MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Three first offending inebriates appeared before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. They were all convicted and discharged, and two of them who wore khaki were ordered to be handed over to the military authorities. John Gouzier, George Traill, and Edward Robinson, previously convicted, were each find 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours' detention. Patrick Ryan, alias Banks, charged with begging in Courtenay-place, was described by Inspector Hcndrey as a "waster." He had just come out of gaol after serving a sentence of two months, and lie was sent back for threo months. Two men wearing khaki, named Frederick Augustus Armitageand Sydney Robert Cross, were charged with having stolen a military overcoat, the property of the New Zealand Government. The overcoat had been issued to Armitage, and after tin' buttons had been removed the men sold it to another man in the Terminus Hotel for 10s. Both men were given bad characters by the police. Armitage was sentenced to two months* imprisonment and Cross to one month's.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 133, 2 December 1915, Page 8
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175MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 133, 2 December 1915, Page 8
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