MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1912, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. W. G. BiddeU, S.M., presided at lbs Magistrate's Court to-day. .Charged with being idle and disorderly Jwrsons, Rose Fraser, William M'Eherney, John Shannon, and Arthur William Jas. 'Johnston were each sentenced to_ three months' imprisonment. Charged similarly, Archy Doran was sent to prison for two months. ■Penattieß of ss, 205, 405, and 'los respectively were imposed on Evelyn Butler, The*. Swarm, Terence M'Alear, and John Price for drunkenness. M'Alear was also xnade the , subject of a prohibition order. Four first-offending inebriates were 'Aealt with. Two were convicted and discharged, one was ordered to pay costs 10b, and the other was remanded for medical attention. -For indecency and for breaking the conditions of his prohibition order, Alexander Churchman was mulcted in penal; ties amounting to £6. The alternative ;wa* fourteen days' detention. ■ jPor a breachof the peace in tho Town IHail last evening, Stephen Hansen and ikoß. Iverson were fined 40s and 20s respectively. , Evidence was to tho effect that accused had a stand-up fight during the progress of the boxing contests. For failing to keep a proper overtime book, Clara Tregonning, private hotelkeeper, was penalised in the sum of 20s. A further remand until Wednesday next was granted in the case of Doherty, cnarjred with theft of a bag and. contents, ■valued at £6, the property of Jas. H. Morgan. > • Ismena Smith was made the subject of a prohibition or,der. For furious riding on the Ly&U Bay beach on tho 22nd of May last, John Phillips, was fined 10s, vfiih costs and .witnesses' expenses 235. Defendant, it appeared, galloped bis horse up and down the beach in defiance of the caretaker. On the information of Thomas Walfch, Thomas O'Neill was charged with having, on the Bth of May last, used obscene language "within the hearing of passers ty m Aro-strest. After hearing evidence, his Worship entered a conviction, imposed a fine of 40s, and ordered defendant to pay costs amounting to £3i • With resard to the language mads use ' of, his remarked that there was only one expression bordering on the obscene. Cecilia Ford, who was found in the Trocadero without lawful excuse last evening, was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. A conviction was entered against her, but sentence was deferred until to-morrow. At the Mount Cook Police Court this jnorning, before Mr. T. Bland, J.P., Harry Irwin was fined 10s, with the option of twenty-foor hours* detention, for drunkenness, and on similar charges, Arthur Mahoney and one first offender *u*re ea&Tieted and discharged.