MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court od Saturday. For insobriety James Ward, against whom there were four previous convictions, was sent to gaol for a period or three months. One first offender, who failed to appear, had his bail or JUs. estreated. , , James Register, alias Stevens, pleaded guilty to the theft of an umbrella, value 7s, 6d., the property of some person or persons unknown. The accused was arrested in Courtenay Place, and ivhen asked where he got tho umbrella from he told the constable that it was his business to find out. There was a long list of convictions against the man for similar offences. According to the police he makes a praotico of stealing goods from shop doors and pawning or selling them to second-hand dealers, tie was sentenced to three months Im'iirisonmont. ? .- A jemanA for a week was granted in tho ease of John Howie Chappell, charged with leaving his wife on {September 1, 1917, at Torrinsville, South Australia, without adequate means ot support. __________
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 7
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173MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 7
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