COURT CASES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1922, Page 4

COURT CASES

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.Mj, presided, at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Two first-offending inebriates were dealt with in tho usual lenient manner; . , .. Kathleen Tebay had to answer- to "a charge of druukenness and one charge of. breaking the terms of her prohibition order. She was sont to the Inebriates' Home afc Pakatoa for 12 months. "This woman belongs to the: unfortunate class," said. Chief Detective Kemp, when Theresa Puussell entered the dock to answer charges of being an idle and disorderly person and committing theft of the sum of £20, the property of Johan Hanson. She pleaded guilty, i Rußeell was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first charge and six .'months' imprisonment on the second, to be followed by detention for reformative purposes for j a period of two years. ■ i ■ | Horace Smith was finod 5s for drunkenness, and sent to gaol for three months for' committing a breach of his release on |'probation. On a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, James Malkin was sent to gaol for three months: ' For drunkenness, Percival Joseph Mears was fined 10s, in default 48 hours in gaol. Frederick Charles Cossey was fined 10s and costs for selling food in an unclean piece of paper. For trespassing on the Trontham Racecourse, Isabella Cousins was fined 40s, in dafault 14 days in.gaol. William Joseph Allen. John .Allen, 'and Alfred Ernest Keeble were also each lined 40s for a similar offence. , Richard Koena was fined £3 and costs for failing to supply a return to the Commissioner of Taxes.' i ■■ For failing to nave her weighing machine stamped,' Gertrude "Aston, was 'lined £5 and cost?. Others dealt with.on similar charges were-as follow:—Leonard Russell (falso weighing . machine and imstainoed machine.)., 40s and 20s respectively; William Velori (unstamped machine), ordered to. pay costs; John Reginald "Welsby, convicted and discharged. John Milner. W.ikefield was lined 40s and costs for assaulting Elizabeth Rodda. Edward Jossph Jones, on a char.ao of wilfully destroying a cot, was fined 20s and costs. ,'\ sentence of fouri'pnn 'h\s' imprisonmr:nt was imfiodntl on Carl Julius Olson far assaulting Ernest Lohmtn.