MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10273, 7 May 1919, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE AND CIVIL CASES

Police and civil-oases wero dealt with by Mr F. V. Frazar, |S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. • , Jolin Wynn, who ihad appeared before the Court on several occasions for drunkennness, was .again charged with a similar, offence, also with;, breaking his -prohibition, order. Wyrm promised • the magistrate, that .he. vrou.td beep away from,-> :i laquor-,. i£ -given a chance.; ik-Frazer informed the accused - that< he was qualifying for a term on Roto Boa Islanu, and fined him £2, in default.- seven., days' imprisonment.;.... ■-.■. -.-.-■-.•■ i- _ James Scott,..on- charges or., insobriety and being absent from the Tainui without.. leave,. was convicted and fined 10s on the first count and remanded till to-day on the second, in order that the shipping authorities may attend the court. ~.'.. A SUPPOSED JOKE. - -

Clarence" MoCrae ' "Gibson" pleaded guilty to a charge that, being-a man reasonably supposed to be' of militai-y ago, he .refused to .answer questions put to him by Sergeant J. Sweeney regarding his enrolment in the Reserve. lEmexson ijaid that the previous afternoon . Sergeant Sweeney, when on. duty on Lambton quay, saw the defendant in front of the Government" Buildings acting" in a peculiar way. He appeared as. if' he desired to Ihide .himself, so Sergeant Sweeney interrogated him.. Gibson re. fused to answer, any of *&e questions put to .him, and when told Hie was liable to be arrested 'he still refused. The accused was so Insistent in his" refusal to answer questions -that Sergeant Sweeney said he would have 'to arrest him. The" accused; teplied, 1 * ''That'-itr funny ; arrest' me." : At the police" station the defendant- 6Tipi)lSoia -all the information that was required-of Kim, and this was. found" : tb be' alt 'right. Gibson then asked -to eee'^a-'debtor, and said ihe would pay-'fn©? fee." : ■'■■ A doctor-examined'■ him;' but'"made no reportrto the rpolicej-'wbo' did-notf know the reason of : his being summoned..The : said -that- on tho way - tc the police sattion- he told -Sergeant Sweeney the joke was all on his side.. He thought .the Military Service-Act was a thing of _the past, and that he ,tos being arrested on a- ,dhairgo, .of; drunkenness. Re'"had; had-a. ; little

drink, but not sufficient to -make hiav drunk. . TJintil he was flocked ,up he thought the whole thing was .a joke. He certainly had no idea-that he was attempting to avoid observation. The magistrate said that if there was nothing further in; the case' than the facts -placed before the Court, he would not penalise the- accused, an-y - further, as he had been locked up-all night. He wbfeld be 5 convicted "and-discharged,;

Walter Augustus "William Rosevekr," who did _noi: appear,, charged with wbiJe,.jai i :P>argP. of,a horse and cart in Bi<jdifbrd street. Constable Joss ..said that .when he arreted -tho-.accued- the- harness on- thehorso was -broken and the horse loose from the cart. • TJpb» making further inquiries, ..witness found„.,that. .Rosevear who.is a milk, vendor residing at lslandv^av,-..W^fi^^nitb : 4hi t 3, J arjes.t,t collided --with-a-motor-car. .driven, by ■. a Mr Dineen. As a result, the motorcar received considerable, damage-. . The accused-was convicted and fined £3 "with witness".« expenses ss, in ' default to" go to prison for fourteen days. The magistrate added that a drunken man was principally a menace to himself, but-when one was in charge of a vehicle ho" was a" danger to, the nubile. IN POSSESSION OF FIREARMS. was with drunkenness and. with, carrying ifir.e-; arms ... . ' 1. - ', ,L - Sub-I'nspector: Emerson stated that the accused was arrested in -Willis street at 10.20 o'clock the previous night. -He'-hnd' A been put out of a house'for some -reason and "on being searched' at- the - Mount 'Cook • Police Station was found tb bo in possession of a revolver." Wh'ein asked for an explanation, Nofd said he bought.the revolver front a. man whom he did not know. The weapon waa similar in all particulars with one found'On a- waterside worker- who was before the' court' a few days ago.' Nord was also a waterside worker. It was not only an' oifEenco to carry firearms*, hut _ also to purchase them without a permit. The magistrate: Hare all the secondhand dealers been. notified' tp this,

effect? -.■■■ ■ ■• ''.■■•'-' =- r ' <"' ..■...;.---•?!•"■•■«•■. Sur>--Inspector "Emerson:* iesi '■;"■_'«.. number of them send' persons who desire- to' purchase" firearms to' the •policestation'' for permits. ... He added that he was not satisfied that all secondhand'dealers took similar precautions; Tho magistrate: "Well, tho. -present case will be a further warning M' them. ■ ■ , ; -■•' i • , Tho accused ■ said - he had, ..possessed the revolver for over two years., He Found "it in his box and having no Use for it he decided to bell tho weapon. Sub-Inspector Emerson, -after " inupeetiriprthcf revolver;' said it liad'novcf been'used."". " , ; Tho magistrate, in fining isord £l, said that if ho thought there was rmTthing he-hind tho oase, or there waft any reason for the accused being in possession of the revolver, he would have dealt with him in a different way. CIVIL CASES. In the following undefended civil cases judgment wag given for plaintiff by default:—Alexander McMillan. Ltd. v. F. Herb.-Price v.« A. Bobinson.£2 6s lOd, costs 10s; Kndalc (Australasian) Ltd. v A. 'S; Wallace £2B 5s Bd, costs £2 14s- N.X.-Tvre and Hubhor Company v W.-C. Holdaway £l6 .4s 10d. costs £1 10s 6d; same v. *J.. B. Boid £2B 8s 8d; costs £2 14s; Hope Gibbons, Sons; and J. B. Clnrlcson,' Ltd. v. QsM,, £o**ol J»■<. Annie .Torßspspn y,,.Mrs S.. W. Williams £22,40?. coHs,,£2.l7s';.- Griffiths and Company,-Ltd. v. Jack Lnur £63 10s lid,-.costs £4 Is 9d; Lazarus "Wolfe Balkind r. -Henry.-' John Simpson £6O, c-osts £4 3s; Sconllar Company. Ltd. \-. G. L. Eces £2£> 7s 9d. costs £2 Ms; E. Stevens v. A. G. Haines £3O, costs £2 145.-- • • JUDGMENT SUMMONSES, In Judgment summons cases L. Clifton was ordered to pay G. W. Kempton £6 10s forthwith, in, default to go to prison for seven days, tho warrant to'be suspended for one week; Thomas A. Chamberlain is to pay.the New %enland^Au-fomatig" n '£l4 6s' 2d forthwith, or,go to jail for fourteen days, the warrant not to take effect for" foui-.te«nday^;Rshprfc..Peck is to par 'Oswald Rawden St. •John "Bee'ro dfe ,18s ",6'd forthwith, in default.nirio days' imprisonment, tho warrant to be suspended for seven days'; J and the snme'indgment dohtor.is. to'pay Hutt Girls* School, Ltd.. : £l4'

8s 6d forthwith or suffer imprisonment for fifteen days, the warrant tc be held over for fourteen days. BY-LAW" CASES.

Percival Williams, who failed to stop, his motor-car when', requested to do mi by a constable, was fined 10s with, costs.

For occupying a stand without a permit Hyman Green, hawker, was ordered to pay 7s costs. For driving an insufficiently-lighted vehicle at night, Martin Lyden waa fined 7s, and for allowing cattle to wander on- a thoroughfare at Miramar William Wilson was ordered to pay 13scosts.