MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

■» Mary Wilson, for drunkenness, was, before Mr. Riddell, S.M., to-day, penalised to the extent of 20s "with an option of seven days' imprisonment. Two first offending inebriates were each fined 5s with the usual alternative. Another had to be remanded for a week for curative treatment. Elizabeth Allison Woods, appearing after & .week's remand, was convicted of insobriety and ordered to pay 17s 6d ■ medical expenses, in default to undergo seven clays' imprisonment. A penalty of 10s, with 48 hours' option, was imposed on Amy Murphy for drnnkenness. Mary M'Kegney, charged with inebiiety, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and a prohibition order is to be issued against her; for using indecent language in Willis-street she was ordered to undergo fourteen days' imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent. A young woman named Ethel Florence Guilford, for whore Mr. 11. Buddie appeared, admitted having stolen £9 2s 6d in cash, the property of Molly Black. According to the chief-detective,, complainant and accused occupied a room together in a house where the/ were employed as waitresses. Miss Black put the £9 2s 6d in an unlocked box in her room, and during her absence on Thursday accused abstracted the cash, took it to the house of an acquaintance at Kilbirnio, and there "planted" the money outside. Yesterday she admitted the theft to Detective Kemp, who accompanied accused to the place where it was buried. Mr. Buddie submitted that complainant had been constantly "bragging" to accused that she had the money, and that the latter's temptation was thus accentuated. Her employers were willing to take her back, and the whole of the money had been rebtored. His Worship admonished defendant on her conduct, and entered a conviction, and ordered her to come up for sentence whoii called upon A plea of not guilty was tendered by Ethel Parker, charged with the theft, on Blh August, of a diamond ring valued at £5, the property of Charles Franks. Arising out of the same charge was another information against Herbert Parker that he received a gentleman's diamond ring, valued at £5, well knowing that it was stolen property. Parker pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Broberg asked for a remand of both defendants till Wednesday next, and hie Worship acceded. An old man named John Mansfield admitted having stolen a pair of scissors, valued at 50sj the property of Saul Anstell. The police gave Mansfield a bad character, as a notorious cadger and thief. He had been before the court on ' sixty-four previous occasions, including thirteen for theft. He had sold the scissors for 2s 6d. Mansfield was convicted, and sentenced to a rponth'B imprisonment, the scissors to bo returned to their owner on payment of 2s 6d to. i the gerson who, received, them.