MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. John George, for drunkenness, was fined 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment. He had three previous convictions against him. Michael Martin (a statutory third offender), .for insobriety, was fined 20s, with the option of three days' imprisonment. Four first-offenders were also dealt with. Mary M'Kegney, well known in the Police Courts of the Dominion, was. remanded for a week's medical treatment necessi- | tated by drunkenness.. Robert M'Clure was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness, and for assaulting Constable Brennan while in the execution of his duty was fined 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment. Constable Brennan's evidence was to the effect that he found M'Clure in Cuba-street in a state of drunkenness and arrested him. While on the ■ way to the police station the offender used filthy language and then thumped the constable on the side of the face. | Joseph Thurston, a duly articled seaman, charged with having unlawfully absented himself from the Kia Ora, was remanded until 10th January. Ernest Marsh and William James Smith, who started a mild bratvl in Manners-street, were charged with using threatening behaviour, whereby a breach of' the peace was occasioned. Smith, who alleged that Marsh struck liim first, was convicted and discharged, and Marsh was fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours in gaol. On a charge of helpless drunkenness Horace George Butter was convicted and ordered to pay 17s fid medical expenses. Elizabeth Rutter. his wife, applied for a separation order against him, and this was granted. She was also given the custody of the three children.