MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 194, 11 May 1908, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

• POLICE CASES. ; (Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., on • . ■■ >. . Saturday.) / DRUNKENNESS. -/■ j ,-A* first • offending • inebriate was firi'ed 55., in default 24 hours' "imprisonment; A female ffirst offender; was convicted' and discharged. . Henry Keogh, Randolph 'William Brown,'.; and- Matthew.' Moore ~:wero each fined.lo3., in default 24 hours' imprisonment.' William''Vincent was fined 205., in default Boven daysVimprisonment.' '' : ' , MISCELLANEOUS. - For i using obscene language in Taranaki. Street on Friday, William Robert Booth was fined' £5, iu'default 21 days' imprisonment. •Jamos/yriling was fined £5, in default -21 day's' imprisonment, for committing ii grossly indecent act. .; , A pica of guilty v.iis entered ijy William Burns,; alias Munro, alias Wilson, to a charge of; stealing an .overcoat, valued at £2,' belonging to Henry Abbott. A - sentenco of three months' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed. A remand until Wednesday, was granted in a case, in which Percy Faulkner was charged tfith having ■- attempted to commit an offence againßt a; girl aged eight'years and ono month. •• Michael Higgms pleaded guilty to a charge of alms-begging at Courtenay Place, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A young child was committed to a receiving home.. •. . .