MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

«» ¦¦ ¦ Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the 'Magistrate's Court. A seventh conviction was recordedagainst Leyshon Williams, charged withi drunkenness, and he was fined 10s. with a forty-eight hours' option. Half a dozen persons, on the occasion of their first indulgence to excess, were leniently i dealt "witji. ! Roes Taylor admitted having been • drunk, but declared h& knew absolutely nothing about the theft of a swag, valued at 40s, the property of some person unknown. Sub-lnspectw Norwood stated that the man was arrested at 1 a.m. to-day, with the swag in his possession, and he could give po satisfactory account as to how he obtained it. The swag was reported, to be owned by a maa named Brown. Taylor was remanded till Monday. Of William Barker, charged with insobriety, it was reported that he was in a bad way with delirium tremens, and unfit to appear. He was accordingly remanded, for a week's curative treatment. ' An information charging Archibald Cooper with threatening behaviour and a breach of the peace in Vivianrsireet was dismissed. Defendant had been arrested jointly Avith William Patrick Dowling, who was yesterday fined for the offence, and who, according to Ccoper, had attacked the latter without provocation. Mr. D. Jackson appeared ior Cooper. Robert Gordon and Walter Thomas Miles were jointly charged with having attempted to steal the sum of £3 in money, the property of Fook Yem, a Chinese fruiterer in Molesworth-street. Each denied, the allegation. Gordon was further charged, with having assaulted a Chinese youth named She Chong, also with drunkenness; while Miles admitted charges of intoxication and breach of his prohibition order. The evidence of two Chinese showed that defendants went to the fruiterers' shop, and helped themselves to plums, the youth ' Cnong being in charge. While Gordon hit the lad over the mouth, Miles attempted to wrench open tie till tinder the counter, bat. a spring prevented him. Gordon said he -was so drunk that ' he remembered nothing about the affair. Defendants were fruit-liawkers, and each had a number of previous convictions for various offences. Miles was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and fined 40s, with a seven days' option, for breaking prohibition. For the assault Gordon •was punished in the sum of £2, penalty for default being fixed at fourteen days in gaol; he was also convicted and discharged for insobriety. On the charge of attempted theft each was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.