MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 18 October 1913, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TROUBLE OVER TRAIN TICKET. NO CASE TO ANSWER. Some outcrop of rather peculiar features was disclosed in a caso whjch Mr. W. G. Biddell, S.M., dismissed at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. In this caso, a chargo of having unlawfully attempted to make uso of a railway ticket .between Lower Hutt and Wellington, when the time for its proper uso had expired, was preferred against a young woman. Mr. T. M. Wilford, who appeared to defond, said that the case was a most extraordinary one. His client a' rofeponsiblo position, as was also her father, and matters pertaining to the case had been talked about a good deal. His client had been practically charged with fraud, and yet the Railway Department did not now undertake to put a witness into tho box to prove its case. After giving some details connected with the charge, Mr. Wilford expressed his intention of taking tho matter to a higher Court. Ho mentioned that he hud been detained from 10 to "12 o'clock in tho Court over tho oase, and had two witnesses there, and yet had not been informed that tho case would not be proceeded with., ' . The Magistrato stated that the information must be dismissed, as the informant did not appear. It was improper that tho Department should lay such an information, and then not appear in Court. Police Inspector Hondry stated that the police knew nothing of the case. They had merely been instructed to lay tho information. Solicitor's fee 'and costs of two witnesses, amounting in all to 295., were allowed against the Department.

HOBART AFFAIR. Timothy John Watson, who had been twico remanded on a chargo of issuing au order at Hobart on August 1 for £49 2s. 6d., with intent to defraud, was further remanded till October 23, on tho application of Chief-Detective Brfiberg. The defendant raised objection to the application, and stated that ho had been confined for fifteen days, and two steamers had during that period left for Hobart. Tho remand, however, ■was granted.

PUSHED THROUGH WINDOW. Michael Stanton and John Rirrison wero jointly charged with damaging a pano of glass, valued at 255., the property of Ralph Milliard Green, at the corner of Vivian and Tnranaki Streets. Defendants pleaded guilty. They admitted that they had been fighting, find one had pushed the other through the window. They were each fined 10s., and were ordered to make good the damage done. INSOBRIETY. For insobrioty Mary Smith and Cornelius Sullivan were each fined 205., and for similar offences Charles Hobday and : Michael Stanton were fined 10s. each. [ Joseph John Barrett was declared an i habitual drunkard, and was sent to the Rota Roa Inebriates' Home for one year. Three first offenders were leni. ently dealt with. BY-LAW CASES. Walter Matterson, charged with failing to properly comply with the notico: "Stop! Look Out for tho Engine 1" at Whitmore Street railway crossing, was fined 10s. and 19s. costs. For failing to comply with .drainage notices, Henry T. Johns was fined 205., and costs 75., and E. Humphreys was fined 10s., and costs 245. 6d. Ernest Wm. Lutz, charged with unlawfully exposing for saio meat' not slaughtered in a registered abattoir, was fined 205., and coßts 7s. A fino of 10s., and costs 95"., was imposed on Nicholas Fernados, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being tho owner of. a dog which had attaoked Robert Garnoch at Wellington on August 30. The defondant statod that ho had since destroyed the animal. TERRITORIALS. For failure to attend Territorial parades, Walter Norman Connelly and, Donald Tasman Stewart were each fined ss._, and costs 75., and Alfred E. Stockbridge was ordered to pay costs 7s. The default in each case was fixed at twenty-four hours' military detention.