MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases in the Magistrate's Court yesterday were dealt with by Mr. E. Page, S.M.

"You seem to have haa dozens of chances, and you have a long list of convictions for various offences," said the Magistrate in sentencing Peter Butler, alias Clancy, a labourer, to one month's imprisonment for being an idle ana aisorderly person. Butler admitted that he had begged alms in Willis street yesterday.

"I thought I might better myself by coming here; things are 'a bit crook' at Home," said William James Dixon, a seaman, aged 37, who admitted deserting from the Botorua. When a shipping company official had explained that the accused had conducted himself well, and that his offence was not regarded aa a serious one, the Magistrate convicted Dixon and ordered him to forfeit the wages due to him. For being an idle and disorderly person, John Fry, alias Bole, a labourer, aged 58, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. On a charge of drunkenness Fry, who has twenty-seven previous convictions for varioua offences, was convicted and orderea to pay £2, motor-car hire.

Charged with the theft of a dress ana a quantity of serge of a total value of £2 17s 63, belonging to Theresa Morrissey, Arthur Thomson Hornell, a labourer, agea 18, was remanaed to appear at Christchurch to-morrow.

A fifth offender for arunkenness, Jack Williams, a labourer, aged 56, was fined £3, in default fourteen days' imprisonment.