MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13109, 7 May 1908, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Mfeers B. Bayji€6..,S. S. Bl&okburn©, and W. Barnctt, J.P.s, presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. James 'Kinnerbrook, a middle-aged man, was convicted on a charge of vagrancy, ajwl eentenced to three months' imprisonment. The warrant was suspended provided he remained in the (Samaritan Home for that period. Arthur Gaskin, Harry Cook, Leonard Staee, Chas. Hemin.sp, Keudl<> Atk/ineoiij E. Taylor and Albert' Willis, wore each fined Ids aaid oosts for having ridden bicycles on the footpath. Harold Davis and Archibald Moeller were each fined a similar amount for riding bicycles at night tf'iffchout Victor Dookery was fired £1 and cc&ts for driving a hore© and vehicle acrose the inter-seotion of High. ilanoheeter and Lichfield streete, a>t other than a walking pace. John Martin was fined 10s and costs for leaving a vehicle imattonded in a public thoroughfare. John McDonald, Ghae. Parker, Thomas Marri3<tt and Alfred Muff, wej-o each fined 20s and for allowing cattle to wander at large. Edith. Kerr Avas fined l&s aoid,ciQ©j»for, a eiiniWir oflfciric©,' ■*? ■'.'•'''■''" r- : -

•Victor Steele, a carter, was charged with fi'iling to retain control of hie horse in the street. It appeared that defendant had. charge w i/ivo and for the purpinse of allowing "Uie horse/in the second dray to get a drink cf water at the tank in front of the Exoel&ior Hotel, threw the reins he was leading the horse by over tihe hamee, thereby enabling it to reach the tin!;. A policeman came along shortly after, with the ultimate result that defendant was fined 5s and coets for h,:a indiscretion.

Messrs G. A.' Lewin, J.P., and J. Gnrrard, J.l\, presided, at the LyUeJton Magistrate's Court yesterday. \ A firet offender, charged with, drunkenness, W3B fined os, in default 24 hours' irciprieonmenit.. Henry Morris, who had been previously convicted, was fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment, on a charge of dnrnkennaas. * Amnm Maud Sa.les, a young womaai, was charged -with having broken a water .jag,'the-property of D. J. Kelloher, licensee of the British Hotel. Aoei!6>ed denied the offence, but it.whs shown ■that &he had gone into the hotel and ankcd for a drini. h»j*-. the barman ! would not serve her. »Sh<\ mad© a grab at a glass of beor, and then pjrJied up the water juc. which riho threw at' the .barman. • She was lined os. and ordered to pay 2s ('A. tho value of tilie jug. Mabel Edith Dickinson, a cirl of "igbteen }<virs, pleaded guilty to a charge , of vagrancy. Mr gmafll ajjroed to tako her to the Samaritan Home, and to find her a situation, if she lie-hnved-herself. She was eontenced to threo montlhs' imprisonment, the warrant to l>e suspended as- long as she remained at the Sama.ritan Home.