MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2509, 12 October 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MAINTENANCE.

Charles Henderson, a. watersido ■worker, was sentenced-to two months' imprisonment for failure to riiaintain Ijis five children, who are being brought lip In a. State institution. Tlio wairant is to be suspended so long as Henderson pays 275. 6d. par week, being amount of":-tie order (255.) and: an additional ' sum of 2s. 63. in payment of the arrears, which were reduced .to £10. Mr. :P. : W. . Jackson ..appeared for the accused..., . " Francis Gomez, who was before tho Court in connection with failure'to pay maintenance, was granted' remission, of the arrears, amounting to £7 10s. ,' O'Halloran was ordered to cpntributo to the of Lis three children,- 6s. per week in every case. .Carl Neilson was sentenced to 17 days imprisonment for failure to comply with a. maintenance, order, but may keep out of gaol if he makes legiilar future payments of 7s. 6d. per week. In like manner John Millanta may avoid a sentence of ten days' imprisonment for hreaoh of a maintenance order if he keeps up regular weekly payments of 4s. .'An ex' parts application resulted in John , Henry, a soldier with the 4th Tteiriforcemente, being ordered to paySi s. per weak towards the maintenance of his wife. .■ ' SERIOUS CHAHGE.' 'A. young man, named George Maco, ..pleaded gnilty to .two. charges of indecent exposure and • was sentenced' to three months' imprisonment. It was mentioned by the police that. tha accused had previously been before the Court on a similar charge, but had been tried by a jury and acquitted. ADJOURNED. Several cases nrisin? out of a seizure of liquor at. 2 Holland Street on a Tecent Sunday were adjourned, until Monday next, as Mr. B. G. Jellicoe, who was to appear for two of the defendants, was engaged yesterday.,morning in the Court of Appeal. ■ . 'ASSAULT. -. .. 'Albert 'Willing Bell was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, but for assaultine som9 person, unknown he wasfined 10s., the alternative . being 48 hours' imprisonment. 'A similar penalty was imposed, in tho case}' of James O'Neill, who was convicted of assaulting Andrew Casey. OBSTHUOTING THE POLICE, 'Albert Durston, when char F.ed with obstructing the police, admitted that he had climbed over the barrier on to the wharf near tlie troopships, but"denied that he had struck a constable'.' He bad been anxious to see his brother, who was with the 7th Reinforcements. Tho Magistrate took a lenient view of tho ra.se, entered a conviction, and ordered Durston to oome up for sentence when called upon. . . , ... BAD. LANGUAGE. •. For using obscene rlanguags,',. Guy Cockburn was fined. _£3,' hi default to undergo one month's imprisonment. On a charge of drunkenness, th(* same ac--cused was convicted aid discharged. W. Raffle admitted (by- letter)' that h'e had used obscene language nt Paskakariki ■on August 20 last. He was fined £3, '"and: ordered to pay' Court •costsi lis.,. in default to one month's imprisonments An eld' man named James Ashby plea,ded.guilty to having us»d bad laiifraage in Arthur Street recently, but the case'was not reported to be a serious one, and in view nf this the Magistrate recorded a conviction and ordered the accused to come iip for: sentence when called upon. OTHER CASES. :. K young' woman named Edith Conroy, pleaded srpilty to a charge of oscaping from lawful distention at'the Salvation Ai-mv Homo, She was sentenced! to 'one month's imprisonment, and at.'the end Af that term will be returned to the borne. " A fine of 40s. and costs £2 2s. was imposed on G. W. Van Slyke, charged TOtlr assaulting Ern.est A. Linton. Stanley Jlathias did riot appear to answer a charge of drunkenness/and his bail (:305.) was estreated. A similar .course was adopted in ths case of Janies Hogg Cocker, who had been admitted to hail in the sum of 205., on a charge of drunkenness. Alfred Friss, who had been found helplessly drunk in tho Upper Hutt district, was remanded for a iveok for curative treatment. Alexander Pattie and George Keenan, two prohibited persons, who had been arrested for drunkenness, were fined: 20s: each and given tlie alternative of a' brief period of imprisonment. William Rice pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was remanded for sentence nlowc with a first offender. Sub-Inspcc-tor M'Kinnon explained that the two men were deserters from a troopship, : and it would' be necessary to consult the military authorities in 'regard to them. For breaches of prohibition orders, • John William Lucas and Richard Wickham wore fined £2 each, with Court costs, . 75., tlio alternative in each case being 7 days' - imprisonment. On a similar charge, Susan Wilson, for whom Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared... was fined 10s., with costs 75., in thd. alternative to undergo 48 hours' imprisonment.'

For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods' Great Punoermint Cure, la, 6d,«