MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 23 September 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TROUBLE BETWEEN SAILORS,

A seaman named Jose Xayarra was charged before Air. *'- V. Frazer, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday with having assaulted afellow sailor named Joseph Alsin, in Lambton Quay, on Friday evening. It appeared that accused was somewhat under the influence of liquor, and that when Alsin tried to persuade Navarra to return to the ship to which they belonged accused struck him a blow. Constable Dudding happened to be standing nearby, and he promptly took Navarra into custody. His Worship treated the case as ono of a breach of the peace, and fined accused 10s., in default 48 hours imprisonment. James "Wallace, a young man, employed as a driver, pleaded guilty to stealing an overcoat, valued! fit £3 10s., belonging to-Ralph Manning. The coat was stolen from a scat "t Newtown Park on Friday, and as a result of inquiries Constable Barnes discovered it concealed in a- nosebag on accused's cart. Accused, who is 23 years of age, could give no reasonable explanation as to why he took the garment, hut asked for'leniency for tho sake of his wife and child. , His AVorship decided to give the man a chance, and admitted him to probation for a term of twelve months. For insobriety Herbert Joseph Seymour Motford was ordered to bn handed over to the military authorities, and Mary Patterson, alias Turton. was fined £1, in default 72 hours' imprison-nieri-t.