MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 75, 31 March 1910, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

« POLICE CASES. William James Shaw, a seaman belonging to the -s.s. Cornwall, returned on board yesterday and created a disturbance. He refused to obey the commands of the chief officer, and used obsceno language. For disobedience he was fined by Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M. in the Magistrate's Court to-day, in the amount of two days' pay, in default a couple of days' imprisonment. He was also fined £5 for obscenity, the option being one month's imprisonment. A charge of assaulting Shaw was preferred against the chief cook of tho Cornwall, William Mallinson. The magistrate dismissed the information. Since the beginning of the vca.i Joseph Gibbon has been convicted" six times for intemperance. To-day he was again charged with drunkenness, and with procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order.. A sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed in one case, and in the other the inebriate vrat convicted and discharged. Florence Prosser, alias Ruby Kirk, had been thrice previously convicted for insobriety. Sho wa* sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment on a similar charge. Another inebriate — Thomas Cooper — was fined ss. The alternative was 24 hours' imprisonment. Five other individuals — all charged with having been drunk— were dealt with m frit offender*.