MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M. ; dealt with police cases, at. the Magistrate's Court this ■morning. ■ ' ; Minnie Brown, who' had been twice previously convicted of drunkenness within the past six months, was again convicted and ordered to pay a fine o£ £1, or to go to gaol for 48 hours. Jeremiah Brosnahan, a man who has been making a nuisance of himself in the city for.some time by accosting persons in the street, was convicted as a rogue and vagabond without sufficient lawful means of support, and was'sent to gaol for three months. " l. Joseph Barker was fined 5s for drunkI enness, a-nd £2 for having used obscene language, in Mariners-street. : Louis Harold Gill, a youth, who ha-d been admitted to probation following his conviction on a'charge of forgery heard, during the January session of the SuI premei Court, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a suit of clothes, a watch, chain, and pendant, of a total value of £8, from a boardinghouse at Masterton. The Magistrate remarked that the young man had had his" chance, but had not availed himself of it. A sentence of not More than two years' reformative treatment was imposed^ As a. sequel to a^fcollision in Kilbirnie last. nWit between a motor car and a tramcar, the driver of the motor car (M'Laven) was charged with having been drank while in charge of the cax, and was fined £2, and costs.