MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

HAIRDRESSERS' ACTS. PREMISES USED FOR BETTING. THE CHINESE AGAIN. Two sots of gamiiig prosecutions we.ro heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and both were the results of recent raids by Cassells. One related ta bookmaking ow hersc-raciiig and tlie ather to pak-a-poo. | William Georgo Boslier, hairdressar and tobacconist, Cuba Street, was fined £'20 for haying used his premises as a CGinmou gaming-house. Bother pleaded guilty, and his counsel, Mr. I)\ P. Kelly, asked that the fine should bo light. Poliee-Inspcctor Hendfoy stat«l that Bosher hadbeeircarryiiig on bookmaking in a fairly largo way. When arrested on Thursday he had: a somewhat largo sum of money in his pockets. Tlra maximum penalty provided for was £100, aiul tho inspector asked for severe punishment.'

Mr. Kelly said that this wag .Basher's "first '■■■ excursion into the woslbroking trado," and, as the business had been, nipped in the bud, lie thought that a small penalty would sufiice. The reason why over £30 had been found in defend', ant's possession was tkit Thursday sv-as the day of an important race meeting (tho Wanganui Meetiag). Bosher's fine was paid out cf the money (£37) found in his pessessian.

SEARCHLIGHT ON CHINATOWN. Kow Kee waß chafgel with having kept 149 Taranaki Street as a comniew gaming-house. Ho pleaded guilty, and Mr. E. li. Kirkcaldio spoke in his be-* half. Counsel said tjiat accused was an, old market gardener from the_ V/aira», rapa, who had fallen ajran, times of' financial stress, ifod, having a family to keep, ho bad succumbed to tbe temptation of earning a little money at palc-a-poo. He was married to a white woman, a daughter of his was out at service, and two of his sons war© in the Territorials. A fino of £20 and tests was imposed. Ah Quee admitted having kept_ 40 Haining Street as a romnwu gaminghouse.. Mr. J. F. W. Dickson appealed for him. Inspector Hendrey stated that' about 40 convictions for pnk-a-poiv gambling were made last but-tho evil did not seem to baye been chitcked. As soon as ono Chiiveso was c-mvicted' another filled his' place, 8-nil the vtork went .on as merrily as before, Accused was fined £20, with costs. All Shew was fined .£s' for living been found in a. common gaminghouse (149 Taranaki Street). A charge- of having a-siisted in tho management of a lottery with withdrawn by' Inspector Hendrcy, who remarked that tji-e case for the prosecution appeared to ."'just fall short of proof." Ah Shew had a number of. pak-a-poo tickets in his pos" session when 110 was awested, ai»d tho allegation was that ho was dfetritating these in the.capacity of ft. lunue-r for one of the "banks;"

SENT BACK TO WALES. Charles Massie, who was formerly in the service of. tho borough of Aberys' Jiirth, in Wales, was ordered to be returned to Wales to answer fharges, of having uttered aii order for £3 Is. 2d., ■ with intent'to defraud., and of having embezzled £3 9s, &nd £3 7s. (id. Massie. is a man well on in aiid 110 and his wife, havo been rbout six months in New Zealand, lie complained that proceedings should have been tiikeu against him sooner.

CHINESE & SHOPS ACT. Yee Wall and Co. and Woy Kee and Co. pleaded guilty to selling cigarettes after 8 p.m. Young How Bros, also adniittod having sold tobacco rjter that hour. Each defendant was hiicd 10s., with costs 7s;

STOTO/lISTS IN COURT, ' ' For having permitted motor-cars stand without lights in a thoroughfare at night Edmund DeiM jra» fined 55., with costs 75.; Edward Kearney was fined 55., with costs 75,; Thomas Charles Hislop was convicted,and discharged. John Swinson was fitted 55.., with easts 75., for having left a motor-ear unattended in Manners Street,

John M'Kenzio,vHarold Richards, and John Herbert Kinniberg were each fined 55.,. with costs 75.,' for having ridden mctor vehicles without registered numbers on them. /

BY-LAW CASES. Simoii (a coolie) and Kwong Man Lee Sliin Quee, (a Chinese) wero eaeh fined 55., with ffosts 75., for having smoked in an auction room.

Arthur Bladder was fined 10s., with costs 135., for having fired a revolver at Oriental Bay.

As tho person responsible for stock found wandering at large Victor Russo was fined 55., with «osts IBs,, and H, Walker £1, with costs £.1 15s,

Harold Wright was fined 55,, with costs 145., for having driven a vehicle across the intersection of Manners ai.d Cuba Streets at moro than a walking pace.

OTHER MATTERS. • " Francis Edgar Cooper was fined is., with costs 75., for failure t<s notify tho Inspector of Factories within 48 hours that a serious injury had befallen one of his emploj'ees. Archibald Doran was remanded to appear at Auckland on Starch 3 on a. charge of failuro to 1 provide for his wife.

For insobriety, Esther Collier was sen< tonced to ono months' iwprisonmeiut. Augusta Davidson was filled 10s. 1 For having used certain language William Newman was fined £3,

Henry Johnson, who was adjudged tho father of an illegitimate child, was ordered to • enter into a bond of £50 (ana find a surety) that he would provido for the infant.

KEY TO THE DEN,

HOW THE DETECTIVE.', GOT IT, "You say it was impossible to get into this place unless you were known to be a man who was going to gamble f" remarked Mr. J. F. W. Dickson to De-tective-Sergeant Cassells during tho hearing of a pak-a-poo case in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. "That is correct," replied tlio detec-* tive. , ,

Mr. Dickson: Well, iow did yoa get in? • '

Detective Cassells: A policeman let me in.

Mr. Dickson: But hoitr did the policeman get there?

Detective Cassells: ! put the policeman on to a bettor who didn't know tho policeman, and they arranged it.