MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

... . '.. ':;■♦ POLICE CASES * THEFT FROM AN nOTEL I Mr. E. Page, V 5.M.,,: dealt with tho I. police cases at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. • Kitty Stewart, a young woman, pleaded guilty-to'a charge-of theft of a gold 'bracelet watch valued at £9, tho property, of Miss Amy M'Pnrlnnd. Accused was seen leaving the room Hint belonged to the owner qf the watch, but no notice was taken, as it was thought she was au employee. However, it was found that the watch had been stolen, and accused was arrested and remanded for a week. She then disappeared, and was subsequently arrested in Gisborne. Mr. E. K. Kirkcaldie, who appeared for accused, stated that she had been in the company of doubtful characters for eomo< time, and had also'been drinking. The girl was at. present serving a sentence of a month's imprisonment for am. other offence, and counsel suggested that any fresh sentence imposed should run concurrently with the present term. ' The Magistrate entered a conviction and ordered defendant to come up for sentence when called upon within three years. , OTHER CHARGES, A fine of £U> was inflicted rpon Arthur Sommerville, who was found guilty of assaulting Reginald Wynne.- The affair took place'in a lane off Willis Street on Monday night. Sommerville, for no apparent reason, attacked Wynne, dis- ' figuring his face and tearing his clothes. The,Magistrate'directed that half of the fine should bo paid to Wynne. Thomas Henry Weir appeared to answer charges of drunkenness, of assault upon a female unknown, and of indecent exposure in Arthur Street. On the . first two counts :he was convicted and discharged, and on the third charge he was sent to gaol for two months. A. young man named W. Roach was remanded to appear on March 17 to answer a^charge of theft of various articles of jewellery valued in-all at JI2, the'property of-Winifred O'Hallornn,. of Lower Hutt. For-refusing to quit the .premises of the Midland Hotel when ordered to do so, Mark' Weber was fined £3. On- a charge of drunkenness he was fined ss. CIVIL~BUSiNESS CLAIM'AND COUNTER-CLAIM. Edith Saunders, of Lower Hutt, sued John Sydner Saunders, of the Mansions Hotel, ; . Ghuznce Street, for posssssion of an axiriinster carpet and two eiderdown quilts, valued at .£35. Defendant counterclaimed for the recovery of certain ar-

tides and. also the amount of an account which he had paid on behnlf of the plaintiff! ' The- parties were husband and wife, hut had separated. . . . After htarinj: evidence, the Magistrate (Mr. W. G.' Biddell, S.M.) gave judgment for plaintiff oh-'the claim for .£23 and costs, 'and'judgment for defendant on the counter-claim, for £$ 15s. in .regard to the account settled 'by defendant; the Magistrate remarked that although the parties were : living apart defendant was responsible ..for; supplying his'wife with 'n'ecessary clothing, and could not'therefore • claim for recovery of the money paid/Mr.P.'W. Jackson anpeared'for plaintiff, and Mr.' H. E. O'Leary for defendant- •'•..*■.'.•.. , A DISPUTED ACCOUNT.. . Picot Bros.; produce merchants, proceeded against Ay 11. Symomls, butcher and small goods purveyor, claiming ,£SB is. Id., being balanco of account for goods supplied.'" Defendant, according to plaintiff, controlled two shops, one in Courtenay Place and-'one in Eiddiford Street. For the defence, it was submitted that Symonds did not own the Newtown- shop, but that thovpremises had. been taken over-, by orie'Ben -Ziman,; who had. since Jefi -Wellington. "■'Defendant ; contended' that Ziihan was responsible-for' the account.' :. i ".;■;, ■ At this stage the hearing was adjourned till-Thursday next. - . Mr. ,-0. C. Mazengarb. appeared for plaintiffs and Mr. Kennedy for defendant. JUDGMENT BY \DBFAULT. : Mr. Riddell gave judgment for plaintiff by default in the following undc-. fended, ease's':—New: Zealand' Acetylene and Hardware Ltd. v.- E. C. Pearson, .65 (Is.- Sd.,'costs £1 3s. lid.; Gotlieb' vi -C.-.A.' Stevenson', £i -155., costs 10s. ' •.'. '■ TENEMENT CASES. t John' Evans is' to give up possession of a 'tenement to Timothy Moynihan by (March 24, and to pay a'cerued rent and costs amounting to .£7 9s. 6d. - George'Basken, is to give up possession of ' a house, owned by Margaret Green and''John'and Kate Moye, and to pay IBs.- fid costs. '. '....-,. Henry Lancely was ordered to jive up possession of the. hou.se he occupied at present to Thomas Willason by April 21, and must puv accrued rent and costs totalling £U 6s.

BY-LAW CASES Messrs. E. D, ; Hanlon and J. Salek, J:P.'!=. dealt with the by-law cases. William Imrie was fined ss. and costs 7b. for attempting to board, a moving trnm. William George Scoch, driver _of a G.P.O. motor van,. wns found guilty of travelling'along Customhouse-Quay at a speed of a little over 20 miles an hour. He was-Jined £1 and costs 7s. Herbert Stanbridge,. who drove a motor lorry at an excessive speed, round a corner at the intersection of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place, was fined 40s. and costs 7s. Major Burton, who drove, a vehicle on the-wrong ■dido of Kent Terrace, was fined. 20s. and costs 13s.' William Ernest lintz, who failed to keep his poultry .enclosed in a pen, wns fined ss. and costs 7s. Francis Featherston Newman was fu ed £3 and . costs • {fit impeding the Irain traffic 'in Courtenay Place. Evidence wns Riven to.'the : effect that defendant dreve his i enr slowly in front of a tram ard maintained his position in-spite of >ereistent sdnnding of the 'gong. Sharp and Hahor, fruiterers, were fined £1 and Costs for htvJxpr rotten fruit in cases in their yard, .''hey had been previously warned to obtain propel rubbish bins; For driving his motor-car past n stationary' trhmear 'at what was described as a dangerous speed, Adam Piatt Vhitehead was fined .CI and costs 17s. - Frederick Thomas' and Albert Edward Thomas were'each fined ss. and costs ! e. for keeping unregistered' dogs. On a ohar?o' of 'trrnzMi? li horse on the Island-Bay Parade, John Stwl M'Nieol was fined ss. and costs 7s. For leaving his handcart in Kent Terrace at nieht without a light, »; Hindu named Sookha Pema wan fined. George Willinm Murray Farkes, who failed to observe-the rule of Hie road when turning' into Cuba, Street on his motor cycle, was fined 4fls. and costs 7s. For a similar offence, .Tohn A. Wilkinson wns fined a similar amount,