COURT CASES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 11

COURT CASES

Police aud-3jiwmbns cases were dealt with by Mi\ VET__.Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Ccmrfc- yesterday.

Two first-olfiiiHers for. drunkenness •wev'e each fine'd:£3,;in-,default 7 days' imprisonment,' v/h'ile - jbhri Joseph Kelly, mating his fourth appearance, was fined £35 in default:.- seven days' imprisonment. '>■:- x > •■'■■ .•■■■.

j£n elderly seaman named Samuel Grsinge, who had used threatening behaviour in the street, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment. The information against a younger man, Leo Joseph Lafferty, who appeared in connection with the same offence, \va» dismissed.

A* remand for .sentence until Tuesday was/granted.in. the case of. a young man naiiied Leonard: Cyril" Fel'gusoii, who pleacled guilty "to the ;theft of ;a- brief bag" and contents- valued at £4 10s, and thejfurthcr theft.of. a.wedding. ving and a brooch, the property of" Zillah: Burke. Trespassing on thei racecourse'• result- ■ ed : in Percy James Braitlnvaite being fined £5 and costs, and Alfred .Brickell £10 and costs.. ''" ' . '. " '

A young man naitied Robert John Percival Lucas, who had stolen a fur-vali ued"'at £5, was admitted to probation for': a period of two years. The theft in question was committed at the Trenthiun Racecourse

For Sunday trading, Helen Brown, Emily Densen, Isabella Hall, and Ellen Stewart Jenkins were each fined £1 and costs. ■ -: •-• - ; '•

■falter Robert Page,' .who had com-, niitted a breach of his. prohibition order, was fined £1' 10s and costs". ' '

A. youth named .Norman Alcock, who had ill-treated a^ horse,, was fiiied £2 and costs. ■ : ■--.'■

William Campbell ".denied stealing .a piece of timber valued at-ss, and after heajing evidence, the- Magistrate decided to dismiss the charge. The accused was represented by Mr. C. A. L. .Treadwell. ..■•-..

rjor failing- tol-pay their' annual iicense duties, the Waipatiki Oil Wells Ltd!;- (Falmerston North) wei'e fined'£s and; costs, -and the Marima Co-operative Dairy Comgany, Ltd. and the .Mastertbri Old Show Grounds, Ltd., each £2-and .costs.-. '•: ;