MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 104, 27 January 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES. Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided at the •Magistrate's Court-yesterday and dealt with the police cases. On Saturday last William de Blois, Tvhilo intoxicated, boarded a traulcar and when asked for his faro Tefused to pay. Constable M'Kinley, who happened to be near a tram-stop, was requested to remove the man.. De Blois struggled with the constable and resisted being taken to the lock-up. .Yesterday de Blois was convicted of insobriety, and fined 55., in default 24 hours' imprisonment; for resisting Constable M'Kinley, he was fined .£2, in default, seven days; and for refusing to pay his tram fare he wns fined a further .£2, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. An elderly man named David Douglas, who appeared to have an imaginary Rrievance ngnihst J. IS. Hulbert, wilfully damaged a window belonging to tho latter valued at .£3 Bs. He was con- • victed nnd fined £1. Frederick Archer and Edward Rogers, .who were engaged in a.fight in Tory 'Street on Saturday night, were each fined William Wallace, aged 72, had been wandering about the streets, homeless and moneyless, till the police found him Bleeping in a tramway shed, He was convicted of vagrancy and was ordered to come up for sentenco when called upon. The Magistrate sent him to the Ohiro Home.' A youth named Andrew Jensen wns sentenced to 12 months' reformative trcnlment, on being convicted of two charges of theft.. The lad stole a gold Ting and metal wristlet watch, valued at 375., from a fellow-boarder, and stolo a bicycle, valued at =£3, belonging to a waterside worker.

Convicted for tho fifth time of inFobnety, Thomas Mylett was fined ,£2, tho alternative being seven days' imprisonment.

Leslie George Fraser, charged with forging a P.O. Savings Bank withdrawal slip tor ,£3O, was, on tho application of Chief-Detective Ward, remanded to Wednesday.

•Philip Byrne, for whom Mr. H. F. O'l.eary appeared, was charged with betting in the Post Office- Hotel on December 2i). On the application of ChiefDetective Ward a remand was granted ' until Friday, and bail was allowed in the sum of ,Cl5O and one surety of .£l5O, or two of ,£75 each. Frederick Palette and John Xirkland Watt were further remanded until Wednesday on a charge of stealing a motorcar, the property of E. E. Ma bin. MAINTENANCE CASES. Maintenance cases were dealt with as follow: Arthur Oldham, whose arrears for maintenance of his wife and family totalled £102 .12s. Gd., was sentenced to two months- imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as 325. Gd ucr week is paid. y Jack Berg, whoso arrears totalled dJ22 103., was sentenced to one month' 3 imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as 30s. per week is paid. Defendant was also ordered to pay eoliciior s feo (215.). Wi Paid Smith was sentenced to one month s imprisonment, tho warrant to bo suspended so long as ho pnvs 375. Gd per reek. The amount of arrears wag £6 Ms. Defendant was also ordered to nav solicitor s fee (215.). ■ ' + ii cI i V 'noo lordon E(,sn - wlloSe ""wrs totalled .£32, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the wnrrant to be suspended m long as m. per week is paid. Tho defendant was also ordered to pay solicitor's fee (215.). William Joseph Fletcher was ordered to pay 20s per week towards the maintenVoZf m^m" 1 10s ' for ««e maintenanroofliis child. Mary Burnett applied for an order of separation from her husband. Alexander Burnett, a tailor, on (he grounds of persistent insobriety. Mr. G. w. Hellish appeared for Mrs. Rurnett. and A Dunn tor the defendant. After hearing the evidence of several witnesses the lHri„ f ni « tcd " order, but oh in? to the precarious health of 110 defendant did not make an order for the payment of maintenance