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MAGISTRATE'S COURT

"ROUGH HOUSE" DECLARED

RETURNED SOLDIERS IN TROUBLE

A disturbance in 'Mple.worth Street on Jfondav evening resulted in the appearnnco of two returnwl soldiers, named Walter James Ifvnn and Percy James Ryan, before Mr. V. V.;Prazer, S.M., at. tlio Magistrate's Court yesterday. According to Aiding Sub-Inspector Emerson, the defendants' descended upon the premises of Yee Hung's laundry at 8S Molesworth Street ■ and*, declared a "rough house." Roth , : accused pleaded guilty to charges of having broken in three pane", <of glass valued at "J!5 !>s., damaging an electric globe valued at Ms. ful., 'and'two'-dozen lettuces valued at 55,, and of having stolen between them four packets of cigarettes valued,nt 2s. Sd. Shortly after 8 p.m. the defendants, who were not relatives, called in at Yoo Hung's laundry, and one of them asked for some collars.' The Chinaman said that'there were no collars for defendants, whereupon'one of the defendants struck. Hip Chinaman on tho bead. Tho pair then went outside, where one of thorn mit his fool: through a window of the laundrv. The accused then visited Chung' Wall's shop at 8:1 Molesworth Street, where thev demanded two packets of cigarettes. They were supplied, but defendants refused payment. They next proceeded to throw a eounle of dozen lettuces about the sliop. The nrcnuscu of Sun Young Ivee at 101 Molesworth Street were next. visited, and hero <!?•■ ferdnnts obtained more cheap cigarettes, and fllso proceeded to wreck the shop by I brewing vegetables about, breaking an electric light globe, and smashing two panes of glnss Willi - stones. Tho shop was reduced to a state of chaos. Mr. 11, .F. O'Leary, who npprai»>d fotthe defendants, explained that both defendants had only returned from the front a fortnight weviouslv after three years' active service. Their extremely high spirits and tho hour of the day 1.0 doubt accounted for their boisterous behaviour.

JTis Worship remarked • (hat 7>p bad' seen some of the damage, and said thatit was a. great pity that hotelkeepers or their servants served liquor to 'person 1 ' alreadv under the influenza of drink. A good deal of the blame rested with the person who bad sunnlied defendants with ■their last drinks. F,noh defendant would b° convicted and .ordered In nay bis ?hnm of the damage done and costs.

TWO YF.ATW ln-TOTiMATIVE DETENTION. A sentence cf two vears' reformative detention was imposed on Lilian Juke« on k charge deeminc hoe to be n iwnc and a vagabond, which clinic slif> strenuously denied. She admitted .having b°an fou'id drunk during the eii'Toncy of l"V prohibition order, and having wilfnllv dam nged a window valued at ~£l.,nnd nn account.honk, a'«i valued »t -CI, tie prnpertv of Wing Lin. On the?" two charges she was convicted and <Ijbrlinrccd. and nn (ho major charge the Magistrate mimi'Ved that tlie iminnn was not rri'iiin-'). but was apparently >">t alwavs responsible, fc her actions. TT e considered that in the interests of lie ■woman sh" should undergo iv* more than hvo years' reformative detention.

INSOBRIETY. ■ George" Snillo was fined ids, for drunkenness, and Samuel Martin Snares, similarly' charged, was convicted and discharged, but was fined ,£' on a chargeof bavin" hmk"n his nrnlubition order. TV a ■=iniiln<- breach Felix Grant was finnd .£2. and for drunkenness wes convicted end discharged. Thomas Lowy. who-had been previously convicted for drunkenness 0" no' fewer than «ix occasions durinc the past six months. < r a<i ordered fc- 'v detained i" the IMo Rna Inr'-rintes' Home for twelve moot'* ."" a charge of breaking his nrohihitiin order v On charges of drunkenness end with usin" obscene language he was convicted and discharged.

