MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 197, 9 May 1918, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's •Court was presided over by Mr. S. E, M'Carthy, S.M. For drunkenness, Donald M'Donald, who.had three provious convictions, was sent to. gaol for a month. George Anderson Miller, similarly charged, was fined £2, with the option of fourteen days' imprisonment. Two seamen, John Joseph Loftns and Eimar Elissan, who had engaged in a stand-up fight, were fined 405., or in tho alternative wore ordered to undergo sevon days' imprisonment. Two first offenders were fined 10s. Charged with indecent assault, Henry Williamson was remanded to appear a : t Woodvillo on May 10. Nancy Cecil Rayner, a young married woman, admitted tho offence of having obtained goods at Auckland by means of false pretences. Inspector Marsack elated that tho accused had secured over £7 worth of clothing and J!M6'3. worth of other goods from train in Auckland by alleging that she was a daughter of ono of tTieir customers. In (taking for lonienoy, Mr. H. P. O'Lenry said that ■ acousod 'was n young married woman whoso husband was in camp. She had got the goods in order to be near her husband in Wellington, "he military pay received by her husband was not sufficient to onable him to provide her with the odds and ends she .had dishonestly obtained. She was now omployed in Wellington, and would make restitution. Tho accused was convicted and ordorod to como up for sontenco when called upon, conditionally upon her refunding the money and reporting onoo a month to the probation officer. A fine of 355., tho cost of ourativo treatment, was imposed on Frederick Simiss, on a charge of being drunk while in the' charge of a motor-oar. The nlternativo was fixed at three weeks' impris--onmont. According to Inspector Marsack, tho accused was recently before tho Supremo Court at Christchurch, whore ho was convicted and ordered to como up for sentenco when called upon. Hβ had now forfeited his liberty, and would be brought beforo the Supreme Court for sentence. The car which landed him in trouble at Wellington was not his own, and it was his habit of running off with other people's automobiles which had resulted in his appearance before tho Court in Christchurch.