MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Police cases in the Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. .■■...-. William Lindsay Atkinson, alias William Henry Baker, alias .Watson, alias Clifford, a labourer, aged 38, admitted being an idle and disorderly person. SeniorSergeant Lander . said, that - the accused, who had fourteen previous convictions for various offences, was addicted to drinking methylated spirits. Observing that Atkinson had three previous convictions for similar offences, the Magistrate imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment. For a fourth offence of drunkenness, Atkinson was convicted and discharged. Found guilty of begging in Couftehay place, Lionel George Hood, a labourer, aged 30,. who has a. list of previous convictions for drunkenness, vagrancy, obtaining credit by fraud, and theft, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. His second offence of drunkenness cost Walter Robert Page, a labourer, aged 40, £1, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. The Magistrate allowed him one week in which to find the money, r Two first, offenders for drunkenness, who appeared before Mr. W. A. Worth, J.P., in the Mount Cook Police Conrfc to.daf. were each coiujcted and dwehargod,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 10
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183MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 10
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