MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 63, 17 March 1922, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., presided at today's sitting of t the Magistrate's Court. Two first-offending inebriates were leniently dealt with. . . ■ On a charge of failing to comply with the terms o£ his release on probation, a young man. named Gagliano Bitossi was convioted and ordered to,come up for sentence when called upon. A young woman named Cecilia Hunter pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at 2s, the property of Mary M'Lean, and committing mischief by wilfully destroying; two cups valued at Is 6d. Sub-Inspector M'Namara said he proposed to call evidence to show that the woman had been leading an immoral life, in order that the Magistrate might exercise his power and send her to a reformatory. Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, who appeared for the accused, said that the evidence called by the police had not disclosed that the woman was living an immoral life. The fact that Hunter was living with a Chinaman did not class her as a prostitute. The Magistrate said that he considered that the charge had been amply proved, and the accused had a long record. He .sent her to the Inebriates' Home at Pakatoa for two years. Charles Freeling was fined 10s, In default 48rliours in gaol, for a second offence of drunkenness.! ..,,-.■-■...-•-. . !

James Harold Corson was fined 40s, in default 14 days in gaol, for having been found drunk while in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and was convicted and discharged for,a breach of his prohi; bition order. ",-''' ' '