MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 108, 30 May 1885, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Dat. (Before Mr. H. S. Wardell, 8.M.) FAIR BUT FRAIL. Emily England pleaded Guilty to a charge of having been drunk and disorderly in Manners-street at 11 o'olook last night. Constable Gleeson gavo evidence in support of the charge. His Worship imposed a fine of 20s. IiAROINT. Rebecca M'Loughlin was ohargod with the tbeft of two dreasos and a shawl belonging to Janet Craig. Bhe denied the chargu. The prosecutrix, an elderly woman, deposed that rhe missed one of the dresses and the shawl on the 22nd, and the other dress she miasod on Thursday last. Subsequently she found tho dresses in a pawn Bhop. The articles woro in a box in hor house before they were taken, away. Alfred Dimant. assistant in Isen's pawnbrokiog establishment. Cuba-street, stated that a dross and a shawl woro put in pawn by tho nnoused, on the 22nd, while on Thursday laat a littlo boy went to the shop with a note from aoousod, asking him to tike in another dross. Deteotive Cnrjstal deposed to tho arrest of tho accused, who told hint that it was Mrd. Craig horaolf who had pawned the things. Aoonsed stated that sho had signed tho nots to the pawnbroker at tho request of Mrs. Craig, who had boon her lodger. His Worship said he was sorry to find that accused, whom ho had known as one of tho smartest and most rospeotable womon in the country, was pursuing a downward oouroe since the doath of her hasband. Cathorino Hand was called for tho defence, but hor evidence was not material. Aoousod was romandod for soven days. Catherine Hand was brought up on a charge o( having stolen a chemise, a shirt, and two pillow-slips belonging to Janet Craig. £ne admitted having pawned the artioies, but said she had done so at the request of Mrs. M'Longhlin, the accused in the last oa-o. His Worship dismissed the information. TItK FIfInBRIES ACT. Thomas Clorridge was ohargod with having committed a broach of the Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884, by having in his poßsesfiion on tho 24th instant nino floandora oaqh less than nino inohos long. He admitted the offonco, but pleadod ignorance of the law. Ha said ho did not intend, to Bell the fish. His Worship— That doesn't matter. Inspector Goodall stated that Constable Dnnoan had oironlated copies of tho Act amongst tha flshermon of Porirua. His Worship imposed a fine of 20s and costs.