MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2985, 24 January 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CONCERNING. A REGISTERED LETTER. ' Tlio caso was. resumed in which Annio Elizsiboth Reid was charged with false, pretences. The prosecution was conducted by Detective-Sergeant Cox, and .Mi*. H. F. O'Leary defended. The police alleged that, on November 3 last accused, by representing herself to be the addressee of a registered letter containing £5. obtained delivery of the missive. The real addressee was the wife of a Customs officer,, who was stationed at Lyttclton. At the previous hearing the postal official' concerned stated that slio believed tho accused to be the woman who had received tho letter. Other evidence regarding handwriting was also called. Yesterday. Edward Fitzherbert, a coloured man, gavp evidenco that he employed accused as his housekeeper. Ho made a statement to tlio Court purporting_ to show that accused could not have visited the Post Office at; the.timo in question, as sho.had been in his company both in tho afternoon and in tho evening. His Worship held that a prima facie case Jiad been niado out, and committed accuscd for trial in the Supremo Court. . . . POLICE CASES. Mr.-.. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided over the polico business at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. _ A young woman named Phyllis Mollis, who had taken poison in CubaStreet 011 December 30 last, pleaded guilty to a chargo of attempting to commit suicide. She was ordered to ho detained in tlio Sajvation Army Home for twclvo months. Hilda Koberstein, another young woman, charged with attempting to take lier own lifo, was similarly doalt with. Agnes Morco'r, a middle-aged woman, who; as a result of an attack o£ neuritis. arid a slight addiction to drink, liad also attempted to do away with herself, was convicted, and ordered to coino up for sentcncc > when called upon. A prohibition order was issued against her. John Henry AVilliam Coyle, a returned soldier, was fined £5 for assaulting a car conductor named Thomas Glavin. Jaines Stewart Leckie, a lad of seventeen, was remanded till to-day 011 a chargo of stealing a tin of coffee and a tin of jam, valued at ss. "Id. Bail was allowed. Thomas Wilson was charged with uttering a cheque which he knew to bp, forged. He was remanded till January.. 31, bail being allowed in the amount of £75, with ono surety of £75, George Gallate appeared on a chargo of failing to provide, for his illegitimate child. He was remanded till Friday. Bail was lixed at £200, or two sureties of £100 each. CIVIL CASKS. Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., presided over tho civil business in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. Judgment; by default of defendants was given for plaintiffs in tho following civil cases: —Jnhu Heyworth v. J. T. Williams, £2 6s. 6d.. and costs 145.; William Hcnr.v Reid v. Andrew Muiiro, 3s. costs: Harry Archibald. Do Lautour v. Frederick Wolff, £5 13s. od., costs £1 3s. 6d. ; Drivers' Union v. Ben Dalley, 17s. 6d„ costs !)s.; Spencer George Radford v. Vine Blacklidge. £4 10s., costs 125.; Bannatyno and Hunter v. H. Bodley, £25 3s. dd., costs £2 l')s.; Georgo and Kersloy. Ltd.. v. Wi'lia.m Warden Wills, £3.Ms. od.. costs lis. j'Laory and Co.. Ltd.-, v. T. Nowiand, £7 13s. fid., and £1 3s. Gd.; Laory and Co., Ltd., v. Jhiug Leo, Ss. costs. Judgment summons cases were dealt with as followsß. E. Howell was or-

dered to pay Bray Bros. £1 19s. Id. by March 23, in default seven days in gaol; Ruruanga Maguki was ordered, to pay Bunny and Ayson £24 Bs. Gd. in instalments of £3 per month, in default fourteen days in gaol.