MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with police cases at the Magistrate's Court to-day. For insobriety, four first offenders were dealt with in the usual manner.

Thomas Elliott, who did not appear, was fined the amount of his bail, £1, for insobriety, and James Casey, who had become' wildly excited and obstreperous in a boardinghouso in Willis-street, was fined 5s for drunkenness, £2 for his wild behaviour, aW was ordered to pay for a new mirror and a window pane to take the place of those he had broken, a matter of £3 and also to pay 12s witnesses' expenses. Daniel Clark Hay, who had previously pleaded guilty to four charges of theft from two hotels, one in the city and the other at Petone, and to being on the premises of the New Commercial Hotel during prohibited hours without lawful excuse, was'called up for sentence. In view of the fact that all the offences wero committed on the same date, at a time when accused was under the influence of liquor, the Magistrate decided to admit the man to probation for a period of two years on the first charge, and to impose fines totalling £15, in default, a month in gaol, on the other three charges of theft. Cn the charge, of being on licensed premises during prohibited hours the man was convicted and discharged. Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell appeared for the defence.