MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2792, 9 June 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES

UNFORTUNATE RETURNED - SOLDIER .Mr. D.G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The returned soldier, John Edwin Henderson, who since coming home had been employed ns nightwntchman at the Base Records Office, and had confessed to taking knives, medals, razors, foreign coins, etc., from the kits of deceased soven soldiers, came again before the Court. Mr, P. W. Jackson, who appeared for accused, said that Henderson . had been with the Main Expeditionary Force, had served on Gallipoli, 'had two sunstrokes, and had been, twice wounded. He returned with a large collection of small trophies, and evidently had a kind of mania for acquiring trifles. He was pot destitute, and altl)OBgh he told the police he wanted to sell the things to raise money, he had over ,£9 in his possession. What with sunstrokes and wounds, his counsel thought the accused was row mentally defective, and for these purloinings from dead-men's kits he was not responsible. If' he were in. possession of all his faculties, his was a mean and despicable offence, and no pity ought to be shown towards him. Counsel would have called the young man's mother, but the Magistrate accepted Mr Jackson's statement, and ordered the. accused to be medically examined. The case was remanded for a week, Inspector Hendrey remarking that it was a distressful case. , A young woman named Edith Conroy,' alias Jordan, was charged with stealing a Rotherham watch of the value of £2 10s. from a man named Harry Smith. She pleaded not guilty, and on the application of 'Inspector Hendrey was remanded for a week, bail. being granted on her 'own recognisance of .£lO.

With his head sewn iip and swathed in linen, Ernest Walter Hallett was charged with assaulting Charles. Clark, who was in turn charged with assaulting Hallett. Tho latter said his head had not been cut open' by ClaTk, but by someone else. .'lTie medical expenses in connection with Hallctt's injuries amounted to .£1 lis. Gd., said Inspector Hendrey, and His Worship, thinking sufficient bad blood had been spilt by tho accused to keep them quiet, convicted andordered them to come. up for sentence when called upon. Hallett was ordered to pay the medical expenses incurred. UNDEFENDED CASES. Judgment was given by default for the plaintiffs in tho following civil cases by ill'. W. G. Bidde|i,' S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday The London "Times" v. George Ward, .£G 19s. fid., costs il 3s. Gd.; Oarlyle Beatson llobertson,. assignee of tho estate of Mrs., S. J, Shore, v. Samuel Jane,' ,£4 19s. 6d., costs Us.: W. Wiggins, Ltd., v. Charles White, dElft 4s. 2d., costs £2 10s. Gd.; H. J. AVhite and Son v. John M'Cole, .£1 Is. 9d., costs 10s.; B. Reginald Collins and Co., Ltd., v. H. B. Gormley, £7.25., costs wSI 7s, 6d.; Commercial Agency, Ltd., and Wellington Gas Co., Ltd., v. Charles John Johnston, *6!) ss. Gd., costs 3s. Gd.i Commercial' Agency, Ltd., and Thomas Horton, Ltd.,. v. J. H. Henderson, ,£lO, costs ,£1 3s. Grl.; Blundell Bros., Ltd., v. Albert H. Light, £1 10s., costs 55.; Conn morcial Agency, Ltd.,' and J. L. Lord v.. W. Sinimonds, JBS 13s. Gd., costs £1 3s. 6d. l same v. J. Higgins, yfiii. Is. 3d., costs £\ 3s. Gd.; C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hard, ware Co., Ltd., v. James Sievers, £b 11?, 9d., costs £1 3s. Gd.; British Imperial Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., v. B. Muirhead, ia 3s„ costs .£1 3s. Gd.; same v. i W. Beale and Co., .£ll, costs il 10s. Gd.; l'helps,- Wilson, and Co, v. ICoith K. Armstrong, -£9 lis. 9d., costs .£1 3s. Gd.; Andrew Yates Lee 9 v. Charles Thorns, .£36 4s. sd„ costs .£2 lis.; Veitcli and Allan v.. H. B. Evans, ■XI 45., costs 75.; same v. A. J. Cudby, .£3 lis. 4d„ costs Us.; Equitable Building and Investment Co. v. Thomas Stanley Sawtell, .£2 4s„ costs 125.; Coramer. cial Agency, Ltd., and Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., v. W. Findlay, .£4 19s. 9d., costs 10s.; Imperial Conservatory of Music v. Walter H. Anderson, 13s. Gd., costs ss.

JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.

Thomas Dillon was ordered to pay tho Wellington Bakers and Pastrycooks' Union the sum of £112s. 4d. before June 22, in default to undergo four days' im-' prisomnent. H. J. Keogh was ordered to pay to Messi'6. Young and Anderson, ot' Uuriisdin, tho sum of <£3 19s. lid. by .Tune 22, in default three days' imprison, liient.

DEFENDED CIVIL ACTIONS. A case was before Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., yesterday, in which Messrs. Richardson, M'Cabe, and Co., Ltd. {Jfr. T. Young), sued Messrs. A. and T. Burt (Air. D. M. Findlay) for the sum of i£2l ts. 6d., being balance on account of a filter supplied to the Boys' Institute! The plaintiffs . supplied the filter under contract to the defendants, .who had .the work of fitting up the bath. The defendants held that certain pipes were to have been supplied witli the 'filter. As they had to supply these pipes themselves, they deducted their cost from tho amount of plaintiff's' account for tho filter. As contracts and documents had to be examined, judgment was reserved. A Maori iiamed To Koroneho had been occupying a. house on' The Terrace, for which he was to have paid 31s. 6d. per week rent to Mr. Wilhelm Farquhar Eggers, estate agent, but the rent. was in arrears 155., and on the application of Messrs. Meek and von Haast, who, through Mr. Willis, appeared for -the plaintiff, tho Maori was ordered to pay the amount in arrears, and a warrant for his ejection was to issue on Juno 22, and made returnable by June 29. JUVENILE COURT. In the Juvenile Court, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., two boys, for throwing stones in Brougham Avenue, were admonished and discharged, their parents having Hogged the boys. There were four charges against a boy of eleven years of age, and he was*, convicted and sent to Weraroa Farm, his father being ordered to contribute 10s. per week.