MAGISTRATE'S COURT
To-day being a Government holiday, there was - only a short sitting of the Magistrate's, Court. ■■' Messrs. R. D. Hanlon and I. Salek presided. Several weelc-end inebriates, most of whom were I first offenders, were dealt with. Annabells Swanson, who had previously offended on divers occasions, was fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight liouts in gaol, and Thomas O'Brien and Alfred Harris were each' penalised in. the sum 0f.205, with the option of remaining in gaol for forty-eight hours. Bernard Kromen, who was found helplessly drunk lit Carterton, was ordered to pay 23s medical expenses, or undergo forty-eight hours' detention. ' A youth named Albert Gerald Blanchfield admitted committing a grossly indecent act in Tory-street on Saturday night. 'He was severely censured by the Bench, which imposed a penalty of 20s, I with the alternative of forty-eight hours' detention. On four charges of wilful and indecent exposure, AJfred Henry Lawrence, aged forty-three, was remanded till Wednesday. '- The v itse of obscene language in Tuistreet cost Frederick' Wallace 20a, or forty.-^ight 1. hours'- imprisonment, •■
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 2
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174MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 2
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