MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 64, 10 December 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND MAINfE.\Ax\CE CASES. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided, tit the Magistrate's ' Court yesterday, and dealt with the'police and maintenance c:uses. There was a big parade of inebriates, there being no fewer thaii fifteen first offenders, tour of whom were convicted and discharged, ten others who failed to appear had their bail, of 10s. each estreated, and the fifteenth was convicted and, ordered to. pay lis. Gd.. ucdieul expenses. '. '' .'. Wary Patterson,' for .. committing a breach of her prohibition .order, was fined £2, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment, .and', was convicted and discharged for drunkenness. ,: ' •lames Wallace ,ind Patrick Cuimingliani, against each of whom thero wero two previous convictions, were each fined 205., with the option of three days' imprisonment'. Robert i'ilcwqod, against whom there.was one previous conviction, was fined 10s., in default IS hours' imprisonment. ■'" ~ Daniel Keane, whom Inspector Marsack de.-eribed as an ''incorrigible dniiikard," was charged with committing a breach of his prohibition order, and also with being found drunk. Inspector M'a'rsack slated that the "; ian'had a very ■ long list of convictions for drunkehnvKs. Ho had spent a year at Koto Roa, biit nothing seamed to do him good. The Magistrate committed the accused to the Inebriates' Home at. Polo Hon for a period of twelve months. Edward Hugh Thew, for whom Sir. P. W. Jackson appeared, was charged with assaulting his wife, Ivy May 'Ihew. The fact-s revealed domestic troubles,- with possibilities of further ilevelomnents. The Magistrate characterised tho ~i.ssau.lt as it brutal one, and fined tho accused J2I, in default three months' imprisonment. Aji application on tho part of Mrs,

Thow for a separation order was ad ; journod for a week.

MAINTENANCE CASES,,On the'application of the : wife, a separation order was made against' James Ruddle on the grounds of habitual cruel-ty,-the complainant to havo custody : of the children, and to receive liuintenance at the rate' of DOs. per week. Joseph Martin Gillespie, Whose ni rears totalled ,C 8 Is. 2d., was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, tho nrrant to he suspended so long as 2s. Cd. per week is paid oft" the arrears.