MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

; POLICE CASES. Mr. L. G. Eeid, S.M/., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Timothy Francis Maloney was remanded to appear later on a charge of having, hy .means of a forged receipt, obtained from the Postmaster at Spring Creek a registered letter containing a money order for ,£lO 12s. Patrick Byan, charged with bein; unlawfully on premises by night, was con-victed-and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Ho was also ordered to. be prohibited from obtaining liquor. Two charges against John Tangney of selling liquor to a person under 21 .rears 'of age, and knowingly sc-lling liquor in respect of which an offence under the War Regulations had been committed, were adjourned for a week. Thomas William Harris, residing in a No-License district, was convicted of obtaining liquor without notifying the vendor that ho was a resident in such district. He was fined '10s., Default of payment was fixed at seven days' imprisonment. William Ham was remained for a week 6n a charge of loitering in Mercer Street for the purpose of betting. Frederick O'Driy, a prohibited person, convicted of entering licensed premises, was lined '105.,.' with the alternative of 1-1 days' imprisonment. Mrs. Bowden was convicted of being the owner of a dog that attacked one Jean Jackson, "endangering life and limb." She was ordered to pay costs.

BY-LAW CASES. . For using Xor gardening purposes water which had not passed through a meter, Alexander Gowans was ordered to pay costs, 7s. Benjamin Cooper was liued 10s. and ' costs for being in charge of ail insuffi-ciently-lighted vehicle. For like offences Marcus Gordon and AYillinm Stnnden were respectively fined 55., and ordered to pay costs 7s. Louis Banifield, who. had left a motorcar unattended in the street for more than ten minutes, was ordered to pay costs 7s. For dangerous driving, David Mason was fined -10s. and costs. Failure to stop a motor-car when requested by a constable to do so led to John Foley being fined 55., with costs. George Hartley, for riding a motor cycle that' had no number, was fined ss. and costs. Frank Kettlewell, for allowing a horse to wander at large, was fined 2s. Od. and costs, while John Itussell Physick, for a similar offence, was ordered to pay costs 7s. .

OTHER CASES. A. Dimdore was convicted of selling a pair of children's shoes cardboard in the soles without milking a statement of the material of whif;h the soles were made. He was fined 205., with costs 7s. Jane Siegel was convicted' of having during three months employed a girl under the ago of 1G years, without holding a certificate as to the girl's fitness. She was further convicted of having

during n month failed lo keep in any form a wages and overtime buok. A fine of 55.. ivit'i is. costs, was imposed on each charge. For failing 10 attend drill J. Whitting. ton was fined 10s., ai)d costs 7s. The alternative was .fixed at seven days' military detention. L. Muir. who was convicted of cruelly beating a li*:se in his charge, was fined 20s. and costs.