MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 11

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE BUSINESS. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., had' a moderote charge-sheet to dispose of in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Gagliano Batossi, a youth, was remanded to appear at To Arolia on April 14 on a charge of theft at Waihou of a bank cheque for X 7 Gs., the property of Pomrer and Co. For commit! ing two breaches ot ns prohibition order, John Joseph Buckley was fined 20s. for each offence. For obstructing the police by giving notice of traps set by the police for erring • motorists, Arthur Jacobs was fined 10s. and costs 7s. Francis Martin Keegan, 17 years of age, pleaded guilty to the theft of a small roll of carpet from a business place and was. on the recommendation of Chief Detective Ward, placed on probation for six months. „ • Another vouth. named Harry Perkins owned up ’to unlawfully converting a bicycle to his own use. The Magistrate said he would not enter a conviction, but at the same time he would not order that the youth’s name should ho kept out of tho papers. J. R. Brown, licensee of the City Hotel was charged with supplying liquor to’a youth under 21 years -yl Arthur Crum, the harman at tho hotel, was similarly charged. After hearing the evidence', the charge against the licensee was dismissed, -and (he harman was convicted and fined »C2. James J. Moloney, barmatn at: the Terminus Hotel, also charged with supplying a vouth with liquor, was convicted and fined £2, and costs and expenses £2 19s. Bd. John Conrad Petersen, a Norwegian, for failing to get an‘alien’s permit to work on the s.s. Kapiti. was convicted and ordered to pay costs, and a similar penalty was inflicted on "VVillmm. U. Sawyers, the captain of tho vessel, for employing Petersen without first ascertaining that he was licensed. Edward Johnston, literary secretary of the Socialists’ Society, was charged with importing seditious literature. Tliere were four informations. On. the suggestion of Chief Detective Ward the hearing of the case was adiourned for a week to allow, of the Magistrate reading through the alleged corrupt literature.