MAGISTRATES COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 2

MAGISTRATES COURT.

' . . ' POLICE CASES. . (Before Mr. W. G.' Riddell, S.M.) ■ ,At tbo Magistrate's. Court on Saturday, a first offending inebriate was convicted and discharged.. '. . > . V .. A plea, of guilty was. entered by Phillip Mitcherliek to a charge of being an idle ana disorderly person, and ho was remanded till Wednesday for 'sentence. • ; Upon' a similar charge, Charjes: Stanley Steere was sentenced to three; months'- imprisonment with, hard. labour. The. accused was also charged with stealing a brief hag, a ' hymn book, and a Bible, the total value amounting to £1, the. property of Henry Samson. He was sentenced to on'o month's imprisonment, the sentences to run concur-, rently. .- ■•• v ' ' Tor using obscene language in Ingestro Street, Arthur Leonard was fined £5, in de*\ : .fault, 21' days' imprisonment. . :A'charge of escaping from.-the' Samaritan Homo, Aldington,, before the expiry: of the, term for which he was committed; .was preferred against .Willia'm Vincent; and ho was ■remanded to appear at Christehurch on Monday.' ■ ' J:; ■ : "' ■ "A lad of 16 was charged with _ stealing £7 from his employer,. Horace. Rudkin, at tMiramar, on Thursday.-, . An elder : brother; was charged with receiving tho money,'knowing it , to, have ,"beei\ stolen.; Sub-Inspector O'Donovan said that [lie was satisfied that tho elder brother induced the boj" , to" steal it for. 1 him. Tho former was ordered to come up for sentenco if called uptai,' and t-er was fined £3, and ordered to repay., £2 7s. of tho £7, in default, 14 days' imprisonment. ' Upon, a charge of being found without excuse on -Frederick' Barley?s, private'.premises at Taranaki , Street, John Millrie pleadedguilty, and was. romanded until Monday for sentence. ' ' . : " I> ' : •' tr ■ Joseph' Watson; alias\o'Shannessy,-;,alias Clarkson, alias Kelly, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found without,'excuse ou tho promises belonging to tho Rhodes estate at Tory Street. He- was sentenced to , sis months' imprisonment. The adjourned cases of alleged sly grogselling; and keeping liquor for sale'; against Hermann Sigurd • Pearson, j f a 1 fruiterer of Planners Street, came, before'tho-Magistrate. Mr. Wilford represented the defendant. Sergeant Rutledge stated-that, in company with Sergeant Dart, ;he;:fpund ;two; bottles of whisky on a bed in a room behind the shop. Two other bottles also found., To Mr. Wilford: Ho did not bake ; a bottle of capilla By, mistake for whisky. Jlr>; Wilford maintained that there was no such offoiico -aa keeping liquor for .sale. ..HisWorship reserved his decision, on this point.' Counsel urged mitigating circumstances, at considerable length. A fine of ,£lO, and costs 75., was imposed.-; .j" 1 . .... - V,