MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 237, 1 July 1919, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

VARIETY OF CASES

Mr. F. V, I'razer, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court.

•Nora Nugent made her one hundred and sixty-first appearance and pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. The defendant said that she had been suffering from a cold and had been recommended to tako u little tea and brandy, and, uot being young and strong enough to stand it, siie succumbed to its influence. She would not have touched it- had it not been lor her cold, llis Worship: "Well, you know my prescription i'or such cases, li you looked at the napers .you would have seen that you 6hould go to bed when yeu take ! any intoxicant for a cold." The accused asked for another chance, and His .Worship fined her XI for the breach of her order and convicted and discharged her for drunkenness.. "Thank you, sir. May you never die," said the defendant as she left the box. A plea of guilty was entered by William Henry Darby when charged with assaulting George Edward Brown. Senior-Ser-geant Willis stated that the accused, who boarded, at Brown's house, missed a Jtj note on Saturday and challenged Brown, lhe complainant denied all knowledge of the missing note, whereupon the accused presented a revolver at Brown. The revolver was not loaded, although I the accused had. a box of fifty cartridges in his possession. The defendant was j employed oil the waterfront. Mr. it. Collins, who appeared lor the accused, tjaid that his client and a friend were going out pig-shooting on. Saturday, and prior to leaving he missed a <£5 note. He accused Brown of the thett, and w hen he denied it Darby produced the revolver solely with the idea of impressing Brown. The revolver was not loaded, and his client had really presented it in the heat of the ' moment. His orship said lie had no reason to doubt the defendant's explanation, but he could not look upon the offence lightly. Defendant would be convicted and. fined X'l and ordered to pay witness's expenses, 10s. Seven days were allowed in which to pay the fine. Jeremiah Patrick .'ivans was charged with the theft of a book of tickets valued at sixpence, the properly ol ilio Uovcnimont, and also with failing to account for a sum of 2s. 4d., collected by him, to the Government. On the application of Chief Detectivu Boddam the accused was remanited till July i. For drunkenness Donald M'Donald was convicted and discharged, and lor a breach of his prohibition order was fined .ii. One first-oliender for drunkenness was fined 10s., and another was convicted and discharged. Arthur Francis i*i array was ordered to pay 2s. 6d. per week towards the support of a child at present an inmate of an industrial school. For disobeying a- maintenance order, the arrears of wnicli amounted to J;36 f.s., Bertie 'Kaymond Keith Andrews was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended for three months conditionally on his keeping up the original payments under tho order -of -25s per week, He was also ordered to pay Jil Is. costs. In an affiliation ca6e Thomas Mcintosh was adjudged the father of an illegitimate ahild and wiy; ordered to pay maintenance at the rate of 10s. per week, past niaftifenance, and costs and expenses amounting to ,£lO 10s.