MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 193, 11 May 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SENT TO PAKATOA. Tho proceedings, at the-jMagistrate's Court ycstciday wero presided over by Mr. E. Page, S.M. "I don't want' to go to Pakatoa—lu fact, I believe they won't have m* there," protested-, Phyllis Boyd, aliM Meliis, who-'was'charged with having been found in a helplessly drunken state en Saturday. Despite her disinclination J: to go to "the island," His Worship act|J cd on the suggestion of Senior-Sergeant Willis, and ordered defendant to fcpend i the, next twelve months at Pakatoa, which intimation was • received by Boyd j with maiiy semi-hysterical cries of disI approval. .Defendant was escorted from ■' the precincts of the Court, loudly de- -' ciaring that Pakatoa would nover sec .' her. " The theft of from the money-hoi ' of „ a friend wns the charge preferred ,' against Squire-Hardy, alias Sydney Iteid. ' The charge was not denied. Senior-Sei-I geant Willis.said that on May 7 defend-. ;' ant visited the house of Mary Ward, complainant in tho ense. In the kitchen. s a money-box was attached to tho wall 4 and defendant removed the lid and eloln 9 the money. Defendant wa9 fined JilO, in e default one month's imprieonment, ?.nd t was ,ordered to l-epay tho money atoleu. [t Margaret Williams contested a chargo 0 that she was an incorrigible rogue, huv. . ing iiisuflicient means of. support, and having been convicted of boing a rogui, j and a vagabond, but as the evidence 1 against her was deemed to be conclumvu 9 . as to her.mode of living, blio'waa ecu--9 lencd to four months' imprisonment. 9 For insobriety, Hupert William. Sl s Ledger and George Joseph. Horrocks wern ) wch fined 10s., in default -18 hours' de- . tention, and a first offender was fineo. bs., or 24 hours' imprisonment. | Arthur Somerville, who was convictedf of'a breach of the "anti-shouting" regu t latiohs, was ordered to pay £b 16s. fid, s expenses. Mr. W. Perry appeared for defendant. The heavy expensw wete dut to a witness having been subpochaed from Auckland. For allowing payments on a mninlcn ' ance ordoi- respecting bin wife hhd chili dren to fall into-arrear to,'thc extent oi ■ 10s., Joim Brnmley wan sentenced to ' a month's, imprisonment, the warrant to f be suspended so long as he pays off the ; arrears at the rate of 355. per week. ■ John Robert Miner Anderson was convicted of having disobeyed thb conditions of a maintenance ordor, and tras ordered to undergo three mouths' imprißonment, the warrant to be ausi>on'Jcd so long as £'A) is paid forthwith off the ; amount of the arrears (.£171155. 9d.), and ' the balance or' thV arrears m wiped out at tho rat© of ss. per week. Walter Henderson Weir was ordered to pay 12s. 6d. per week towards the maintenance of his- wife. ■ .