MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1645, 29 May 1879, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Thubsday, May 29. [Before G. L. Hellish, Esq., R.M.] Deunk AND Disoedebly.— One inebriate, ■who had been before the Court previously, was fined 20s. Labcbny. —John Lewis, George Hyde, Robert Hardie, and George Dodd, four lads, were charged with stea’ing six bags, value 3s, the property of John Brightling. The lads admitted the theft. Sergeant Morice said that young as they were they were incorrigible, Hydps and Hardie having been previously convicted in the pourt. The father of Lewis told a lamentable story of his goings on, and Said the boy was a confirmed thief, and had repeatedly robbed him. The lad could read and write, but he was afraid tp get him a situation in consequence of his dishonest habits, He, the father, was 72 years of age, and his wife had loft him twelve years ago with the boy, who had only recently been restored to him, but ho could do nothing with him, and was willing to pay something towards his maintenance. Lewis was sent to the Industrial School for four years. The father of Hyde gave an equally unpromising account of him, and said ho had been refused admission to the Gloucester street school. His Worship said as he had been convicted already he could not send him to the Industrial School. There was nothing left for him but to try what flogging and imprisonment would do. Ho would be sent to prison for one mouth with hard labor, and receive eighteen lashes at the commencement and termination of the sentence. Sergeant Morice said that Dodd’s father was p'nder committal for trial for theft, and his mother was too much overcome to appear in Court. His Worship said he did not desire to flog or imprison him, as he had not previously been convicted. He would send him to the Industrial School for two years. Mrs Hardie appeared to explain her son’s appearance in Court, and gave an equally unsatisfactory account of his goings on. His Worship ordered him twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, and to receive twenty-four lashes with a cat-o’-nine tails. LYTTELTON. Thubsday, May 29. H Allwfight, Esq.; Mayor.] DBUNK.—John Hanly, for being noisy drunk on Wednesday at noon in a public place w&s fined 10s, and Charles Sinnock for like misbehaviour received the clemency of the Court, and was discharged, having promised to leave the place.