MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with police and summons cases at the Magistrate's Court to-day. ' '. ' .John Flanagan, was convicted on ?■ charge of a' fourth offence of drunkenness within the statutory period of .six months, and was given the option of paying'a. fine of £1 or going to gaol for three days. Two youths, D. Hickey and L. Lamberg, ;who had thrown stones at a house at Ly.'all Bay and had done some damage to the roof, were each convicted and. ordered to pay fines and costs amounting to £2 6s.

A young man named W. J. Boyce was convicted upon a charge -of having com-mitted-a.-breach of the .-peace, but. as there were extenuating.circumßtances he was merely^ called upon'to': pay Court

COStS.. -..■ .- " ■:"■ -. .'■'■" ■■'•'..■ :.;.Thre.e;!;mpn-f<Jeorge Browne, A. M. Carroll",-and-B. Bor.ner—were each fined Sl', with costs, for , having created, a breach of the peace in Kent-terrace.

H. Hefferon, a Jbarman at the Albion iHoteltWvas.'charged with. having permitted shouting, but the information was dismissed, as the Magistrate considered that, as the two men concerned in the shouting each had money before ' him, thebarmMwould not be-in a position to know, that ■ one man- had placed both sums upon the bar. '„ ..'

. Arthur Wheatley, land agent, was convicted, and ordered to paY a fine of £3 arid costs, for an offence of threatening behaviour. The trouble arose out of a dispute in, the street between J. B. Harcourt, anqther. land agent, and .Wheatley over statements of account. Hareourt held that an unprovoked assault had beeji committed,-' but the defendant said -. that x Harcourt had threatened him vrith'Ja. walking-stick, and he had pushed him'aside in self-defence. -A Chinaman named Young Pat was proceeded against by the S.P.C.A. on a charge of having ill-treated a horse by-driving-it while- it.'waErsuffering irbm a ,deep-seaEed corn in one .foot,- but, he denied that he had; noticed any lameness prior to the day on he had been stopped by Inspector Henry. The borso had been apparently sound when taken out that day, but developed lameness during the day's round. A fine of £2, and '£IBs costs, was imposed.

(Proceeding.)