MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Four first-offenders were convicted of drunkenness by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.. to-day. John M'Callnm and Kathleen O'Connor, who were similarly charged, were fined 20s and 8s respectively. Thomas Reeves, thirty-six times previously convicted, was sent to gaol for twenty-one days on a charge of using obsceno language. William Craig, who yesterday approached the police with a request to be locked up. us he was afraid of himself or of other people injuring him, [ was remanded a week on a charge of ' helpless drunkenness, For creating a breach of the peace, Thomas James Rimtner was fined 20s> with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. CASES AT PETONE. ' The monthly sitting of the Pefconp Magistrate's Court was held this morn- , ing, before Mr. D, G. A. Cooper. S.M. For allowing horses to wander, the following wore dealt with no under :>»» j Samuel Maxwell and Louis Fleet, fined 6s, with costs (7s); AJbctfc Charles Wright, ordered to pay costs, amounting to 7s. On a charge of failing to render ki> sonal service under tho Defence Act. Archibald Scott was convicted and «•« • dered to pay Court costs (7s). In >he adjourned case of A. H. Alexan ,i$ similarly charged, evidence was taken ns to the sending out of parade notices. After listening to lengthy argument, the Magistrate fined Alexander 10s, with costs (98). Default was ti.\ed at fortyeight hours' military detention. A prohibition order wttk issued against T. Round. In a judgment summons case, Joon Cotton v. George Simmons, a claim far £6 6s 6d, defendant was ordered to liquidate the debt by 3rd June, in dot fault to sovve seven days in gaol,