MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2826, 18 July 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE' CASES At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr. L, G. Eeid, S.M., dealt with a number of police cases. Bight first offenders for insobriety were convicted and discharged. '■Anthony Bannister was chargsd with being inebriated on Saturday night, and .was fined. 10s. Charles Dowsett, for supplying a soldier with liquor, was fined" .£2; with 7s. costs, or in default seven days' iinorison-' •meat. A prohibition order was granted issuo against James Ruddle, to operate in tho Wellington and-Hutt licensing districts. While the s.s. Tainui was in port a seaman named William. Tudcr wilfully disobeyed the second engineer of that vessel, and was fined 205., and for fiaiuagiiiE.the door'of tha second engineer's cabin, Tudor was ordered to pay 4Qs-, with Court costs 75., and to make good tho damage done. Mr. H. E. Evans, who appeared for the owners, asked that the man's wages should bs attached for tho amount of lines, Court costs, and damage, and the Court made an order accordingly. Mary Doody, a woman of 27 year.-, charged with importuning in Cambridge Terrace, _ was convicted and fined 205., ill default fourteen: days' imprisonment. For being intoxicated and breaking a pane of glass belonging to Denis M'Cartby, Mary Barclay was fined 10s„ or three days' imprisonment, and ordered to pay tho dawaga done to tha window. "I offered to pay for tho man who broke'-the window, but X did not'do it," said a young Frenchman, wearing tha King's uniform, and named Emile Octave d Anglade, in response to a charge of being inebriated and breaking a pane of glass, value 80s., the property of .Tames Dealy, licenses of the Railway'Hotel, 'on Saturday night. . He was convicted on the minor charge, ordered to pay for tho damaged window, and to be handed over to the military authorities. • "These young men," said Inspector Hendrey, in reference to Murray Wallace Hunter and Charles Dowsett, "were found quarrelling on Sunday, about 1 o'clock in the morning. ' No one raw them save the policeman who made their arrest." They pleaded guilty, nnd were fined ss. each. A ■ DISORDERLY PERSON. .Being aJi idle and. disorderly person, George Wilson was ordered last week out of. the Empire Billiard Saloon, but'he spat in the manager's face, pulled his nose, and tried to hit him. Returning two days later, the accused struck Percy Edward Tremaine, the manager, who said he had given tho accused no nrovocation whatsoever Mr. H. F.-O'Leary, who appeared for Mr. Alexander Dunn, who had. gone to Palmerston. North, said lis was instructed to pres3 for a. substantial penalty against accused, for he was one of' an undesirable class- that billiard saloon managers wanted to keep out. Accused iras lined £3, and witnesses' expenses, Bs., or in default 21 days' imprisonment. On account of Inspector Hendrey having found some questionable gambliug instruments in Wilson's pockets, tho Magistrate remanded tho accused on the charge of being "idle and disorderly, and having .no lawful means of support" till Thursday, in order to allow of the police, making some inquiries, for, said Inspector Hendrey,- "I believe the man's, name is not Wilson at all." A STRANGE CASE. "I have known the accused 'for ten years; he worked for me for four or five years, and proved himself a sober, honest worker." Such was tho character Mr. Owen Daly, contractor, gave Albert Rainsford Haslem, who was storeman at Sharland and Co.'s, Ltd., and was charged with the theft of a cask of vinegar, valued at ill 16s. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for accused, who pleaded guilty, and his solicitor explained that his client, had hitherto borne a good character, and had offered to make restitution. ■ Mr. W. F. Larkin, manager of Messrs. Sharland and Co.'s business, gave evidence to this effect, but ho preferred, he said, that the case should be dealt with by the Court. The Magistrate, said that as there was nothing previously agaivist Haslem, who had made a strange lapse, he w6uld fine him -10s., and ordered him to pay Sharland and Co. tho value of the vinegar.

FURTHER. REMANDED. Charles Booth, who has been before tho Court on remand for the alleged theft of 31b, of butter, value 55., tha property of the Anchor Line Shipping Co., was again further remanded till Thursday. On Jthe. application of Mr. J. Dickson, Janiei Henry Bray, who is charged with the theft of .6150 worth of patent medicines from Sharland and Co., Ltd., was also further remanded till Wednesday. It is prob'tbla that then a day will bo fixed for the hearing 'of, similar cases against J. Connor, Ed\var(l Hellawell, and J. T. Morris. AN INDICTABLE 'OFFENCE. A fair-haired Swede, some 2G years ot age, named Karl Andersen, a greaser on board the s.s. Tainui, had been ashore on Saturday night, and on returning somewhat intoxicated singing, as'he said, Swedish love songs, quarrelled with his shipmates, William Haines, Alfred Holbrook, and Frederick-.John Canning, who bad told him to "shut up." This broke lip the melody, which merged > into a melee in the fo'pastle, in which Andersen seized a broken table-knife and cut Canning's thumb and fingers (v.-hich necessitated Dn Hc-nry putting in a couplo of stitches in' one wound), scratched the oheek of Holbrook, and inflictod a "quits superficial wound," to use - the doctor's phrase, on Haines's lnist. None of thpinjuries were serious, and Andersen himself wore a bandage smeared with blood about his own arm. After hearing evi-dence-the Magistrate committed the ac-. cused to the Supreme Court for trial. MAINTENANCE. CASES. Theophile. Collard was ordered to pay 15s. a week towards the support of Phoebe Collard. "You are JJ23 Bs. 6d. "behind in your maintenance money," said the Magistrate to Ernest Alfred Schultze, "and it is evident you cannot pay up. I will remit .£lO from the amount, and order you to pay 2s. 6d. per week, and sentence you to one month's 'imprisonment, but the ■ warrant will not issue if you make your contributions regularly." John Pearson was in arrears of maintenance i£lo Bs., and an order .was made that he would be sent to prison for one month unless ho paid regularly ss. per week and solicitor's fee, JBI Is., such being the order of the Court. Alice Barlow w«s granted a maintenance and separation order nnd 15s. a week towards the support'of herself and children against -her husband, Henry Rupert Barlow. On behalf of Mary Marslvment, Mr. P. \V. Jackson asked that the maintenance order .against Alfred James Marshment be increased to a larger sum than =£1 pel' week, as the wife had two children to support. :Mr. A. W. Blair, on- the husband's behalf, opposed the request, and after hearing evidence the Magistrate refused to vary the order. CIVIL CASE. The action of Sir Kenneth Douglas against John Babington, to recover 9s„ for costs in raising a loau of =£1200, ( which was adjourned from last week till*" Monday, was settled out of court, so Mr. P. W. Jackson, who. acted for defendant, informed Mr. L. G. Keid, S.M., when the ease was called on yesterday.