MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

At to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court three lirst-offendinsv inebriates, who did not appear, had their bail of 10s estreated. .' Fetor Patrick Hughes, who had two previous convictions for drunkenness, was fined 20s. in default orde..^.j K> spend three days in gaol. Erchard Harris, who appeared bofora Lie OouH yesterday, pleaded guilty to acoihor oha-rge to-day, and v;as hsed 10f, with the usual alternative.

Frederick Sherman was called upon to answer four ehargos: (1) committing an indecent act; (2) using obsccno .la*igiis,ss ; (3) and (4) wilfully dnmc;j:J)s nroper'.y valued 3 .t 17s <xl. To the major" charges he pleaded not guilty. "I bavo been in the country for iwo weeks only," he s»kl, '>n<l never in my life have I dorm anything like this." The indecent act cost him a. iine cf 40s, with the alternative of ssjyen days' imprisonment, the ''language." £3 or 14 clayr., and he was also ordered to make jjood the damage. G?orce Henry Parkinson ploaced guilty to oofca-.ning liquor during the currency of his prohibition order. He was Gned '20s, with court costs 7s, with, t'co a!«jrnaiivi; of three days in custody. He »\as aiven a -.veek in which to find the rampy."

Josephine Smith, who made 'her first appearance in Court, pleaded jrmHy to using indcsetiS "language witlun i.hn hearing of 'mssers-by m Auelaide-road. She was leniently dealt with, being coimotod and ordered to come up tor sonk-nce wi>»n called upon. ■

For leaving; a motor-bike apfi sklc-ca-unattended in^ a public strss';, Wi.'-iis;'!. Oemmel was fined ss, with costs 7s George Howard was fined 10s for failing to have a. tail 'light attached to lijs motor-car.

E. T. Taylor and Co. ware lined s:<. with costs, for a breach of the vphicu'nr bylaws. Th« name of thn Q;-.»i had not been "legibly and permanently" olacctl on the side of a hand cart.

Thomas Prinze *»i StWil fs, with cost? for leaving a dustbin on the foot-pail! (■:; I-imbon-quiiy.

.'James Walker, for allowing a, horse io wander, was lined ss, with costs 14=.