MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
(Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) | Throe first offenders for drunkenness wero each lined 5s and costs, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A similar number were convicted and discharged, one on the understanding that he paid "Os 6d medical exnenscs. and tho second because he had been knocked about by another man, and had his face considerably injured, and tho third oecauso the Salvation Army agreed to look after him. John Grey, a second offender, was fine*:! 10s and costs, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, and John Nolan, Wm.- Teare, and James Laing, third offenders, wero each fined 20s and costs, in default seven days' Im- ■ prisonment. ' ! Rupert Isaacs was remanded till Wednesday on a charge of breaking and entering the dwellinghouse of Wm. J. Dunno with intent to commit a crime. i SOUTHBRIDGE. ' A girl named Phvllis Hill was chanted, before Dr. Withers and Mr John McMillan. J.P.s, at tho Southbridge Magistrate's Court on Monday, with stealing a picture and other articles, valued at £4 from the residence of Mr W. Nixon, Killinchy. She was convicted and ordered to come ur> for sentence if called upon.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 2
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