THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 11

THE COURTS.

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(Before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. la. Kell*, a statutory second offender, was nm-icted and fined £3. in default seven days' imprisonment, on a charpe of drunkenness. A first offender was fined Es.

VAGRANCY. Tbaddeiif Edward Doody, charged wiib be- . ;<jl c and disorderly, in that he consorted reputed thieves" and prostitutes, and •with stcaJin? a razor valued at 10s, was senior ccd t° three months* imprisonment with >aifl labour on the first, charge, and remanded lor cisht days on the second. ' ' placed ox probation. Charles Hamilton Homer was cliarged'witji rbtainisg amounts of £10 3a Gd, £13 Ba, nnd i-13 14s °bv false pretcncc«. Chief Detective Mcllveriey'said that the accused had repaid soroe of "the money, leaving a deficiency of *30 16s 6d. Accused was placed on probation 7or 12 months, and ordered to repay the dcficic'ncy it tho rate of £3 per month.

THEFT AND DAMAGE. Horaco l/oslie Wutt.3 (Mr Mallev) appeared on chars 33 °f stealing a bicycle valued at *10 1f,3.l f, 3. '" 1C P ro P ert '' °j Reginald Clifford Bertram, and with wilfully damaging a telephone slot machine (o the extent of £2 2.9. Hs *a? icmandfd for sentence until January gtb and ordered to remain in tho Salvation Arinj' Homo in tho meantime.