MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3150, 31 July 1917, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES,

At tie Magistrate's Court yesterday, lh: S B JTCarthy, S.M., was <m tho Uench. For wilfully committing a. grossly indecent act in Marion Street, Mien Hawthorne was sentenced to a, year's impnsonJoseph Dossenbach and Frederick A. 0. Kingan, convicted o£ : drunkenness, were oach iinod 1 Ws., in default seven days imprisonment; Michael Oolensou was lined Ms., with tho option of seven days' imprisonment; and Peter M'Oarron, against whom there were several previous convictions, was sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment. James Hands, a soldier, who was convicted of drunkenness, was ordered to be handed over to the military authorities, and John S. Priest was lined' Ms., in Oefault 48 hours' imprisonment. Four first offenders wore .dealt with in the usual lenient manner.'

3UINTENAXCE OASES. . Maintenance cases Tvere, dealt with as follow: —Thomas Q. Dovory, whose arrears amounted to 12s. 6d., was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, the warrant not to be 'issued uutU applied for by complainant; ChuJles Edward King, whoso arrears "amounted to £2 10s., was similarly dealt with; John Skipper, whose arrears totalled £19 16a., was sentonc«l to thrco months'' imprisonment, warrant not to be issued until applied for by complainant; William Slattory paid into Court the amount of his arrears, £6, hut counsel for complainant asked that the man should be punished in some way, for, although well ablo to pay the amount of the mainten'anoe, he invariably waited until a summons was issued, beforo paying l , thereby causing- the complainant unnecessary oxpease. Slattery was fined £2 and costs, in defauJfc fourteen days' imprisonment.

John Willfam Blair and Stanley Griffiths were each ordered to pn-y ss. per week 'maintenance, and the maintenance order mado against John Galbrc'tli was cancelled, as he -was unable to work, and his mind, was unbalanced. ■

Mr. P. W. Jackson made application for the rehearing, of ■» case against a juvenile who T?as committed to an industrial home on tho ground, that h<v was ■ not under control. Mr. Jackson explained that the boy wfts eeren years of age, and thoroughly under the control of his parents, who. although presont at his trial, did not make any nrotost, because they knew nothinf of Ooiirt procedure. The application for a relw&ring was granted.