MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 181, 20 April 1918, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND BY-LAW CASKS.

Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrates Court yesterday and dealt with the police and by-law cases. Thomas O'Halloran was charged with being found drunk in Cuba. Street, also with using obscene language. The defendant, it -was stated in evidence, was a deserter from the military forces, and when accosted he admitted that he had deserted and the obscene language was used in connection therewith and had reference to the war and going to the front. He -\yas sentenced to t'hreo months' imprisonment for uiakinsr use of obscene and for being drunk he was convicted and discharged.

For insobriety John Knox, asainst whom there woie two previous convictions, was fined >E5 in default U dajV imprisonment, and two first offenders were each fined 10s.. with tho alternative of serving twenty-four hours iu gaol. William Buchan Barlow, who appeared in uniform, pleaded guilty to a charge of teceiving from ('lie Paino and others, divers sums of money amounting to -CI Ss. (id., on ;erm6 requiring him to account for same to Thomson, Lewis and Co., and did fraudulently omit to account for fame or pay the same. He was remanded to April 26, and in the meantime he is to be handed over to ilie military authorities. Louis Churles Iloeft, who was described as ii nativo of Tonga, his father being a Gorman, was charged with failing to register under the Aliens Act. The defendant explained that he could not nod English and there was no one to pxplain to him what lie hnd to do. Hβ erred in ignorance. 'J ne nintfiatratc believed tho defendant and convicted and discharged him. BY-LAW CASE?. John Hobert Biirley and John Fredcrick Whitman, for having insufficient lights on their vehicles, were ench lined 10s., with costs. For riding a motor-cycle ever a crossin? at an excessive speed Stanley .Mercer Stone was lined 10s. and costs. For having an unregistered dog in his possession Hugh Donald M'Carthy was lined 10s., nnd costs 17s Gd. Frederick Taylor was fined 10s. ami costs for allowing .i horse to wander. ■\ Territorial named Bruce Anderson was fined ,£3 and costs, in default 21 dnys' military detention for lailiug to attend drill.