MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 125, 23 November 1926, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases in the Magistrate's Court yesterday were dealt'with by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. "This offence of obscene language must be put down. You have been twice convicted for similar offences, and fines seem to have no effect," said the Magistrate to Sydney Arthur Stringer, a fireman, aged 25, who admitted using obscene language, assaulting Albert Bertram Turner, a bus driver, and also being drunk. It was explained that the offences arose out of Turner's refusing to allow Stringer to enter his bus because of his drunken condition. Stringer was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for using the obscene language, was fined £2 for the assault, and was convicted, and discharged for drunkenness. William Vinavd Kelly, a seaman, aged 40, was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, for his third offence of drunkenness. Second offenders, Annie Lund Chambers, a domestic, aged 52, and. William Webb and William Stewart, labourers, both aged 45, were each fined £1, in default three days' imprisonment. Two first offenders were fined 10s, the amount of their bail. Leonard John Cookson, a labourer, aged 27, admitted stealing £13, belonging to the V.M.C.A., at Mangahao. Chief-De-tective Ward stated that Cookson, when interviewed, stated that the theft had been committed by him in company with a companion, but there was no evidence to show that anyone else was involved. The Probation Officer (Mr. T. P. Mills) said that Cookson's record had been good, and that the offence seemed to have been an isolated one. The accused was admitted to probation for twelve months, and was ordered to make restitution as directed by Mr. Mills. The theft of two overcoats, worth £5, was admitted by Harold Francis O'Grady, aged 27. It was stated that the accused, who was slightly under the influence of liquor at the time, had taken them from motor-cars parked in Marion street. He had six previous convictions. A sentence of three months' imprisonment on each charge was imposed, the terms to be concurrent.

A first offender for drunkenness was convicted aud discharged by Mr. W. H. Coy, J.P., in the Mount Cook Police Court yesterday.