MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1728, 19 April 1913, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

__4 (Before Mr. W. G. Riddcll, S.M.) COMMON GAMING HOUSE. PRICE PINED .£lO. "TOOL OF THE BOOKMAKERS." Gilbert Henry. Price, a Mercer Street hairdresser, was 'accused by tho police in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, of having kept his shop as a common gaming house. Price pleaded guilty, and he was not represented by counsel. No formal evidence was required of the police, but Detective-Sergeant J. J. Cassells, of Mount Cook Station, who, with Senior-Sergeant Rutlcdge, niado the raid on tho shop on tho second day of the Palmerston North races, spoko as to Price's character. Price, said tho detective, was _ a respectable married man who carried on the business of hairdrcssing in Mercer Street Although the business was on a fairly large scale, he (the detective) was satisfied that Price had been tho tool of a firm of bookmakers who were doing business in tho city, and that Price's reward from the bookmakers was a commission of Is. in the £. Price had promised him that ho was going to "give the gamo best." Now that Price was in trouble this firm cf bookmakers "did not know him at all." Price was fined .£lO with costs 7s. Prank Campbell and Frederick Moss, both of whom pleaded not guilty, wero each fined ;El, with costs 75., on charges of their having been found on Price's premise-?. They said that they had gone to the shop to bo sKaved... Detective Cassells stated that when the > shop was raided there was no ono waiting for a shave, and that Campbell and Moss wero discussing a Palmerston North racecard with Nelson Williamson, an assistant in the shop. Nelson Williamson and Bertram Cowles Williamson, employees of Price, wero charged with having assisted to conduct a common gaming house. Both pleaded guilty. Williams was fined .£3, with costs 7s. Respecting Williamson, Detective Cassells stated that ho hud not' intended to prosecute him at all before going to t i shop, but on entering the promises he found Williamson discussing the racecord with Campbell and Moss. His Worship had fined Williamson £3, but on hearing tho statement of Detective Cassells reduced the penalty to £1. with costs 7s. THREE MONTHS* FOR THEFT. James Oliver Armstrong was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of his having stolen a coat and some tools, of the total value of £1, belonging to Nicholas Carwood. | CARELESS DRIVING. i Harry Kemp Simmons was fined 10s., with costs £1 165., on a charge of his having negligently driven an express on tho Kelburne Parade. It was alleged that the express ran into a motor-car which was standing by the side of the road. \ MOTOR-CYCLTST FINED; Thomas M'Nee was fined 10s., with costs 75., for having driven a motor-cycle round the corner of Lnmbton Quay and Willis Street at more than six miles per hour, /WANDERING STOCK. As tho persons responsible for cattle which wero found wandering, John Gressier was fined 10s., with costs 95.; David Mason, ss. and 95.; George. Robertson, 10s. and 95.; and August Wilkenniiig, ss. and 9s. OTHER CASES. For insobriety, Norman Campbell was fined .£2 and John Byrne ,£l. On charges that they had importuned peoplo in Tory Street. Annabclla Swanson was fined .£2, and Alice Brown was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. lor having failed to attend a military camp on Feßruary 14, 0. B. C. Ben was fined £1, with costs 7s. On a charge of his having used cer,tnin language on Queen's Wharf, Sydney Newman was fined £1, with costs £1 15s Patrick Cavhnagh was fined 10s., with costs 7s„ for having sold milk from unregistered premises. =====