MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

~ PAli-A-POO AGENT'S POSITION, FINED £10 AND ENTERS APPEAL, •On 'a charge of assistiiig in the, lriai)--age'iiiont .of n lottery kiwifh as palt-a-poo, Ah IjiMii was found guiitv bv Mr, W. fi. Ridddl. .S.M., at tbc Magistrate's Court oti Saturday, and fined. £10, with Costs 7s. The e.videnre in Lwm's case ■ was heard on. Wednesday last, ami the Magistrate had reserved bis decision.

His. Worship .stated that it had Ijeeiiproved that the defendant had called iit No. 21 Raining Street and put two ])ak-a-poo bank tickets into the letterbox, i.botonging to tite house. Ho Was tfterfe-scir-Sed by two constables, and he afterwards dropped avef" forty similar bank tickets on the floor, 'fh© defendant tlenied that he dropped any tickets or piaced anything in the lctic;r-box. The (ivider.ce oil this point was, stated His Worship, against the defendant. "The. fact tint these bank tickets were ii>. defendant's possession, and that- he delivered tsvo at Na» 21 show that.. a lattery had bfre,n drawn, and the results hc:o feeki.g distributed."

(Wtinning, His Worship stated that Mr. Dieksoii, counsel for the defendant, had submitted that defendant could Hot ho eoßVicteii of assisting i.ii the.management of. a lottJerj' becatiso tfits Court fad ne evidence of the cxistenco of any princ])ia! who was managing a lottery with the. assistance of defendant, and that there : Was ' iwt sufficient" evideneo that the ;;amo of palfTa-poo had been played. ; The mere fact, that- a number of ft esbly-printed hank tickets liad befell found in tlcfendant's .possession was sufficient wvidcnee—tmM tlio contrary is' proved- -to shew that a lottery bad been drawn aiid *he results were being distributee]. The defendant had already been convicted on a similar e.bargc. and he. must- he again convicted. Ho would Ik* fined £10, ■ and costs 7s. . Security for appeal Was tiSod at £& Bs. Ti;e second charge against accused of nrnning a common gaUiiiig-hotise was withdrawn.

MISCELLANEOUS. . Susan M'l/aaghlin, chained wi.tji.importuning, Was sentenced 'to ■ '0110 month's imprismurent. Richard Henry J'oxton pleaded guilty to A,c'iiargp of. stealing certain wcwiwg appareL yaltted. at ,£o,. .the. preperty..« George Fitagerald, and was .remanded until Wednesday tor .sentence.

Three first- offenders'* fart 1 insobriety were clealt with. ' . •