MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

AS3AUWING A CONSTABLE. Mr. J. S. Evahß. S.M.,' presided over the Magistrate's Court yesterday. A waterside worker named Maurice O'Connor pleaded guilty to being disorderly while drunk in Manners Street, to using obscene language and assaulting Constable Coward. O'Connor, when arrests ed by the constable, went alone auietly for a short 'distance and then 6truck the constable a violent blow. He hurt the constable seriously, so that a doctor had to be called in to attend to him. O'Connor was fined Ms. for disorderly behaviour and £2 on each of tho other two charges. An apparently able-bodied young man named Onortre Francis was charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he was found:begging alms in Cuba and Manners Streetß. The police record showed that Francis had been before the Court previously. He waa cent to prisonfor 48 hours.

Donald P. M'Caskill went into the Post Office in .Wellington in February with the object of withdrawing Zs. 6d. from the Post Office Savings Bank, but managed to secure someone else's bank-book with a signed withdrawal slip for £10. M'OasklH casned this, and' left Wellington. He was arrested recently at Hastings, and yester-' day pleaded guilty to the chareo of theft of £10. He was remanded to Thursday for sentence.

A youth named Henry Bobert Taylor pleaded guilty to the theft of a blanket ■valued at 13a. 6d., the property of Mar> Paris. He was oonvicted and placed on probation for six months, ana wa» ordered to restore the stolen property.' For drunkenness Patrick fiinnott was convicted and a prohibition order to be effective for twelve months was lsiued against him; and for committing an indecent act he was fined 20s. Louisa Maitland, with three previous convictions, was fined 255., with the option of three dave' imprisonment. John Qould, for committing a breach of hiß prohibition order, wai convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months.

Victor J. Burroughs was ordered to contribute 10b. per week towards the support of each of his three children, who are' in a home.

A concert in aid of tho Anglican Boys' Homes; Lower Hutt, wns held in St. James's Parish Hall, Lower Hutt, oji Friday evening. Among those contributing to the programme were: Misses Parsons, Hopkirk, and Treseder (two), Mr. and Miss Treseder (duet), Misses Carter, Atkins, and Croft (recitations), Mrs. Bowel 1 and Miss Sherwin (pianoforte solo), Misses Kennedy, Natusch, and Mr. Saunders (songs). Tho effort realised .£23. A social evening will be given this week by the executive of the Wellington Federal Club.