were tome doubts as to his mental condition.. His Worship, upon the application of the police, remanded the accused until April 7. It is understood that Miss Brown's injuries are not of a serious nature.

BASE INGRATITUDE AND ITS PENALTY. Julius Peterson was. charged with the theft of two stretchers, ouo wash-stand, one sot of weights and scales, one pair of blankets, and a coat and vest, valued in all at Ji3 Is. Gd., tlio properly of .George Havelock. The thefts were committed between November 15 and 19, 1912. The accused pleaded guilty. ■ Inspector Hendry said that the accused was found by tlio owner of the stolen property homeless, and good-naturedly lio gave him shelter in his house. In return for the kindness received, the accused had stolen the property mentioned. ■ The accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. BY-LAW CASES. i John Howard pleaded puilty to two charges of plying for a hire, a- vehicle, without first obtaining a license. He was fined 10s. on each charge, in default '18 hours. Norman Clout was'fined 20s. with Court costs 75., in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for working an electric motor without a certificate on March 10.: SEPARATION ORDER. Annie Holbrook was granted a separation order, from her hiHbuml, Holbrook, on tlio grounds of desertion.

4 MAINTENANCE. Wm. Geo. Eutwhistlo and Joseph Entwhistlo were ordered to pay 3s. 4(1. per week each towards tlio support of their respective children, who are in an industrial school.

PROHIBITION ORDERS. Walter John Hamilton, Robt. Matthews, mid Samuel Cameron were each fined .£3, in default 11 days' imprisonment', for breaches of prohibition orders. For a similar offence Peter Mulcahy was fined «£2 10s., in default U days' imprisonment. Mary Lee, similarly charged, was convicted and ordered to be sent to the Magdala Home, Christchurch, for a period. 9!' six mouths. A prohibition order was issued against Samuel Jackson Binning for ono year in. the Wellington and Hutt districts. INSOBRIETY. : Tor insobriety, John Shannon was fined 205., in default 3 days' imprisonment. Eight first offenders were convicted and discharged. Darcy Knight on a similar charge was convicted and ordered to pay 17s. 6d. medical expenses, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

CIVIL BUSINESS. (.Before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.) CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. ■At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, Thompson and Brown, laud agents, Wellington, and — Snow, land agent, Hamilton, sued Cecil Norman Maroon .for Xl7fl, being commission alleged to be .due' to plaintiffs for effecting an exchange of land 011 behalf of the defendant. Mr. Gray, K.C., appeared for the defendant, and Mr. 0. R. Beero appeared for the plaintiffs. It was stated in evidence that the defendant owned some property at' Hamilton and had commissioned Mr. Snow, laud agent, Hamilton, to effect an exchange for some property in Wellington. ' Mr. Snow, in conjunction with Messrs. Thompson and Brown, land agents, Wellington, effected an exchange, but the defendant refused to pay the commission, as he withdrew, from the arrangement. oh tliegrounc'ls that the Wellington property was so dear. After partly hearing the evidence, his Worship adjourned tho caso until this morning.