MAN FINED £20.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19388, 14 August 1928, Page 4

MAN FINED £2O.

GAVE SEVEN FALSE FIRE alarms. For some time past the number of malicious fire alarms baa been unusually heavy and the Brigade has been trying to catch the offenders. On Saturday night an officer of the Brigade caught I one, William Hull, in the act of giving a false alarm at the corner of Wilson's road and Leicester street. This and six other charges of a similar nature were preferred against him in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., fined him £2O in all for his foolish pranks, and told him he was lucky to escape gao . Mr A. W. Smithson appeared for Hull, who pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Fitzpatrick spoke _ o* th-danger arising from such malicious alarms. Accused was twenty-seven nf a£re yot ho was making a hooligan of himself. During tl» Svo motto sMi-fiur «'»™ had been received, mostly f ' 1 ttom and nearby districts. Accused i lived nfc Mr Smithson said tho trouble was cither due to mental disorder or to drink. Last Saturday Hull had been 2r nkino all the afternoon. Counsel suggested that a substantial fine would S the case, and asked that his name that. In this case it is part of the

: All these things hit not only the accused, but any relatives lie sSluspe V ct'or Ktapatrick said he did «nt think drink was the whole cxpla nation. Accused had been sober enough tn run off when molested. t0 Hull was prohibited for twelve months For the first offence, on AuS 4th, he was fined £lO or one Lath's imprisonment. For the first ofS»I oVT« g »»t us. i. - fined, and on the others ho was convicted and discharged.