MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

o Mr. D. G. A. Cooper. S.M., presided at to-day's sitting, of the Magistrate's Court. Amy Murphy did not answer when her name' was called. She was charged with drunkenness, and her bail of 10s was estreated. Phillip Henry, Merryweather, who was arrested on Queen's Wharf for insobriety, was fined £2, in default ordered to spend fourteen, days in gaol. William Dennehy was fined 10s, or ordered to go to gaol for forty-eight hours. Eight first offenders received lenient treatment. Bartholomew Mahoney, a 'prohibited peison, w,u charged with entering tho Hotel Cecil during, the currency of the order, and was fined £1, the alternative being fixed at seven days' imprisonment. He was ordered to pay Court costs (7s). Rose Anderson prosecuted William J. Anderson and Walter Herbert Anderson for failing to contribute towards the suppoit of their mother. Both stated their willingness to pay their share, but made it plain that they could not bo expected to give very much. Tho first-mentioned defendant was ordered to pay 10s pur week, and the brother, who is married, half that amount. Albert' Saundcrs was arraigned on three charges, and pleaded mot guilty. On each, however, he was convicted. For assaulting Lottie Saunders, his sis-ter-ia-law, he was fined £1, in default seven days in gaol. For the use of obKcene language, he was fined £2, and for the theft of two blankets he was mulcted in a penalty of 10b. 'hi respect of the last two charges, the alternatives wero fixed at one month's and three dayb' imprisonment respectively.' George Gray denied a charge that ho (icctfinpatiied Mury Barclay into the Cricketers' Arms Hotel knowing that she was a prohibited person. His Worship gave him tlie benefit of the doubt and dismissed the information. Charles Henry O'Loughlin was convicted and fined 10s for drunkenness. An application to have him sent to Roto Roa for twelve months was also considered. The Magis-' trate agreed to withhold the order providing O'Louehlin behaves himself in the future.