MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2144, 9 May 1914, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

UNHAPPY WHARF ' j FOREMAN ASSAULTS A WORKER. A story of assault on a watersider by a labour foreman was told in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. ■ Alexander Ootids, a labour foreman: for the Union Steam Ship Company, was charged with having assaulted Sataucl Godfrey. I'tjlico Inspector Bendrey stated i'ne police had obtained evident® t<: the effect that in the eooraf of his employment Godfrey had been supplied with a truck. Me was sitting on it waiting to carry out his work, when det'e/'idnnt caroo up anil demanded the truck, Godfrey raised some objection to this, whereupon the defendant 'struck him a- heavy blow on the iSOuth, -loosening some cf his teeth arid knocking ■ him. to the ground. ' Whilst he was still on the ground. Dodds kicked him. A number of bystanders iiwm interfered, ana prevented 4he defendant from further am : snultinj* complainant. The truck was Mm proiiefty of the Hai'hoiif Board, not of two union Company. Defendant's version of the c-cciirrcnoo was that l'to had asked Godfrey for the track, and when tlw latter refused -witness had knocked hiui on. the legs with tho truck. - Dadds then cuffed the de- ' fondant' over thfc ear and IdbkCfl him, inspector Itciidroy remarkc-d that a laboivr foreman should treat bis men better than that- It- might- have been done in the days of • "uncto Tow s Cabin," but it was not permissaho now. *3:110 Magistrate convicted, and fined tho defendant £I,With costs 30 : s-. SAFETY OF CITIZENS. AN ALLEGED NIGHT .'AFFAIR. Before Sir. W, G. lUddcil, S.M., yesterday. On'ftH Gladstone feffaii ami Thorns M'Namn.ra were jointly' charged with having assaulted and robbed Mutiam Tfesmfs Bc-riijatnffl,'of the sum at 16s. Bub-Inspector Shcehaft proseentoa and Mr. 11. £~ O'Leary defended. William Iknjamto Uoddanl, employed at the Occidental Hotel, said tliafc. h? ■was in Tafanaki Street on the night <st May 1. H« met both accused (whom he. did not know) outside a house in Frod» oriels Street. Witness walked pww<y. down tie street, when he was suddenly' seized from behind- M'Namara put to arni round witness's threat, au-d kept a titxlib jrripj, whilst .tho accused hwau. .searched' his pockets. When witness gat frcb he called out -TobeeP and gave chase ,to M'Namara, whom he eaught ■ and handed over to the police. l~e had : identified Swan some lour <iays auor ; the occurrence-. Re had, m faot,-ri.ot thc- ; slightest -doubt as to the identity of ! bath men. , u , ' 'iVJIf. O'Lcary: The assault took i places between 10.20 p.m. and 10.30 , P 'KntMeen Gray, a resident of Frederick Street, stated that. sho saw Jjoth | the accused in tho street on the ni-gh of May 1, and she also saw 3 p-oddard was then calling oat loUceOwwtoWe jfetthew Shwliafi stated _ h> heard someone calling out ua Frelrick Street, and when he arrived there, • he met Goddard «»<i the accused 1 M'Naiiiara. Gofldard gave M Samara f 1„ charge stating that he had. been .; fobbed. ■ M'Namara denied assaulting ' or robbing' . ,: Sergeant Daniel Murphy, statiwuetj at Mount Cook, said that Goddard. had madb a statement, at tho Polio?. Station f charging M'Namara witft assault and I robbery? M'Namara had denied having a had anyone with hmi. ' . , I)eto.cttVGv Sergeant Ctissßwa said thftw B oh the afternoon of May 5, he met acy cused Swan and took hiffl to tho Maii- '• ners Street Police Statioa.. Ho tsfced him whether ho had been with M Kafflara jrt Frederick Street on the' -night ' of May 1 and Swan replied - that tw s had been in Haining Street _ with n M'Namara. Later in the day witness '1 took Swan -ta tho Moutlt- Cook Police " Station and eluirgfld ,him with the oh fence. Swan had .CaiOs. Od.in Ins posc sesskm when taken into custody, is Both accttsad pleaded not guilty and & were ccmniittod to the Supremq Court 's for trial. OTHER CASES, e ONB JtOP.F, CHANCE GRANTED. ' SarnU-el 3?omeroy guilty to a charge of I'iavi.tig stolen, a bicyclo valued at £5, thp property of the Wellington „ .Haibear Board. The facts of tho ease as mentioned st in Court wera t-hat, in March last, the re i arcttscd had taken tho bicycle from out!e side the Harbour Board's cilice. He - had filed tho number off tile iMacniito a and altered it in a manner to prevent lC ' identification. The bicycle had been *' fwusd in accused's possession on Thurs- ' day. 'Police Inspector Hendi'ey stated that Poinei'oy had. been couvieted Inst month for stealing grapes, and- had been orj] (iert'tl io eome un for sentence when ... railed upon, on condition that lie paid '( ilie cost of the- stolon fruit. This he o liad noi. done. It was only iair :t [joint out. how-over, tliai the theft oi the 1, hicyclo had been committed pre\ - ioUB to s- the theft of the grapes.

