MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3037, 26 March 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■ Mr. L. G. Iteid, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court on' Saturday. .'''.' ' :'.'.''

William Little, for whom Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared, pleaded guilty to a oh'arge or failing to make application for enrolment in the , First Division of the Reserve.. ..,/.•; ■'. -~ ' j The Magistrate said that peo'p'e] should take notice that for suoh an offence one was liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding.;-three I months, or a.fine not exceeding £50. I Defendant was convicted and fined £5. I

OTHER ,CASISS. Oliver Chittle was charged with being :an incorrigible rogue, having insufficient lawful moans,of support. Inspeotor Marsack said it was difficult to know what to do with the defendant, who had been, before the Court previously and had been shown to be not quite normal in his mind. Hβ went loafing about and nover did any work or made , any attempt to get wtitji. 1 "I'll give you a light eentence, so that you will have time, to think over thiags,". said His Worship. "A week in gaol." ; ;."■■;': , Margaret Connell was oonyicted of loitering in Clyde Quay for. an immoral purpose. She / was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. ...'. .. ! Emma Crawford,, with previous conviotions for theft and other offenoes, wae sentenced to a fortnight's imprisbnment. for stealing; a pair of lady's shoes. , •-. '..■■■" • ■■. 1 ■■;

. Charles Glistafson was fined ;li)s. for insobriety. Hβ was given the alternative of serving three days in gaol. Eva Gfell, for alike offence,;was similarly dealt with. ''. • ■ . ' In'fhe base of a young man charged with thie misappropriation of certain artioles of jewellery, the property of his employer, the Magistrate took into account the previous good character end age of tho accused, and convicted and discharged him. ,' : ,

REMANDED. . Arthur Henry Woods, charged with indeoontly BssaulWng a little girl, was remanded till Wednesday. William Arthur Bailie, charged wis> stealing a box of Havelock tobacco valued at £63 165., was remanded on bail to Wednesday also. James Cooper was remanded to the same date on a charge of receiving the above property, knowing it to have been stolen.; :■