MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

PPLICE -BUSINESS.

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt with the police and maintenance' cases in the Magistrate's, Court yesterday.

.Thomas Laider was charged with tho theft..of a pair of spectacles, olio silk seaif and a coat, total value ,£2, the property of John Henry Pope, foreman at the destructor. The ncensed and another' man • named- Miller went, round to Ihe destructor, and Miller asked Tope for an old coat, which was given to him. "While there the'accused appropriated Pope's coat in which there were the spectacles and scarf. He kent tlio snoctacles. save away the scarf and pawned the coat. Imider was convicted and sentenced tn-1-' days' imnrisonment. On being convicted for the fourth time for drunkenness, John Joseph Buckley ■was fined 205., and by consent a prohibition order was issued against him. Samuel Costain, o* his second conviction, was fined 10s., in default 48 hours' imprisonment. r '• ■Josiah George Carpenter (for whom Mr. Douglas Jackson was cjiarged 1 with failing to account for the sum of .£•160, alleged to have been received by him between October 10 and December 9, 1920, from William Leonard, Palmer on terms requiring him to account" for the same to the Marlborough Farmers Co-operative Association. Ltd.. and that having failed to so account for or pnf the 'same, he had been guilty of theft.. Chief Detective Ward applied for a remand to Nelson, where the offence was alleged to have been committed. Jlr. Jackson, in asking for boil, said that tho whole matter wns one of accountancy, and it would lie proved that .his client had not been guiltv of any criminal intention. The remand was granted. Bail was fixed at .£250 and one surety of a like amount. W. Cr. White, who was in orroar to tie amount of £82 3s. Gd. in respect to a maintenance order, wns sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant to he suspended 60 long as he pays 7s. Gd. per week.