MAGISTRATE’S COURT
Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., presided in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. John Janies Priest, a second offender for drunkenness, was convicted and discharged. For committing an indecent act, ho was fined £5, in default eeven days’ imprisonment. On a cnarg& of being an idle and disorderly person, James Cromwell was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within six months. For a second offence of drunkenness, lie was fined <£2, in default s?ven days’ imprisonment John Magee, who appeared on a charge of vagrancy, having previously been convicted for being an idle and disorderly person, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months. For being drunk, he was fined Jll, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. A remand to January 21 was granted in the case in which Harold Richardson Iferr, a young man, was charged with obtaining £3 from Hilda Voider by falsely representing that he was a friend of her husband. "
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 5
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166MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 5
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