MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1920, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

An unusually long list of police and summons cases was placed before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning.

For a third offence ■of drunkenness Susan M'Laughlin was lined . 20s, ■with the, alternative of 48 hours in gaol.

Evelyn Barr was convicted as a rogue and a vagabond, and was c-i'd&red to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months, and to abstain from liquor for a year. She had been found sleeping in the basement of the Maost Brothers' "School in Hawkestonesbreet.'

A- waterside worker, William M*Kay, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having stolen three bottles of brandy and a bottle of lime juice, valued at £1 9s, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company. The evidence was to the effect that t)ie liquor had been removed from the bar of the steamship Mapourika, presumably through a • porthole, near which accused was working while coaling the vessel from a hulk. A conviction was entered, and M'Ka-y was fined £10, with the choice of a month in gaol. He was also fined Ss for .drunkenness. •

The hearing of the two charges laid by the police against F. R. Perera on informations alleging that he had exercised spiritualism was further adjourned till Tuesday.

Two young men, A, Langton and E. •Wynne, explained when charged with having broken the anti-shouting regulations that ■ Ihey had believed the War Regulations were no longer . in force. Each was fined 10s, with 7s costs.

For failing to attend Territorial or Senior Cadet parades, W. J. H. Brown and W. Fyfe were each fined £5 and 7s costs, F. W. Perrett, J. B. R. Mason, and R. Moynihan were fined £2 and costs,'D. F. Haggerty was fined 30s and costs, R. N. Bnydeh and K. B. Jamieson were fined £1 and costs, T. E. Loamy was fined 15s and costs, and A. E. Cooper and A. E. Dowthwaite were each fined 10s and 7s costs. B. Hickling was fined £2 10s' and costs for having failed to register.

Henry Thomas Hendvick was fined 10s for drunkenness and £5 for having used obscene, language., Alfred Simmons was convicted on similar charges, and was ordered to pay fines of Ss and £5, and he was also convicted on a charge of having wilfully damaged a constable's helmet by knocking it off and putting his foot' 1 through it. On the latter charge he was fined £2-and ordered to pay 13s 6d for the damage.

F. Dobson, licensee of the Clarendon Hotel, was ■ fined £1 and 7s costs for having, within the meaning of the law, sold liquor to an intoxicated . person, through the agency of a barmaid, who has already been penalised.

Stanley Duncan Weaver, charged with the theft of a wallet, a spade guinea, and a cheque for £1, the property of Frederick Gilbert Reeves, was .remanded to appear on Wednesday. Bail was fixed at £25, with sureties of like amount.

A youth named Noel Frederick Elvy was fined 5s for drunkenness, and, with the alternative of 21 days in gaol, was fined £10 for having committed, an : indecent act in Manners-street. He. was fined* a further £5, with the choice of 14 days in gaol, for having made use of obscene language. The case was a badl one, sa-id the Magistrate, but he would extend leniency on account of the youth.fulness of the accused, and the fact that his previous record had been good. William Reid was fined £1 and 10s costs for having mad© use of obsceue language.. There were certain extenuating circumstances in this case. W. R. Morse, licensee of the Clydequay Hotel, was fined £10 and costs, for having committed a breach of the Licensing Act by exposing liquor for sale on a Sunday. The case arose out of a former prosecution of a young man who was found in trie bar of the hotel on Sunday morning, some months a,go. Mr. HF. O'Leary, for the defence, protested against' the delay in bringing the- case, for, he contended, 'had both actions been considered together, the Magistrate would have had the full facts before him, whereas under the present conditions it was a difficult matter to obtain the full evidence.

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