MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 November 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

I A short siitinj of the Magistrate's M ' Court was held on Saturday morning, A j Mr. E. Page, ,S.M.,.'being on Wie Bench. I 1 Gilbert Pollock, who had been before " i tlie Court on five separate occasions dur- | j ing tlic past month for insobriety, again £ i made his appearance and was convicted I ' and fined 80s., in default three days' im--3 prif-onnient. J-. A taxi-driver named Noiinnn William I Cop?laiul pleaded suiltv to Ijoing drunk j I iviliile in charge of n niolior-ca , . , in Tara--1 ' naki Street. The evidence showed tl:<it 6 i the accused was seen in..Manners Street 5 j outside EvciybudyV Theatre in a niotorm cai' in a slate of drunkenness, and wu 1 later arrested Ijv Sergeant Edwards in I Tnrannki Slwet. The Magistrate obscrv- ; ed that it was a dangerous practice for i a man to be in charge of a motor-car I when in a stale of intoxication, especi- | ally in Hid streets of Wellington, or i similar large cities, where liboro was ' heavy traffic. Copciand wus lined .£5. i For insobriety, Charles -Wilkie, against whom there was one previous conviction, a. : and who hud been under medical trjats incut, was fined 10s. and ordered, to pay a 17s. (id. medical expenses. Four first,offenders were dealt with. j A lircma.il on the s.s. Itomurra named j James Hcni;y M'L'ann, iilradrd not suiily to a cliavge of having stolen a blanket valiiyd nt C 2. the properly of the Kew Zealand Government. According to the ! evidence, a Citeioins officer f,n\' the acj . cused leaving the Puecn's "Wharf with 'A ] somelihing bulky und'.y an oilskin coat 'Jj : he was uciiriny, and, linin* .suspicious, f j the a.eciii-cd was taken intii an office and { i the blank: , ! was found in his possession, i M'Cann staled that Hie blanket had ■ lnvn givpii to him by a soldier, mid that i■, he was taking it on shove lo lmvc it i i washed. ! i Chief Detective Boddam staled that the j ] police knew nothing about' the accused; i ; lie bore a good ehuwter on the vowel, i was a hard worker, nnd a well-behaved man. a ! M'Cann was convicted nnd sentenced Zt ( lo twenly-oiu! days' iinprisnnnipnt. ; A Fijian named George Dirkson, who 1 had pleaded guilty to sleiiling an over- ! coat valued nt Xh 155., the property of , Hope ]iro-., was hi ought up for fcii- \ tenco. The said 1-hat he had i learned that the Pensions Board had power to cancel the pension accused was receiving upon being convicted of an of- : fence. It was a case, however, in which in a term of imprisonment must be- iinposjj) ed, a.s the thefts of ov;rcoals were bcjjjj coming far 100 common. Diokson was ' sentenced lo a month's imprisonment, the Magistrate remarking that n>. the conclusion (if the term he could apply ior a pension again. I Martin M'JJnnough was remanded lo Wednesday on a charge of having assaulted Daniel Cotton .-o as lo cause him i actual bodily harm. I George l'arker M'Doiigall was reinandS\ I ed hi Wednesday on a charge of having a? stolen four rolls of calico valued at. Jt'i'l ajj I 3s. -Id., two (juiils value £!> Ids., and I J three pairs silk stockings, value .C 2 (k I ! Rd, the property of Geiiige and George. Ai i Buil was allowed in ,12011 and one surety Hi nf I"W1