MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MINOR CASES A MODERATE LIST Mr, E. M. Page, S.M., presided over yesterday's session of the Magistrate's Court. Acting Sub-Inspector Emerson conducted tho cases for the police. • Thomas Griffiths and John Beachey were charged with having caused a breach of the peace. It ap.pearal from the police statement of the case that Griffiths was involved in. trouble with tho caretaker of a lavatory over his failure to pay twopence for a wash. He used bad language to the caretaker, and Beachey, overhearing tonie of what was said, intervened on tho caretaker's behalf. This led to an exchange "of blows. His Worship convicted both defendants. Griffiths he fined £2, and Beachey he discharged. A charge of having stolen i cwt. of coal was preferred against George Joseph Beasley. Defendant pleaded not guiity. The ' police evidence was to the effect that the defendant had been seen carrying the coal along, and when questioned about it had failed to.account satisfactorily for his possession of it. Beasley did not alter his plea, but after hearing the evidence against him he asked for a chance. He was fined .£5 for the theft., .The coal he had stolen was estimated to be worth Is. 6d. George Hyslop was charged with the theft of four' cups and saucers, valued at. 2s. 6d., the property of the U.S.S. Co. The police case rested upon the facts that Hyslop had been found in possession of the articles and that they wevv not his property,. Defendant was convicted and fined £b. The alternative to payment of the line .was fixed at one month's imprisonment. Joseph Donohue, articled seaman, was convicted of having deserted from s.s. Mania. He was ordered to pay the expenses his arrest {£i Bs.) and to return to his boat. Emma Crawford and John MArtney were convicted of having committed an indecent act at Kilbirme. They were each sentenced to a week's imprisonment. Robert .Collier was convicted of insobriety and was discharged. For breach of his prohibition order he was fined £3. .Michael Martin was also convicted of insobriety, and for breach of his prohibition order was fined £1. John O'Toole- was ordered, on pain of one month's imprisonment, to pay .£2l lis. 7d. arrears of maintenance at the rate of 10s. per week, and also to keep up payments under the order of 10s. per week. . On the complaint of Ruth Jollans, the Court granted a separation order against Frederick William Jollans, and ordered hiiff to pay maintenance at the rate ot £2 'per week, a '; A SERIOUS. CHARGE. \ Two charges of having assaulted very young .girls were preferred against William Bannerman Rogers, an inmate of Weraroa, who had been released on probation. Rogers was remanded on bail fall March