MAGISTRATE’S COURT
POLICE, CIVIL AND BY-LAW CASES GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE “This man wants to marry her and take her away into the country. I propose to give her another chance.” So said Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, with reference to Cecilia Parkinson, who appeared on charges of insobriety, vagrancy, and causing damage to the extent of 12s. Cd. She was convicted and discharged for insobriety and ordered to make good tho damage. On the charge of vagrancy she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. Charged with the theft of £392 Os. 7d. while trustee, of the estate of the late Thomas Purdy Cooke, a young man named Hubert Stanley Harrison was remanded to appear at Auckland on Tuesday next. A remand until August 29 was granted in the case of two young labourers, Francis Alexander Miller and Sydney Alfred Bennett, alias Lockwood, who were charged with the theft of a City Corporation motor-car valued at £l5O.
With three previous convictions for insobriety, Peter Singleton was, for a fourth lapse, fined £3, with the option of going to gaol for seven days, and was made the subject of a prohibition drder.
James Warren Williams, who sold a handcart he had borrowed from a nephew, pleaded that dr nk was his failing. He was remanded until today for sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 3
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