- --■ . , BY-LA-W CASES. Percv Woilerman'was fined 10«. a"d ofl=ts lis. for cveling aloni' a. footpath'.-! or ' a similar pffen v »'James Fatten was fined ss. and costs 14s. , . : ' ' -V-fino of £X with cnsls ?.Is.,.was imposed on Thomas Patrick Murpbv. who was convicted on a charge of driviw' n lwrnr-cni' without n license; and A'ClMe Nis-htingale was fined M and 7s. costs tor. employing an unlicensed motor-eijr driver. • , „. , , For elkwing stock to \vrvnd»!\ John Tan- was fined lfl=. and 7s. costs,, and Nornh Tlvnn for a like offence vnfl fir»d ss..and 7s. costs. Frank Winton was fined .£? and e<Wi. Y>* for having overridden tho-tram sec tion from Fataitni to Conrtenav F ace without paving his fare. The defendant denied havingseommittwl Hip offence, but His Worship wits satisfied with the evidence of the conductor nnd an inspe.itor. wli'.i .stated that they had watched, defendant ('ii several occasions. _ . On charges of failing to register. nVs, Vino Lmw was convicted end o«c!>or«ed; William E. "illai'.. John C Maule. and Desmond Hynn. Welch were r/invictril and ordered" to p"y 7s. instsj ' Thomas L. Sha'cl-lefo'rd was fined 10s. > m 7s. costs; and William King was fined ss. an' 7s. casts. ■ George 1 llenrv Jackson was nnert .VI and costs 7s. for using a hose to water his garden without having a ingter attached to the. water supply. On a charge of leaving a hose unattended, Jackson was.convicted and discharged. ■ CIVIL BUSINESS. Mr V. " V. Frnzer, S.M., gnve jud'-ment for plaintiff by default in tho I following undefended civil eases: Lnzarns 1 Wolfo Halkind v. Frank and May Lnngmnid, £M Gs. .fid., costs Ji is. j Reginald Collins, Ltd.-, v. Neil, Johnson, 10s., cosb £1 15s. Gd.; W. J. Gaudmand Son v. A. "White, JEI 13s. 3d,, costs 125.; Ivenneth Carroll Morpeth v. Mrs. Luff. J3> Bs.; costs os. Oil.; Lazarus Wolfe "Bnlkind v. Ade'le Tauwhare sWI, costs 17a.; John (Houston v. Wilhnm I. I tting £2 2s. 7d., costs only; Public Trustee (as committee of the estate of William Bed) v. 11. Palmer, XS9 JS«.. cost!. «C 3 35.; Public Trustee v. Androw Casev, MO 12«. fid., costs'.£s! 145.; i 5.7,. Eidiw? Co., Ltd., v. Mrs. C. Wallace, ,£7~145., costs .CI 3s. 6d.; D.-Milligan v. Edmund Porter. JE9 25.. costs £1 3s. Gd.; B. Norton and Co. v. W. C. B. Gnrdencr, ,£7 18s. Gd.. costs .C 1 3s. Gd.: Public Trustee v. Thomas Nevvell. JBI9 ss. W., costs £\ lis. Gd.; John Chambers ami Son, Ltd.. v. J. B. Beul. £lt 135., costs 61 10s (id.; Townsend and Co. v. Jonas Alonza Kinsbeer, ..€l2, costs .£1 10s. Gd.;' Paints and Deeoriitors' Union v. Walter Dodd, Bs. Gd., costs 55.; S. .T. y--1,. E. Bench. .413 Ws., costs JH 4s.; I.d.i iioilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Soc:etv v. William Finlnyson, lGs., costs 5?. i II 'Baldwin and J. Mitchell (assigneea in'tho estate of G. M.. Williams) v. .Kobert Dunstnll, .£5 4i. 3d., costs £\ u s. •Bd ; enme v, Ernest Buckland, ss. .costs onlv; T. G. K- Burgess v. Frederick Marsh. .W 53., coala.liU: AM Lewis y. Mrs Johana Jepsou, : £l7 13s Gd., casts ,£i 10s. Gd.; H. Baldwin and J. MM (assignees 11 tho estate :of G. 51. W 1in„ s v J. A. Crighton, ,£5 2s. lid.* „st il3s. d.; Futon and Co. v Alfred Kcan, « Gs. !kl„ costs £2 145.;. H. Bad1' mil J. Mitchell assignees in tho osrate (I- M. Williams) v. William S. itck £5 10s. od.. costs £\ 3s. Gd.,- Mira- „ rilorn4 Council v Ada Mary Jsber,'nnd £ 1 °s. Hd. costs .£1 Is.; Public Trustee as committee of the estate of l/'wf v. Robert Stevens, £ . c„st".£l lfls. (Id.: Smith mid Snuli, Ltd. ~ William R. Johns, 155., costs 55,; John Wood v.J. A. Capper, jCG 1.55., costs * C lli° S n 'iudgmenf. summmw case Alfred K n was ordered to pay . . 11 Mac wa '„ .1 Co.. Ltd.. .£lO «<• 7d. by April ,(l, 111 ,'kfaull 10 days' iuiprisonment. T F 1 do Ernest? and Co.. motor on'.'iuee'rs. proceeded against Bert Cain,,m la-;i-drivei', lo recover n sum ol ,U Vl I0d„ being the balance of moneys L for work done iu repairing de end-.,"•,,notnr-car. Tho defence was.that Ihe vol-k was unsatisfactory. A,iter hearing vi lenee Bis Worship gave judgment for !1- . (f (>'r ! he full 'n»i°»"' l,nil ri,shsv". a E Anderson appeared lor the '•liiiintin". and defendant conducted his ''7m t'v'cii«e in which .-lohiis tiros., huiljl- '.„.. ~f Wallingto"- prqeended against V. (' I'utter. ikwil denier, of Agahanr.inga, ' ;; L cover the sum' of JB3O Ita. in roped ~ contract for the erection of a wharo ,',' '|. on(1 Hay, iudginent was given, for 1 i.hii lift for tho amount claimed, logollicr

uith costs. The defendant counterclaimed for ..Ell, being lose of rent from January 1, 191S, to .April 8, 1019, but was nonsuited. Costs 'were allowed against defendnnt. Mr. 11. K. Anderson ropresonteii plaintiff, and Mr. G. 11. Gill-the defendant.

AVilliHin Hall, carrier, proceeded against F. Lagan for the recovery of .C 2 ss. for the cartage of furniture from Newto,vn and the oily to Kelburn. Tho limb charged for was six hours at tho rate of 7s. (id. per hour. Plaintiff bad rendered an account in the first instance for ■£) Ids., but defendant offered biiu £1, which plaintiff refused. After hearing tho evldenco of both parties His Worsbip gave judgment.for plaintiff for .El 178.-Gd. and costs 7s. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. J.- Scott for the ' defendant.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 2

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MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 2

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