MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 100, 25 October 1916, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■ , <&■ . — A short sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held 'to-day before Mr. L. ft. Reid, S.M., when, two first-offending inebriates were . leniently dealt with. Amelia Berry, alias Arrowsmith, who had been previously convicted . for drunkenness, was again coavicted, but on the- understanding that she consented to a prohibition order no penalty was imposed. Lilian Playter was also given another chance to redeem herself. A well-known figure in the precincts of the Couvt named Emma Crawford admitted two charges of theft. Bent on replenishing her wardrobe and at the same time practising true war economy, Crawford went to, the shop of Mark Jacobs and helped herself to some useful ladies' underwear valued at 3s lid. She also visited Hannah and Co.'s establishment, where some dainty footwear proved extremely enticing. Unfortunately for herself she had failed to notice a watchful detective, and it was this lack of strategy that was responsible for her appearance before the Magistrate. Inspector Hendroy informed the Court that Crawford had been convicted 35 times previously, and five of those, convictions were for theft. Crawford accepted the Magistrate's decision—one month's impiisonmen't—with her usual equanimity A soldier named Joseph Flannagan was fined 20s, with the alternative of serving seven days' imprisonment, for using obscene language in Willis-street, while for drunkenness and resisting Constable Gainoy while in the execution of his duty •Uio defendant was convicted and ordered to be handed over to the military authorities. As the result of a disturbance, in Cuba-street yesterday, James Joseph Randall and Thomas Bourke were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk. Ench was fined 10s, with the alternative of serving three days in gaol. A further remand till to-morrow was granted in the case of Richard Hacking, Edward Lines, and John Wren, charged with stealing 'three dozen boxes of wax vestas, valued at la 6d, from the isteamor Kik«ji k»«i «•<"" <Ule»y,ed as before.