MAGISTRATES COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1910, Page 8

MAGISTRATES COURT.

— * Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Cissy Knight was charged with being a common prostitute and importuning. She pleaded guilty. To a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, defendant pleaded not guilty. As Knight agreed to go to the Salvation Home for six months, she was merely convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on each charge. , Minnie Brown pleaded guilty to having used obscene language in public. There were two previous convictions for a similar offence. ' A fine of £4 was imposed. Default was fixed at 21 days' imprisonment. A fh'st-ofliender — charged with inebriety — who -did not appear, was fined 10s. John Gill, for a like offence, was mulct, in a penalty of 20s, with the option of seven days in gaol. Another first-offender similarly charged, was fined 10s, with the usual default. Charged with having committed a grossly indecent act, Wm. Gaskin, who did not appear, was fined £5, with the alternative of 14 days in gaol. Pleas of guilty were entered by John William Lucas to several charges of petty theft of brass weights, jug, and a bicycle lamp.- Lucas, who pleaded drink as an excuse, luid several previous convictions for dishonesty. Sentences of three months, one month, and a month respectively were imposed, to run concurrently. A prohibition order was issued against accused. An elderly man, Matthew E. Pickering, charged with being a rogue and vagabond, was sent to the Ohiro Home for -six months. • James Shand Kelly was ordered to pay", .medical expenses — £1 18s 6d — incurred in connection with his overindidgence in liquor at Featherston. Default was fixed at seven days in gaol. "Not girilty," replied Henry James Wren, when charged with the theft of an overcoat. He was apprehended when walking away with the coat. SubInspector- 'Norwood said Wren was a well-known "thief. A sentence of two months in _gaol was inflicted for the theft, and on a charge of resisting arrest, 14 days', terms to run concurrently. A month's imprisonment was served out to Frank Hodgson, charged with disobedience of an order to maintain his illegitimate child. John William Leslie was charged with disobedience of an order to maintain his wife and two children. Arrears ,were set down at £12. Defendant was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, warrant to be suspended so long as 10s per week is paid. As defendant had already spent some time in gaol, arrears were reduced to £6. Spencer Purefoy Franklyn was ordered to pay 68 per week towards the support of his illegitimate child, and to pay costs amounting to £8 Bs. Mr. Dunn appeared for complainant. Prohibition orders were granted against David Robert Cowan and George Thomas Smith.