MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3104, 7 June 1917, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Air. L. G. Rcid, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of the. Magistrate's Court. Marion M'Xaughlin, aged 74, was charged with being an idle, and disorderly person, having insufficient lawful means of support. It seemed that the old woman had been an inmate of the Home for tho Aged and Needy, but her conduct had mado it impossible for tho authorities to keep her thero any longer. Sho was expelled, and 'a policoman later found her wandering in the street, pushing a chair with her few belongings on it. Accused, in Court, mado a very pathetic figure, white-haired and decrepit. His Worship decided to remand her for a week, bo that arrangements might be mado for her future. Two policemen carried her away in a chair. John Turner, a youth, was charged with stealing an electric torch from Raymond Irving, and with assaulting Irving, and two others, named respectively John Sweeney and Henry Marshall. Tho evidence for the prosecution was that Turner met in Toranaki Street tho three boys mentioned, an<i asked for a loan of Irving's torch. Irving handed it over, and Turner spirited it away. When asked to return it, ho punched tho three lads in tlio sto&ach, but gave them no other satisfaction. Accused was convicted on all tho charges, and was fined 40s, for tho theft. Albert Vance Stoward, charged with . keeping a common gaming-house, and two others charged with being found without lawful excuse in a common gam-ing-house, were remanded till 2.15 p.m. on Friday next. Accused were allowed the same bail as that on which the police previously released them. Bryda Shcehan was fined 20s. for insobriety. A charge against George Richards of stealing a piano was withdrawn.