MAGISTRATES COURT
*~ To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was predicted over by Mr. D. O A. Cooper, ft.M. For drunkenness. Rose Fraser and Mary Johnston were each fined J3l, with the alternative of seven clays' imprisonment. Charged with importuning, Jane Schaare was fined £1, with the option of one month's imprisonment. Joseph Johnson, against whom there were a number of previous convictions, was sent to gjaol for seven days for stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 15s, the property of Woolf Schwartz, draper. Norman M'Phee was 'fined JDI, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment for a bleach of a prohibition order. The accused was also convicted and discharged . for di'uukchtieds'. The first offence was committed on the 10th May, 1913. Apparently the accused got to hear that a summons was out' against hint, aa about that time he left the Dominion, returning recently.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 8
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145MAGISTRATES COURT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 8
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