MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2805, 24 June 1916, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

I'OI.ICE CASES. There was an early sitting of tho -Magistrate's (joint yesterday morning, wnen Messrs. 1. Salek and B. J). Hanlon.J.l'.'s, dealt with a number of police cses. ).''ivo first offenders were convicted and discharged. Ada Standt was remanded till Monday 011 11 charge of importuning and loitering. The justicca ordered Angus Gillies to be lined Ills., or 111 default IB hours' detention for inebriety.

"Wheu sober lie practised thieving, and when drunk lie used obscene langinge," was tho gravamen of the charges, against Basil Jirown, who had broken a jug valued at Is. lid., the property of Alichael I'appas, anil stolen a bottle of vinegar valued at Is. lid. .For being drunk, he was convicted, was ordered to refund tho value, of the goods damaged and stolen, and was sent to gaol for one month for. using bad language., l.''our shillings for witnesses' expenses was also debited against lum.

It was an aggravated case of drunkenness and obscene language that vss preferred against Patrick John Coyle, whoso previous convictions ran into numbers, bo Their 'Worships sent him to gaol for three months.

On a charge of having assaulted Harry Kerr at Auckland 011 June 0, and stolen !iss. from him, 'Walter Kerr was remanded to appear in the northern city on Juno 311.

■Sham Singh was charged with indecency, and having elected to be Ined to) a jury was remanded till June 28.

David Armstrong Ogilvie pleaded not guilty to'.a' charge of having stolen a bicycle valued at M, the property of Francis KavanagU, and was remanded till Monday in order that he might engage .counsel. Jiail was fixed' at Jt2s, ajud one surety or £25, Alfred Spratt was charged with the theft of four singlets, value 95., Hie property of Alexander Dimdore. £ censed pleaded not guilty, and he was remanded till Juno 2G.

A similar charge, with the addition of a pair of boots valued at 255., was preferred a man named Joseph Kennedy. The owner of the g-oods -was Alex. Dimdore. As accused pleaded not guilty, ho, too, was remanded till June 26. On a charge of using bad language, assaulting tho police, and damaging a policeman's helmet, valued at lis. (id., Joseph Kennedy wns also remanded till Monday. Meantime the police are to make in. quirics into the antecedents of both Spratt and Kennedy. A young man named .Tames Connor entered the box to answer a charge on remand of having stolen sums of money and various nrticles valued in all at .£2l 2s. 6d. At the request of tho police, whose case was not yet complete, accused was further remanded till .Tune 30. Bail was fixed at .£IOO in personal recognisanco and one surety of-.£loo. •A mdtried' man,, with a.wife and three children, bearing the linme of Harold Granville, was charged with having unlawfully worn, the King's uniform without permission of His Excellency, the Governor. Accused pleaded that he'had roturned home and found that bis wife had cleared out, and taken liis civilian clothes. lie wns a discharged soldier from the camp. The Justices were not satisfied, and the police said Granville had been brought to them by the military police. Aocused'was remanded till Monday.

"It is doubtful, your Worships," observed Inspector Hondrey, "if tlii" man Scott Priest is the subject of inebriety or is mentally defective." The chargo was one of "helplessly drunk," Mid the Justices remanded accused for medical treatment.