MAGISTRATES COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 68, 21 March 1914, Page 6

MAGISTRATES COURT

To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. D. G. A: Cooper, S.M. For drunkenness. Alexander Harrison was fined 10s, with the alternative of 43 hours' imprisonment, and Peter Mulcahy was lined £1, penalty for default being, fixed at seven days' incarceration. John Hyde, a prohibited person, was fined £1, with the option of fourteen days' imprisonment. Enrico Monetti, a native of Italy, denied having assaulted William Henry Trengrove, a motor expert. Complainant's story was that tho defendant had broken a window in a motor-car belonging to him. The previous day, when witiiess went to collect the amount (10s 6d) of the damage, the accused offered to pay 6s, then Bs, then 9s, and finally placed 10s in complainant's hand, at the same time striking him on the face. The defence was that the accused was gesticulating and one of his hands accidentally struck complaint, Ernest William Trengrove, son of complainant, swore that he saw defendant strike his father with his clenched fist. The Magistrate convicted defendant and fined him 10s, with costs. Mary P>nvn, alia* Mary Jane Barry, pleaded not. guilty to a. charge of the theft uf a sovereign from .James Aijhby, a. wharf labourer. The evidence against the accused was that while about to treat her to a. drink in the Cricketers' Aram Hotel, the complainant dropped a sover-' eign on the flow. Thereupon the woman put her foot on it and lefused lo budge. The polire wero called in. and on their arrival the sovereign was found on a. ledge near the accused. The accused, who pleadpd not guilty, was convicted, tuid sent lo gaol for seven days. Charged with being an idle and disorderly perpon. Michael James Nash wa?. on his own application, remanded till next Friday. Bail was allowed in the sum of £10"

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