MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 62, 17 June 1916, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

YESTERDAY’S SITTING. At the week!y sitting of the Stmt, ford Magistrate’s Court yeste&lav, Mr CHIMNEI on fire? T.^ henne u Corklll > cha: 'g° d Svith allowing_a chimney to catch fire, was fined o sand costs 7s. OTD STAMPS OX LETTER. iNlary Mowbray pleaded to a charge of that on or about March -? she dld fraudulently affix used stamps to a letter, I The adjourned case against H Mowbray for fraudulently affixing used I ' staui l>s to letter was again called. 1 is. G. Stanton, PostmasterStrat- [ ford, said that in answer fo a letI ter, defendant came to his ..office on the first day of last montlff Asked where he got his stamps, he said he had purchased them at thtfr counter j and affixed t Hem while in the lobby, and immediately posted thrf letter ■ fhe Magistrate read a letter written by H. Mowbray to the postmistress, stating that he had bought the stamps affixed on the letter" at the Stratiord Post Office.

Defendant stated that tlii letter had been written by his wife for him. He iiad never had any stamps at home. -*

f ile Magistrate said that defendant had caused the police and Cdlir c a lot of trouble with his insincerity in the matter. -T

Defendant was convicted and fined £6 and costs 15s. The ease against Mrs Mary Mowbrav was dismissed. ■ * MAINTENANCE. -*

Mabel Green, who attended the Court accompanied by her five small children, proceeded against her husband, William Green, tor the disobedience of a maintenance order.

Defendant said that he was working at Patea and was earning £3 per week during the ury weather.

The Magistrate sentenced defendant to three months imprisonment with hard labor, the warrant to be suspended providing he paid into the Court at Patea £2 os every fourteen days.