MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23482, 10 November 1941, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SATURDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) CONVERSION OF BICYCLE George Mason Elliot, a pensioner aged til, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for converting a bicycle owned by Pauline Bender, to his own use. He was also convicted of drunkenness, for the third time in six months, and of obtaining liquor while prohibited. Elliot denied being drunk and said that he had appeared so to the constable because he had fallen off his bicycle on to his head. He only took the bicycle because when he was by Coker’s Hotel he tried to catch a tram but missed it. Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike said that no tram went by there; Elliot must have been drunk; On the two lesser charges; Elliot was convicted and discharged. RESISTING CONSTABLE Timothy Brady was fined 20s, in default 48 hours in prison for drunkenness, and 20s in default three days’ imprisonment for resisting Constable F. Thompson in the execution of his duty. DRUNKENNESS George Davies Rosr alias Rose, aged 27, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkennness, using. obscene language and damaging a police overcoat. Senior-Sergeant Bickerdike said that Ross swore at the constable who was arresting him for drunkenness and tore his mackintosh. He had a long list. Ross was fined 10s for drunkenness, 20s in default three days’ imprisonment for using obscene language, and ordered to repay £2 6s 9d, the damage to the overcoat, in default three days’ imprisonment.