MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2849, 14 August 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTER I.VGX

Saturday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court ivas presided over by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.,'wiio dealt with- tho following oases:— Edward Foreman, the young man who'-"- was, arrested on Friday shortly after leaving the Supreme Court, appeared to answer a. charge of having broken, into tile residence of Roy Eagar, 66 Oriental Bay, and stolon Jewellery valued at £96.

Mr;'. T. M. Wilford, who appeared for accused, asked for a remand, and applied for bail. Inspector Hendry opposed the application, and stated that a quantity oi the stolen proporty had n,ot yet been recovered. i

. Finally, the Magistrate consented tn grant a remand lor" a week, and bail was fixed in accused's own bond 'of £150 .ami one surety of £150, or two of £75 each.

OTHER CASES

Dorothy Orr Aubrey, .lohn M'Laughlin, and James Cocker, for insobriety, were each fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Joseph' Morlev, who appeared on remand, to answer a charge of having been helplessly drunk in Cambridge Terrace, was ordered to pay 17s. 6d. medical expenses. For having committed. a grossly indecent act in Customhouse Quay, John Henderson was fined £3, in default fourteen days' detention. He was formally convicted for drunkenness.

A soldier, who gave his name as Gavin Brown, was lined 40s. for using obscene language; default, fourteen days in gaol. Brown was formally convicted'of drunkenness.

Jorfn Henry Sairs appeared to answer a charge of resisting the police and having 'assaulted Police-Sergeant Cruicksliank and - Constable Sawyer. The affair took place when Sairs was .being arrested for insobriety- Accused was formally convicted on the chargo of resisting. On each charge of assault he was fined 405., in default seven clays' -detention on each charge! . Arthur Thompson, alias Wilson, appeared to answer a ebargc of tho theft of 10s. from Thomas Hitchen. In'outlining tho case for tho prosecution, .Inspector Hendrey said that it was a .ratner unusual theft. Accused had met Hitchen in a hotel bar, and asked him for the price of a meal. Hitchen had treated Thompson to a drink, and flad also given him what he had taken to ho sixpence, but which happened to bo half-a-sovereign. Accused had denied having tho half-sovereign, but an investigation by Detective Andrews resulted ill its disroyery in the lining of his coat. As Thompson had previous convictions against him the Magistrate fined him Ms.; in default seven days' imprisonment,

Martin C'oogan was charged with being au idle and disorderly _ person. Coogan. it wis stated, is an inmate of tlie Ohiio Home, but has a habit of becoming independent when ho receives his military pension, and getting out of bounds. When tho pension is exhausted he periodically falls into the hands' of the police, who are compelled to take tlio old man into custody for iiis own good. The Magistrate gave Coogan another chance to re-enter tho home, failing which lie will be placed in prison. -