MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. D.- G. A. Cooper, S.M. Violet Paton, not long discharged from gaol for a similar offence, pleaded guilty to a charge of importuning, and was sent back to prison for one month. Five first-offending inebriates were dealt with as usual, and Michael Allen was fined 20s, in default three days in gaol. John O'Neill and Joseph Thomas Barrett were each fined' 4os, in. default seven days in gaol. Two well-built men, Alfred Stokes and Robert Down, were charged with being rogues and vagabonds, in that they were found early on Sunday morning sleeping in a railway carriage at the Thorndon yard. The police asserted that neither had done any work for a long time, and simply loafed round hotels. They were both sent to a place wheie they will have to work hal'd foi' one month at least. A young man named Cecil George Farrow, arrested by Constable M'Holm, was charged with the theft of £7 10s in moneys from the Lyttelton Borough Council. He was remanded to appear at Lyttelton on Monday. Francis M'Cluskey, who had a record of convictions in other centres, pleaded guilty to the theft of five bottles of stout from a city store. He was sentenced to fourteen, days' hard labour. On remand, Joseph John Johnston was again charged with altering a cheque at Kawhia . so as to make the document read £15 5s instead of £5 ss. He was remanded to appear at Hamilton on Friday next. As the result of a "scene " on Lamb-ton-quay John Shann was charged with drunkenness and resisting arrest. For the minor Offence he was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours in gaol, and dn the other charge 40s, or seven days in custody. Cecil Bullot, several times remanded on a charge of theft of jewellery and money from Ernest Ching, came up for sentence. His Worship said that the Probation Officer's report was not altogether satisfactory, and there was also the additional fact that accused refused to give information as to the whereabouts of & missing ring. A sentence of one month's imprisonment waa imposed. Patrick Williams was adjudged to be the father of a-n illegitimate child and ordered to pay 7s 6d weekly towards its maintenance. For failing to comply with a maintenance order George R. Watts Was sentenced to three days' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended, on i>avment of 5s 6d weekly.