MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2205, 18 July 1914, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CHARGES OP THEFT: \' ■ 'Mr. D. G. A. Cooper,'S.M., presided over'yesterday's sitting of■ the Magistrate's Court. . ■".■'.-■. '.'.. ■■'■.. Basil Gordon. M'llwain was remanded till July 22, on a charge of stealing 1050 sacks, valued at £32 16s. 3d., tho property of Murray,.Roberts and Co. ; Bartlett Otene, a Maori, who was ■charged with the theft of articles of ,money, valued in all .at £13 125., tho property of Marie Selby, was remanded 'till July 22., Bail in the sum of £25 ■was allowed. - ' A sentence of seven days' imprisonment was imposed on a yonth named .Thomas'.Frederick-Everest,- who admitted stealing a quantity of chocolates, •vrilued ;-at. 3s. '.3d:,. the property of ■Joseph Hopkins Gniari ' ; ; A young girl named Kathleen Boyle pleaded guilty to a, charge of stealing £7 lCla.. tho property of _W. E. Cliamberlain. She was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The accused was also ordered to refund the money stolen in weekly instalments of ss. .. OTHER .CASES. ■ A sentence of three months' imprison--ment was imposed on. Violet Paten, who was deemed to be an. idle and disorderly person. On a charge of insobriety, Paton was fined £1 or three, days in gaol. V ' "' -'. .■■-." For insobriety, Nora. 'Williams, alias Nugent, and William Carrick wore fined £1 each. Two first., offenders were fined_ 10s. each, and six others were convicted and discharged. ' OBSTRUCTING PARADES. . John Alexander Hislop and Richard M'Avav were eaoh fined 55., and costs I 75., for-obstructing Territorial parades. I For failing to attend parades, Jack Haddock was fined 10s., aud Wm. Gordon Hollis was fined ss. . CRUELTY TO HORSES. On two charges of cruelly ill-treating horses, Frank August was fined £4 and costs £118s. In conjunction with the same charge, Maurice Welch. was convicted and discharged for sanctioning the use of the horses. Joseph Gwyne was fined £2 for ill-treating a horse. MOTORISTS AND THE BY-LAWS. Thomas Rowell and George Shirteliffe were- fined 10s. and ss. respectively for driving motor-cars at night without carrying tail-lights. E. Wyatt, who left a motor-car standing at night without a light, was,fined ss. ■■■ Dougla's Harrison anid Bert-Pettman were fined ss. and 10s. respectively for breaches of the Hunter. Street taxistand regulations. An information charging Alfred Dnrk with driving a motor-car in the Main Road.. Lower Hutt, at a speed exceeding twenty miles an hour was dismissed. For leaving.a motor-car unattended, Thomas Gollins was fined ss. and costs 7s. DRIVERS IN TROUBLE. _ Ernest Sergeant wits fined ss. for failins; to lock tho wheel of an express. Stanley. Brown was fined ss. for driving an eNpress at night without a light. • • ■' - . ON THE LONG PADDOOK. Ifor allowing stook to wnudor, Patrick Cavaungh was fined 10s. and costs 17s. fid. . Fof n like offence F. A. Saunders waa fined Cs. ,