RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 115, 18 May 1881, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

? TH» DAT. (Before Mr. Edward Shaw, B.M.)' DBUNKCNNEBS. ' George Gray, for a first offence, was fined ss. Ellen Desmond, a diminutive, elderly body, who was carried into the lock-up from Lambton Qaay last evening, was discharged ' with a caution. CHEAP TBIP TO WBLLINGTON. John Stotter, tailor, pleaded guilty to a charge of travelling in the Huia from Wangabuj to Wellington without paying his fare, and with' intent to avoid payment thereof. He said he had been drinking lately, and had come- to Wellington to obtain employment. Seeing, that the prisoner was in a very shaky condition, the Magistrate decided to remand him till Monday, being of opinion that a few days' incarceration would dohimmuohgood. ths "thobndon dovh-cotm." Fanny Preston, a woman of ill-fame, was brought- -up on a charge of using obscene language within the hearing of persona Safesing in the, neighborhood of Pipitea 'oint, Thorndon, ori the 12th inst. She was * farther charged, on remand, with having no * lawful fisible means of support, as also were -' Alice Blake and Harriet Sutoliffe. The lastnamed defendant did not appear, and Serg eant Anderson was instructed to arrest her, 'and bring her before the magistrate to- * morrow , morning. Regarding Blake, his Worship Said he had received a note from the proprietor of a steam .laundry at Newtown, who stated that she was at his place at half-past nine o'clock on Monday night, he having engaged her, and being willing to " give her a fair trial. That being so, his Worship thought the ends of 'justice would ' be met by discharging Blake with a caution. Addressing Preston, Mr. Shaw went on to say he was at first very mnoh disinclined to send her or the other women to gaol if they < could be induced to reform. Preston, how- ' ever, had not only thought fit to disregard the suggestion wh>oh fell from the •Bench the other week, and leave her sresent5 resent abode, but had also set the law at efiance, and had therefore driven him to do what he was all along disinolined to do. On , the oharge of vagrancy she was sentenced to 28 days' hard' labor, and for'using obscene language was fined 20s, or 48 hours' imprisonment, the sentenoes to run concurrently. This concluded the business.