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Press, Volume L, Issue 15023, 18 July 1914, Page 3

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(Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey. S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. One male firs*, offender, for drunkenness, was lined os or 24 hours' impriMnment.. Andrew Gilmour for his second offence on the same count, was lined 10s, or -IS hours' imprisonment. John Crowley, who did not appear. D was churned with drunkenness and with " J having procured liquor while a prohibited person. The police evidence was - | that this was the third breach of the 1 i order. For drunkenness he was con- . | victed and discharged, and on the other , I count was fined £3, with the alterni- ' I five of one month's imprisonment. \\ THEFT. \ | Clarence Pentecost appeared on a •charge that on July *"tii. at Linwood, 1 I he did cteal irom the premises of Chas. - i Childs. tobacconist, a quantity of . ! cicars and cigarettes, of the value of :' ! Ofk. ■ | Acc-seu pleaded guilty, and wa.s comt ' milted to the Supremo Court for sen- . i fence. . j i j "YOU HOLD YOUK TONGUE.' 1 j I j John Whitty. a taxi-driver, was | - | charged with tailing to stop lus ear I ' ! when" an accident had occurred. ] ! | Mr F. K. Hunt an.iK-arr.-d tor accused, j and asked lor a r< -ii-and for a week. Tha j 'case, he said. w.u> that in which pe-opl-3 J \ : were injured'on tin* New Brighton road, j 'I so that more wonld certainly he heard ! |■ of it. Tins man had received his sum- ; mons only after f> p.m. on Thursday. ', | Senior-Sergeant Mathieson objected , j to the remand. ' I Mr Hunt: 1 consider I am perfectly \ justiiied in ask in * for a remand. Not only do 1 want to see this man. hut I [ also wa-it to vi.-w tiie spot. , Benior-S.->vgcani M.r.hioson: Thero j will he unite'a nuinbci of informations* . agains' tliis man. i ! Mr Hunt: That, is no reason for ob- I , jecting. ■Senior-iSergeai.t. Mathieson: You \ hold your tongue. I'm &* caking now, ■ and f didn't interrupt you. , Mr Hunt: I object, your Wor- [ ship—— Mr A'.ners (who had sprung up alr I most white with indignation): Cod, *, rir! As a meml>er of tin/ Bar I enter '' my protest against a policeman speak- > ! ing in this manner to a member of tho profession. ' Senior-Sergeant Mathieson further explained that there were other informations, and he did not think a remand " should be given. Tho writ had been , served at middry. '. Mr Hunt: Upon the father. He did 1 not get it till alter six o'clock. A remand of a week was granted, as ' asked for. MINOR CASES. \ Thomas Gerald Whitty, charged -with [ crossing the Linwood railway crossing , on May 20th when a train was approaching, pleaded guilty. Ho was I unable to appear thrcugh illness, and I was convicted and discharged. The following, for failing to send I their children to school, were fined: — Wiliam Collard os, William Mehlopht , 2s. Percivai George Smith, tor fixing- a waste pipe without having a plumber, ' was lined os. and costs. This was tho 1 second breach of the Plumbers' Act, and j Mr Alpers appeared lor tho prosecution. DEFENCE CASES, j For breaches of the Defence y\ct, the j following fines and penalties were inflicted: —Ralph J. Dixon, £3, and deprived of civil rights for three years; ' Heathcote Mann, £5 and deprived of 3 civil rights for three years; William P. " Dumphv, £3; Leslie Evans, £1; Row- - land Hill, £1; -S. James, £2; Harold - It. Johnson, £2; Fred King, £2; i Alfred Thomas Legross, ss; Daniel * George, £3; George P. Thomson, £3; j* Harry Watson, £5; Harry S. Moreton, ' £2; Albert Pitt, £2; Andrew Nelson, • 10s; Allen Wright, £1; Iteginald Gor--1 don Douglas, ss; Harold Key, ss; [ George Henry Lawrence, ss; Robert . James Robertson, ss; JJertio Sisson, ss; and Georgo Tom Warren, os.