MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

■ There was a comparatively sho.v .^ . "Mat" at ,to-day'« sitting of the Magistrate's Court, over which Mr. W. G. Siddeil, S.M., presided. Three first- , offending inebriates received lenient treatment, while Knudt Olsen and John Wynn, both of whom admitted previous convictions, were each fined 10s, with the alternative of remaining in gaol fok twenty-four hours. Daniel Eeave, whose infectious optimism and irrepressible, [ ■ smile mark him as unique, appeared any- ■ thing but offended -when the clerk asked him to 'plead in respect of a charge o£ drunkenness. "Fined 40s, or seven days'' imprisonment," announced'the Magistrate, and-the. inveterate optimist smiled 7i ■again at the prospect. .. ..' .... .; Arising out of an incident in Courte-nay-place yesterdayj Harold Wilson and Norman Ellis appeared'to answer charges of using obscene language..-: Both were fined 40s, with the option of • remaining in gaol for seven days. .. •'. Katherine Mary Smith denied loitering; in Tory-street for the' pnrpose of prostitution, but the evidence of the. police was against her; She was sent; to gaol for one month. . .