MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11117, 8 November 1901, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

INEBRIETY. At the Magistrate's Court yest«»day, I Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., convicted and die ' charged a first offender for inebriety, and fined Jane O'Connell, alias Stanley, lOs, in default forty-eight hoars' imprisonment. AFFILIATION. Alexander Strothers, aged /seventeen, pleaded guilty to a charge of being about tc change hw locality without proving for an , unborn illegitimate child. H« whs ordered to find security in £50 that he would not do so, and to pay birth expenses, or to go to prison for six months. - ALLEGED THEFT. Paul Faville (Mr Donnelly), who wag charged with stealing a pocket-handkerchief 1 and at 2s, from the person of Mary* Davis, in Ihe train for the. races on Wednesday, was remanded until Saturday. Bail was allowed m the accused's own re--1 cognisance of £50, asd one surety of £50. ALLEGED' "DISORDERLIES. , ' Three men, John McKenzie, alias William Morrison, Michael Kirwan, and John Mci Kensie, were charged with being idle anddis-. • orderly persons, in that they habitually coni sorted with reputed thieves. The charge

vraf bid under the Public Offtnces Act Amendment Act, of this year. McKenzie, alias -Morrison, and Kirwan, for each of i { vrliwin Mr Donnelly appeared, were remanded i until to-day, at counsel's request. Bail • was fixed in each case in £50, and one surety • in £50. John McKenzie (without the alias) also pleaded "Not guilty," but- evidence hay- . I ing_ betn brought as to the bad company he had kept, was sentenced to an imprisonment i of three months.