' ■ ' ,-. t ■ Accused said that- .1)0 was' a iiia'rried c : man wrth six children, and had been J ; unable to get iforfc. Ho pleaded i'or another chanco and also intimated that' v j lie would keep out- of barl- compaiiv. .( | The Magistrate (Mr. W, U.; s | S.M.) said that ho would .give accused t smoother chance. "If yea cftreo before c mc again," addocl His \Vorsl;in, "yon „ [ ean oxneet to bo rather I'.arsiilv dealt „ I with, lou wtii be convicted atul order- J I ed'to come up for seiitenco w'li-oii called' }, upan." 4 .- , .- s THE SKELETON' KEI". j . James Olivet Artastroflg was' deemed i: to bs a and. a .vagabond in that t ho was found ,in jiflssessisn cf a house- a ■breaking imploweiit, to "wit, a skeleton t key. . " ' ■<, Arewsed told tho Magistrate that he -1, had found, the hey lying on the road, i The Magistrate rcniarkc.d that he did c ■not bfliiev'o the story. Afleiised wenkl c be- sente-iscod to three months 5 imprison- * mvnt. j AN EIDERDOWN QUILT.- ( Norton -Pago appeared' on .remand for ' sentence on :-i eluirge of stealing an j eiderdown qttilt, valued at .£!., the pre- »' -perty of Tiieresa Paissel!. - Ilisi'jeetor Hc-ntlrcy said that 'aeeii-sed ■ had been twico previotisly crnrvictocf, once for drunkenness, and on another occasion for resisting tiio police.; Ho j ~was, however, .a liard-svarkitig nian 3 and was a perfectly decent person* eseept when he was untk-r the- -hiftiieneo of liauor. . --. . ' Mr. F. W. .Jackson, who appeared fo'- accused, said thai he really shonld ' noi have pleaded guilty. Ho. had gone . to Russell's house, discovered' that sofiie . rooney-'was inissiug. and, iii his intosi- ; tiated state, had snatched up the qviiit. On being pursued he had thrown the ! article over a fence. , ' 1 In the circumstances, the- Magistrate ' merely -convicted tho accused .aiid «- { dercd him to eomo up for sentence ] whoii called upon. ESCAPE FROM A IJOMF,. ] Cliarg-es o! iivsebiiety and escaping: ( from thß Salvation Army' Heuie were ■ ; preferred againsh Jlary Barclay. Qn • tho first ebtiut Safe was fined 105.. s (lntl' • on the sc-f oml charge she was sent to , ; gaol for two months, and was ordered ; ' to lie returned- to the home at the ex-: pinition o!' il'.e sentmce. i A DIi'SOM\NTAC. With a total of one hundred and thirty-seven previous contie'tiions, Nptah who pieatfcd guilty to a charge of iiisflbristy,. was- sentenced * to. oije atouth's miprisQiiniwit. • ' ' •• : INSOBRIETY. Charles Baker, who was charged with insobriety, _ Was sent to giiol for cmo moiith. Fito first oficiiders were convicted and discharged. TKinUTORIALS. For failing to attend a Territorial parads, Frederick Oql'lfey w'as fined 55., ill default >1S hours' jiniiitary cirteniion. A number of other cases wero adjourned. ! ~—-X."