MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20773, 6 February 1933, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

SATURDAY. (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) ' DRUNKENNESS. Albert Joseph Bell, a labourer, aged 40, of no fixed abode, was remanded for a week for medical treatment following a charge of being found helplessly drunk in the Main South road at' Dunsandel on February 4. Senior-Sergeant J. Pox stated that accused had been drinking methylated spirits, and that a bottle containing some had been found beside him. He had been' bothering the stores at Dunßandel to obtain the spirit. Charles Rochester, a labourer, aged 29, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in High street on February 4, having been * twice previously convicted within the past six months. He was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. TRAFFIC OFFENCE. William John Thomas (voluntary appearance) waß fined 10s and costs for entering the intersection of Cashel and . Colombo streets when the automatic signal was against him. CHILDREN'S COURT. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) CONVERTED CARS. The unlawful conversion of several motorcars between August 17 and January 25 resulted in two youths being jointly charged with converting four cars, and one of them with making away with a car by himseif. Chief-Detective J. Carroll said that a constable had caught them trying to get away with a car. They had jumped out, leaving the constable to stop the car, which was still moving. "One car had been abandoned at Woodend, damaged to the extent of £6. The elder of the tyvo was remanded for a week in the custody of the Child Welfare Officer, and the other was placed under supervision, and ordered to pay his'share of the damage done. STOLE APRICOTS. A juvenile failing for orchard fruit 1 was responsible for two young boys being admonished and discharged by the Magistrate,

According to the police sergeant boys were caught taking 4d worth of apricots from an orchard which had lost a good deal 01 fruit.