MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1807, 21 July 1913, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

PECULIAR BEHAVIOUR,

UNPROVOKED ASSAULTS IN THE STREET.

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided over Saturday's sitting of the Magistrates A man named William Carson entered a plea of guilty to two charges af assault —one on a policeman and one oil a civilian. Inspector Ilcndrey that tho accused was ssen, when passing along tae street, to go up to and assault a wun without the slightest provocation. Proceeding on his way he then assaulted another man. A constable then intervened, and asked the accused what he was assaulting people for. Tho man replied that he would assault the constable, and suited the action to the word there and then. His Worship told the that he had been acting in a very peculiar manner and that he would have to be more careful in the future. He had. been in gaol on. remand for some little time and it would not now be worth while to send him back again. Carson was remanded for sentence until to-day., Meanwhile inquiries are to be made to see whether the Seamen's Union can do anything for tho man who is apparently nomeless and friendless. ALLEGED THEFT. A remand till July 23 was granted Cuthbert O. Younghusband, who was charged with the theft of a bicycle valued at .£6, the properly of Herbert G«orge Smith.' Bail was allowed in the sum of .£2O. Edward Wilson, alias Waitson, was charged with stealing a greenstone bar brooch and certain other jewellery, from the dwellinghouso of John Cairns, of Papanui. The accused was remanded nntil July 23, bail being allowed in the sum of JCBO. OTHER CASES. Jamea Thompson' was fined 40s. for drunkenness, and made tho subject of a prohibition order. On a charge of steal-, ing six packets of tobacco, the property of Sing On Tie, ho was fined 2Qs. with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. A fino of 40s. was imposed upon John M'Kayle,; convicted of having been in a state of intoxication whilst in charge of a horse and cab. James Oliver Armstrong was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment on his conviction of stealing a chair from the doorway of a second-hand dealer's shop. John Donohue, who was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, was remanded for medical inspection. Jano Schaare was sentenced to <i month's imprisonment for importuning passers-by. On a similar charge Louisa Tierney was ordered to be placed in the Salvation Army Homo for a period of six weeks. The' following offenders were fined for insobriety:—Norman Campbell, 405.; John Burn, 405.; Terence Smith, 4fls.; John Douglas, 10^.; and Mary Harding, ss.