MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Police cases 'at the \ Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.
Lenient treatment was meted out to three first-offending inebriates. Alexander John M'Lean was fined 10s, in default 48' hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness (a second offence), and Isidore Jacobus (a like offender), who failed to put in an appearance, forfeited the sum of £1, the amount of his bail.
Maurice James W. Smyth, Who was charged that on 18th June, at Te Waewae, with intent to defraud, in that he did obtain the sum of £1 from Nora Flanagan by falsely representing that he was a Government official, and that it was compulsory for her to purchase a book. that he. was selling, was' remanded to appear at Invercargill on Ist September. Bail was allowed in the sum of £50.
J<3hn E. Sass appeared before Messrs. R. W. Short and A. Coles, J.P.s, yesterday at Petone on charges of drunkenness and using obscepe language. On the first charge he was convicted and discharged and on the second fined £5 or 14 days' imprisonment. ,
At Lower Hutt yesterday, a woman firstbffendor. was charged with drunkenness before Mr. W. N. Dempsey, J.P., and fined ss. „
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 48, 25 August 1921, Page 8
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