MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

NEARLY A TRAGEDY

The unusual case of Bobert Curtice, charged' with attempted suicide and called to answer an application for sureties of the peace in that be threatened to Bhoot Mary- Ann Thew,. again /came before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. ; Inspector Hendrey, in explaining tho case, said that acoused had lived in tho same house as complainant. sHe had asked her to marry him, but' she had refused. Some time later accused had come to the house.with a revolver and threatened to shoot her.' She-had per-' suaded him to be reasonable, and he went away. Later complainant had received some letters from Curtice, and the next thing that occurred was when accused was discovered in ccniplainant'Byard bleeding from a bullet wound in the forehead self-inflicted.' He' .'was! found, trying to get into the house, Accused was taken to the hospital, and later charged with the present offences. He had been examined by Dr. Gilmer,; and Us mind was found to. be quite sound. He had been pronounced to be of-a particularly sullen and! morose dis.. position. Accused had apparently lost■his reason at'ftie time through .his.in-fat-iation for complainant. The night accused had ; shot himself two letters had beon found on him in which he practically declared that he would do away with himsof and complainant. Accused replied to this that ho' did not intendsto shoot complainant. The Magistrate said he hoped.that accused now-realised'tho foolishness of his rash act. On tho''first charge he would be ordered .to -pay expenses incurred, £4 165., and, on the second would bo ordered to: pay complainant's legal expenses, and to enter into a bond of £25 in his own recognisance, and oue surety of £25,' to keep the peace for the next twelve months, towards complainant.

OTHER CASES. Con Con-way appeared on Temand charged with being found., helplesslydrunk. He was and. ordered to pay medical expenses incurred, amounting to 17s. 6d. For drunkenness Florence Emeny was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and a prohibition order ordered to be taken out against her. Similarly charged, Patrick Daly was fined 205., i in, default three days' imprisonment; and Joseph Cowan was.fined IQs-, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.