MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9790, 13 October 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND BY-LAW CASES. The following oases were dealt with by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday:— Sarah Goodwin, who had several previous convictions recorded against her for insobriety, was fined j£3, in default to serve fourteen, days in gaol. REFUSED A DRINK. James Wallace appeared on charges of drunkenness and with assaulting a barman. As soon as the accused entered the dock he said: “I ash for a chance Your Worship. I have money at the Post Office end tan pay a fine. I plead guilty to being drunk and don't know anytiiing about assaulting the barm'au, but I will give him .£3 for his trouble/’ Inspector Marsaok stated that Wallace wont to a city hotel in a drunken condition. and the barman refused to servo him. He thereupon went out, returned with a piece of concrete and hurled it at tha barman. Tho missile missed its object-, and crashed into the back of tho bar. The defendant was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and lined JES for the assault. The alternative was fixed at one month's imprisonment. VARIOUS OTHER CASES.

Charles Alfred Griffiths, an articled seaman on an oversea vessel, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully absent from hie vessel without leave. The accused was sent to gaol for fourteen days, and is to bo placed on board bis vessel on the application of the captain. Norman Darcy, for obtaining liquor by representing himself to be 21 years of age, was fined 20s, with costs. A married woman named Lily Isabella Savidge was called upon to defend a charge of procuring liquor for a prohibited person. Mr J. J. McGrath appeared for her, and it was proved that the liquor was procured for the woman’s own rise and not for her husband, from whom it was kept under lock and key. Mr McCarthy, in dismissing the information, said that if a -woman and wife gave a man a kick on the downward step she must take her share of the blame. For committing broaches of their prohibition orders Patrick Joseph Sheeby was convicted and fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment, and Ernest Edward Mazcy and Joseph Humphrey Roberts 40s each, with the alternative of serving fourteen days in gaol. Keeping her shop open for the purpose of trade on Sunday cost Ida Medcalf 20s and costs 7s. Edward George Tierney for using obscene language was 'fined .£5, and a prohibition order is to be issued againlst him. Mr H. P. O'Learv appeared for the defendant and said he was a m'an 50 years of age, and when he made, use of the language was practically in a state of delirium tremens. Three youths named respectively Harold E. Winstanley, Donald Gunn France, and Arthur Leonard France, were each fined £2 for riding motor cycles at a dangerous speed along Clyde quay. Inspector Marsack said that the youths were using the thoroughfare as a racecourse and tho estimated speed at which they were travelling at the time was upwards of 35 miles an hour. For riding a motor cycle without lights Frederick Dewhurst was fined 10s, costs 7e. For having insufficient lights on a motor cycle Donald Fraser was mulcted to the extent of SOs fid. Oscar. Hull-Brown, for riding a motor bicycle in Herbert street —a prohibited street—wa« fined 20s, with costs 17s fid. For allowing a chimney to take fire cost George William Jacobs 27s fid, and for driving n. vehicle on the wrong side of the plantation in Clyde quay Frederick Gordon -Potter was fined Ids, costs 17s fid. and Ernest William Trengrovu 20s, with costs 17s fid. J. B. Berman, for failing to close his tobacconist's shop at the appointed hour, was convicted and fined 40s, with costs Is. William J. Ormond, for failing to attend drill was fined 40s. costs 7s, and Gordon McLeod 00s. costs 7s. For allowing a dead calf to remain on his property at Khandallah, David Prcssly Matthews was fined 40s, with costs i7s fid. WANDERING STOCK. The following persons were fined in the under-mentioned amounts for allowing stock to wander:—Albert August Renner and Charles Gadd each 10s, costs 17s fid; William Ernest Dailey, John Hicks. E. Mulhern, and W. Pearce 20s each, with costs: Vance Shannon and Alfred Bradley (two charges) 40s each, with costs: Charles Bayliss and William A. Stace .£5 each, with costs.