MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

HOW STOP THEM? £50 PENALTY FOR BOOKMAKER. Fines amounting to £50 wore imposed on samuel Isaacs, a bookmaker, in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, respecting a recent betting transaction. Tho marges against Isaacs wero those of betting in tho Grand Hotel on October 13, and publishing a betting-card. Mr. B. J. Fitzgibbon appeared for him. Iho evidence for tho prosecution was that of two constablos, ono of whom was allegod to liavo made a bet with Isaacs. Isaacs denied the transaction, and dc- ! dared that ono of tlio constables had not been sober on ono occasion on which tbey met. Inspector Hendroy was proceeding to

question defendant as to whether. he had gono under a namo other than Isaacs in Victoria, when the Court upheld an objection to tlio lino of crossexamination. Defendant, however, said that ho had gono by tho name of Isaacs in Victoria. Questions as to previous convictions, also, wero blocked 011 tho ground that that matter should have boon dealt wftli in another way. Defendant admitted that two hotclkecpers had ordered him off their premises, and added that it was because DetectiveSergeant Cassells had warned them that by allowing him there they were encouraging hotting. 'Ilio Magistrate convicted Isaacs on both charges, and fined him £30 011 tho first count, and £20 011 tho second. Lengthy time in which to pay was refused, but three days was allowed. Tho Magistrate remarked: "If he engages in this business ho knows tho risk he runs." SERIOUS CHARGES. Thomas Ryan appeared, charged with having forged the naino of W. H. Atack to a promissory note for £15 125., payable to the Empire Loan and Discount Co., Ltd., on order, and uttered tho note to 'William M'Lean; with having forged tho name of L. Blundell as an endorsement on a promissory noto for £3, payable to tho Empire Loan and Discount Co., Ltd., or order, signed "Frank E. Weston," and uttered the same t-o William M'Lean, with tho intention that it should bo acted upon as genuine; and with having fraudulently omitted to pay or account for £10 4s. to J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd. The defendant was remanded till Saturday. 111 asking for bail, 110 said that he had intended to pay back tho whole of tho money. Bail was fixed at £30, with two sureties of £40 each. NOISY WOMAN IN COURT. Lilian Jukes created another mild scene in tho dock. She was charged v.ith being an idle and disorderly person, and Constable Wilson gave evidence that lib had frequently seen her in bad company. Jukes protested that the constable was committing perjury; and made frequent interruptions. When tho Court sentenced her to threo months' imprisonment, slio indulged in considerable noisiness and some abuse, and had to be removed from the Court. TROUBLE AT RESTAURANT. "Yus, Sor, after he had damaged my eye," was the form of pleading guilty adopted by Henry Wilkins, who was charged with having broken a restaurant window. The police stated that tho restaurantkeeper had had occasion to removo tho defendant from his premises, and that the trouble mentioned then ensued. Wilkins was fined £2, with Court costs, and ordered to pay tho amount of tho damage (£3 10s.). The default was fixed at twenty-one days' imprisonment. RISK OF "LONG HOLIDAY." John Douglas pleaded guilty to having been found drunk for tho fifth umc within tho last sis months. He is a prohibited man, and the Magistrate remarked that lie was running a risk of receiving "a long holiday." Ho gave defendant another chance, lining him £2, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. STREET RIDING. Charles Francis Swain was ordered to pay £2 2s. costs on a charge of having ridden a motor-bicycle negligently at the junction of Riddiford Street and Russoll Terrace. It was alleged that when Swain was riding through a crowd on Labour Day he knocked a woman over. Swain stated that 110 barely touched the woman, and that he was only riding at between two miles and four miles per hour at the time. OTHER CASES. For insobriety, Thomas Alderdico was fined 10s., in default forty-eight boms' imprisonment. Sydney James Henricks pleaded guilty to a charge of the theft of £6 75., belonging to Annie Hocking, and ho was remanded till Friday for sentence.