MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

| * To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. W. G. ! Riddel], S.M. Jane Walsh was declared an habitual drunkard, mad 6 the subject of r, prohibition order, and sentenced to twenty-one days' detention. Another habitual inebriate — Edith Horne — admitted a breach of her prohibition order, and was fined £2, with a seven days' option. She was convicted and di»jcharged for drunk«mess. Ten previous convictions — including three for breaking prohibition — stood against Frances Martin, who was mulcted ;n; n a penaltj* oi £3 for ignoring the mjonction to abstain ; she was convicted and discharged ; for drunkenness. Five persons, on tht> I occasion of their first lapse "into inso- ! briety, were dealt with. "You seem to have a mania for stealj ing books," taid lL» rnjigiEtrate to an old man named Samuel Fabey Dunning, who had admitted stealing a book I valued at 2s, the property ot the Wei- | lington Sailors' Rest Committee. De- | fendant had been observed by Constable Dempsey at the tramway waiting-ehed opposite Ihe Post Office yesterday ; at tight of the con3table, Dunning ran away, and stuffed tho book under' his coat. He was caught, however, and j could give no satisfactory explanation, j There v/ere seven previous convictions j for theft against the man, and he hod j previously stolen bocks from the Sailors' R*st. He was fined £2, in default, ordered to spend fourteen days in gaol. I