MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases were dealt with by Mr. F V Frazer, S.M., this inormng. For insobriety, two first-offending inebriates were each fined 10a, the amount of the bail , allowed them. William Eoyea was convicted and discharged for helpless drunkenness, and was ordered >to pay 17s 6d, medical expeiises, or, as an alternative, tq go to gaol for a week. A prohibition order was also issued against -him. •■ •■ --'.!.■■■)■■ -^ -

■A'se.afaring man nanied Isaac 'Fawcett pleaded guilty ito charges pf drunkenness, resisting Constable Ryan, damaging a pair of uniform trousers, valued at 25s, r ,the propei'ty of the New Zealand Government,.; and. damagingl a' motor car, the property .of: James Aldred, to the extent of £1, and using obscenp language. Police evidence was tp the effect that, Fawcett • gave . a great deal of trouble by struggling violently in the street, and eventually had to be conveyed to the station in. a. motor car. • He was ordered to make good the damage/and on the other charges was sentenced to fourteen days', imprisonment. Evidence will be heard on 9th October in regard to a more serious charge against Fawcett, of assaulting James Loftusi on 24th September and robbing him of £2.