MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. W, G. Eiddell, S.M., Frederick Lyuess was sent to gaol for a month for <taunkenne«s; Francis Aloyeius Flynn was fined 20s, or 48 hoOTK 1 imprisonment in default; John David Speight was fined 40s, or seven days' itl default, and a prohibition was issued against him j Malcolm Robertson was fined 10s, or 48 hours' imprisonment in default; three first offenders were dealt with according to scale. Samuel Doherty, who was found helplessly drunk on the King's Wharf, was remanded for four days for medical treatment. An employee of the Harbour Board was charged that between February, 1912, afld February, 1913, he did steal a bundle of -wire and other articles, the property of the Wellington Harbour Boafd, of, the value, of £6. Mr. 0. Beere appeared for the accused, who pleaded guilty; Most of the stolen pro* perty had been recovered. Mr. Beere asked that a fine be imposed. Accused, he eaid. was a married man, with no family. Hie Worship imposed a fine of £6, and ordered accused to pay r 3oa>.th.a Value; of the goods not recovered; in ae'fault to go to gaol for a month. ' John 1 , James Cotterill, who had been foiimt guilty, of the theft of two watches and a chain from the vest pocket of a painter on the Arahura, came up for sentence, • Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for accused, artel asked for leniency, ao the young man had been in custody for Seven days. ' 'Hie Worship imposed a fine of 20s; in default 24 hours' impriBoflflletitt i , *c r ' v i' John Eryse/ charged with three breaches of & prohibition order, was fined £3. with Court costs,- in default 14 dftya' imprisonment. In, the afternoon Alice Brown, charged with drunkenness, who had been remanded fof a week for medical treatment, Was ordered to pay £2 2s expenses, ov in the alternative to go to gaol for forty-eight hours. BY-LAW CASES. & fcemington, Jones was fined 10a, with»cqflts 13«, for quitting a train in motion between Ngaio and Khandallah. For allowing etock to wander, Cecil Graham was' fined 10s, with 11s costs. Frank Jones, James Stewart, Eichard £aynor, Win. Rico, and Norah Ryan, were each fined 6s, with 11s costs') Thomas Henry Price^ for failing to send his "child to school, was fined 2s, with 7s costs. For ill-treating a horse by causing it to work while in a state of illhealth, Thomas .Frederich was' fined 40b, with costs 9s ; John Bowles, for a simi- ' lar offence, was fined £3, with £1 10s costs. Dr. Mackin, J.P., presided over yesterday's sitting of the Mount Cook Police Court, when several cases- of drunkenness were dealt with. Three first offenders were convicted and discharged, four others were each mulcted in a sum of 10s, with the option of 24 hours' detention, and T. Donovan, on old offender, was sent to gaol for two tnonthe.