MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CASES. $ T, J- 5.M,.,. presided' at • Mafistrate s Court .■ .vestevdav and cases -! 16 1,01i , C8 " IKI nftistenanco

Victor Kegi'nald Hhslem/'a . labourer, . ch i»:g«l with.assaulting some, pereon unknown o'n baturdav. .last. JJr'-H p O Leary appeuiW.Tor.the'defendant, who pleaded not guilty.; ••Qonstftble.Holding staled that - while standing near the White Swan Hotel,' in Üba Street,. 'oii'/.S'aturday, hp saw..four soldiers and a civilian standing on -the opposite side of the road, near Garrett Street. The conslable saw 1-laslem walk up to the group-and strike tlio. civilian, who was knocked down. There was apparently, no .provocation given. Witness followed defendant and arrested him. The man was under the influence of liquor, but not druiik.' Haslein said he did not strike the .man, but pushed him; . The four soldiers took -of the civilian, anu Constable.-Gohling w : as unable to discover his identify. HnSteiii,. in giving evidence, said the man h'nd been pesterii% him for money, and when refused used insulting language. When the mail put his hand on him Haslern. pushed, him .and he fell I down. '" |

•.The rccordeil a : oonviction and imposed a fine of 20s. ■ John .Marshnll, an, able.-ljodied . man, who, accordingto.-.- the police, will-.not work, on Saturday went to the-police station- and said l\o had- no placo .to sleep in, and nothing 'o oat. tin Was charged yesterday with being an incorrigible. rogue, in that ho posted insufficient lawful menus of ■'support. • He had been previously convicted of -being a rogue and vagabond.. The iscn- ■ teneed to eighteen months'.imprisonment. For behaving in a disorderly manner in Cuba-Street while drunk, Vraneis "William Cha])inan was fined <os., with flirt option nf seven "days' imprifonmeut . Norman "Bennett was charged with being found drunk, al:-o with using nbfcene language. Defendant was discovered silting on the doorstep of the J.ninswick Hotel, and while being taken to the Mount Cook Station he used the obscene language. It turned mil. that Bennett was an epileptic subject and had taken drink. While in the cells he had fo receive, medical'attention. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sontenco when railed-upon on each charge; he was also ordcrGd.to pay 21s. medical expenses,'and a prohibition order was issued against him, to be in foreo for twelve mouths, throughout the Dominion. For insobriety, Henry James Simmonds, against whom thcro were two previous convictions, was fined . c l's, with tho alternative of fourteen ■ .days' 'imprisonment. Two first offenders were each fined 205., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and two others were lined 10s. each, with •■tlio optiou . of twenty-four hours'" impr.isonmenc. A fine of ids., in default fourteen days' imprisonment, was imjioscd on Victor Kreeman Cook for failing to notify the Government Statistician of change of abode. MAINTENANCE CASKS. Milton Georgo C. ..Oman, who was in arrears with his maintenance payments to tho amount of .ill, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, no warrant lo issue unless applied for by complainant, and ho was further ordered lo pay h's. costs. William Scanlon, whose arrears totalled ,£(> 155., wns sentenced to a month's imprisonment, no warrant lo issue unless applied for by coinp'-iinant. Ho was also ordered to pay l'.N. costs. James Daniel Wilson, whose arrears lotajld .£s.lis., was sentenced to a" month's imprisonment, no warrant lo issue unless applied for by complainant. In the case of Eileen Moyna Clark against Frank Lawrence Clark, an application for separation and maintenance, heard soino time ago, the Magistrate in a lengthy reserved judgment remarked that to -oblige complainant to further live with tho defendant would bo tanta-mount'lo-qualifying both spouses for a mental hospital. Separation was granted, maintenance was fixed at .El per week, and defendant was ordered to pay .£5 Ills, past: maintenance and costs. Securilv for. appeal was fixed at t fc'2a. Mr. IJ. J' 1 ". O'l.earvappeared for complainant: and Mr. l'., J.ackfon fur defendant.