MAGISTRATE'S' COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S' COURT

"BRUTAL AND COWARDLY ASSAULT"

CHINAMAN SENT TO GAOL

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday a charge of aggravated assault was preferred against a middle-aged Chinaman named Man You. The woman alleged to be assaulted was Annie Geary, the affair having taken place at Kilbirnie on Saturday. i Inspector Hendrey informed the Magistrate that the proceedings had been taken under, the Justices of the Peace Act, which gave the Bench power to impose a sentence of six' months and a penalty not exceeding £20. The offence was a particularly brutal and cowardly one.. The woman in question was living with a Chinaman at Kilbirnie, and on Saturday evening was brutally assaulted by the accused. Accused was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. There was another charge against accused, of assaulting G. Boye at Christchurch on February 8, and causing actual bodily harm.' --In. asking for a remand, to Christchwrch, Inspector Hendrey remarked that it was alleged that the injuries in this case had been inflicted with a knife. ■ OTHER CASES.' Albert Saunders appeared to answer three charges: (1) Assaulting Lottie Saunders, (2) using obscence language, (3) stealing, on May.9 last, two blankets from ."Robert Saunders. Accused, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted on tho evidence on tbe first charge, being fined £1 or seven days' imprisonment'; on the second, £2 or one month's imprisonment'; and on the charge of theft, 10s., or three days'. imprisonment. ' Alfred Henry Dunn, was remanded till Friday on a charge.of deserting-his ' wife Ellen Mary Y. Dunn, in Tasmania, on April 28. last. An information against George Grey charged with accompanying Mary Barclay into an hotel knowing her to be a prohibited person was dismissed. INSOBRIETY.' Chas. Hy. O'Loughlin, a prohibited person, was fined 10s. for drunkenness. An application was mado that ho be sent to Roto Roa. Accused was defended by Mr. J. P. W.,Dickson. After hearing the evidenco the Magistrate ordered O'Loughlin to como up for sentence when called upon. .' Bartholomew Mahoney, who did not appear to answer a charge of committing a breach of his prohibition order, was fined £1, witb costs 75., or seven days' imprisonment. . For' drunkenness, Phillip Hy. Merryweather was fined £2, or fourteen clays' imprisonment; Amy Murphy, Chas. Wni. Howard, and Wm. Dennehy were each fined 10s., or forty-eight hours' imprisonment; soven first offenders were dealt with. MAINTENANCE CASES. ' * Walter Herbert Anderson and Win. John Anderson.were each charged with failing to contribute to the maintenance of their motber. Tho former was ordered to contribute ss. a week,''and thc'latter.,los.. a week, each to pay costs, 10s. 6d. 'For disobeying a maintenance' order issued against him, Alexander Robertson was • sentenced to threo days' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended 'on payment of 2s. 6d. a : week off the arrears, and Court costs 10s. 6d. V... JJOVENILE COURT. : In the Juvenile Court a boy of fifteen •years was remanded to September 10 on a charge of stealing a bicycle, valued at £10, the property of tho Rov. J. G. Chapman. • . 7 ■ CRIMINAL TRIALS, AUCKLAND SESSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) • . Auckland, September 7. William Tynan,, charged with attempting to murder his daughter on .May 19, was found guilty at tho Supremo Court to-day, sentence being deferred until to-morrow. -Tynan waylaid his little daughter on her return from school, cutting her throat with a razor, the injuries being of a serious character. A plea of, insanity was Taised by. the defence. ( LOWER HUTT COURT. At the Lower Hutt Police Court yes» terday, before Messrs. Chapman and James, J.P.'s, Geo. Henry Kells, for making use of certain objectionable language on Saturday night, was convicted and discharged.