MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

"„* ■ , Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day. For a, third offence of drunkenness, Thomas Hughes was fined tho amount of his bail,'*l. John Maddock was fined £1 for a second offence of drunkenness. Two first-offending inebriates wer« each fined 10s, and another was convicted and discharged. AVilliam Bruce, a second offender for drunkennoss, was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. George Errol Coates (24) and Constance Lavinia Kiddie (28) pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining £15 ss. froni tho Otago Tinanca and Agency Co. at Dunedin by means of a false pretence. Chief-Detective Ward said that the accused had taken a representative of the company to a house in Dunedin during the absence of the occupants and had shown him a piano which, the accused said, belqngod to thorn. By this means, they had secured £15 ss. "They have been doging about the country ever since they knew the police were after them," said the Chief-Detec-tive. The Magistrate remanded the accused to appear to-morrow morning for sontence, and ordered the Probation Officer (Mr. Mills) to furnish a report on the male accused. Charge with assaulting Arthur Augustus Edwards, Charles Grieve Robertson was fined £4, and ordered to pay witnesses' expenses, amounting to £1 9s, in default 21 days' imprisonment.