MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 300, 15 September 1919, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

At the Magistrate's Court on ; Saturday morning Mr.-E. Page,' S.M., presided, and deal with, the police casw. For..insobriety three first offenders who failed : to "appear were each fined 10a., the amount of, the bail, and another was fined'.ss., ,\in;.default twenty.-four houi's' imprisonment. <J J eter Brien, an elderly man, who pleaded guilty to' committing a grossly indecent act in Hill . Street, was fined ,£3 ; the. alternative being seven days' imprisonment. _. ■ ' ■ A remand to Wednesday .was granted in the qaso .of' Catherine Brett and Henry Richard Brett, who were charged that on August 22 they did. obtain from Alexander Lorrimor Wilson by falsely, representing that a piano which comX>lainalit purchased from them was their o'fift"property and. freo of any claim,, whereas ,£2O was owing on it to Laid'law. and' George, Ltd., Dunedin. 1 Each of "the''defendants was allowed bail in i'so : alid two sureties of <£25 each. . A plea of guilty was, returned by Charles Daniel Fisher to a charge'of having received 31s! on terms requiring him to pay same to Julia Keating, and traud- ' ulently omitted to do so, thereby committing theft.'-' Ho was remanded to Monday for and was granted bail in the sum of £aO. John-Henry was charged that on September 8. at Dnrfield, Canterbury, he did, forge the name of Alice Clinton to a cheque for £31 125., drawn on the New Zealand Farmors' Co-operative- Association of' Canterbury, Ltd., and did causo one Bdvrard Turtou to act upon it as'if it wero genuine. The accused was remanded to appear at Christcliureh on September 17.

JUVENILE COUET. A ten-year-old boy was brought before •Mr. E. Page, S.M., to answer a chargo Of having stolen £2- Senior-Sergeant iWadoi' who prosecuted, 6aid that. this was acaso of sudden temptation. Tho boy, went to get his coat in the room whfire lie was bodrding, and accidentally knocked anothor coat down, when _ a pocket wallet fell out of the coat. The bov picked up tlio wallet, investigated it and found it contained a roll of notefe. Ho spent £2 that ho abstracted on going to tho' pictures, in the purchase of ,an electrio torch, razors, and trips about tho town. Tho lad's grandmother said that she had provided for the boy since his father went to the war, and that she was willing, in view of the fact that the domestic affairs of the family were unhappy, to place' the boy in - a boarding school. The Magistrate adjourned the case for six months, during which perioii the lad. is to .remain under tho supervision of tho juvenile probation officer. A chargo against a little boy of breaking an eleotrlo light globo was dismissed. The parents wer? ordered to make good the damage, 7s. 6d. •