MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., was on tho Bench at tiro Magistrate's Court yesterday, and heard tho following cases: — "You are one of tlioso bullies who has got to bo taught a lesson," were the words addressed by the Magistrate to Charles Phillips Badger, when sentencing him to two months' imprisonment. Badger was charged _ with trespassing on his wife's premises' during the currency of a separation order, also ■with assaulting Reginald James Day and Jack Kenny. According to tho evidence, Hadger wont to - his wife's house, No. 8 Brook Street, a little after 11 o'clock on Boxing* Night, and knocked at the door, and, receiving no answer, went into an alleyway alongside of the house. Day, who was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Kenny, boarders at the house, on being told that there was a man in tho alleyway, went out, and asked the intruder what he was doing there, and was immediately knocked down and rendered senseless. Later, Kenny went out and tackled the man, and there was a free fight, rousing the neighbourhood. Tho police wore called in, and Badger jWas arrested. On the charges of assault Badger was convicted and discharged. Bartholomew Maboney, an ex-prize-fighter, with a long list of previous convictions, including seven for assault and several for breaches of the peace, was charged with assaulting W. J. Burman. The latter, with his wife and child, who had just arrived from Auckland, were walking along the Quay, when Mahoney, who was half drunk, lurched in between tJiem. Later, he endeavoured to obstruct their progress, and a fight ensued. Mnhoney was fined £5, with tho alternative of one month's imprisonment, and tho information against Burman, who was charged with fighting in the street, was dismissed. A fine of £5, with the option of undergoing fourteen davs' imprisonment, was imposed on William Leigh, employed by Barton's Circus, for assaulting Edward While, a. fireman. For insobriety four first offenders wero oach fined 10s., in default twentyfour hours' imprisonment. A soldier named Eugene Colloty, against whom there was a previous conviction, was ordered to be handed over to the military authorities. Robert Dixon Warden, charged with tho theft of jewellery at Christehurcli, was remanded to appear in the southern city on January 4. John Smith Wells was remanded to January 4, on a charge of deserting his wife in Now South Wales. r