MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police cases at the Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. James Ward, aged 40, who had three previous .convictions for obscene language, pleaded guilty to a fourth offence. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. For his fourth offence of drunkenness, he was convicted and discharged. Patrick Darcy, alias Dennis Toomey, a slaughterman, aged 36, who behaved in a disorderly manner while drunk in the bar of a hotel yesterday,, was fined £3, in default 14 days' imprisonment. He was fined a similar amount for assaulting the barman who ejected him, and for refusing to leave the bar when requested to do so by the licensee, he was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment. Sydney Charles Leckie, a labourer, aged 38', was charged with stealing an electric iron valued at £1 15s, and with being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient lawful means of support. He was remanded to appear on 11th January. The theft of a saxophone and a clarionet, valued,at £50, the property of Clinton C. Buchanan, from a city restaurant during the owner's absence on Christmas Eve was admitted by William Levine; a steward, aged 23. It was stated that he had pawned the instruments for £6. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. ! On two charges of false pretences, involving £8, Thomas James Campbell, alias Irwin Campbell, aged 48, was further remanded to 10th January. Gladys Constance Foreman, aged 19, pleaded guilty to being an incorrigible rogue in that she escaped from the Point Halswell Borstal institution. It was stated that she had previously escaped from the institution, and had had three months' reformative detention added to the term of two years' detention imposed in January, 1927. She was convicted and sentenced ,to an additional three months' detention. J A remand to appear at Christchurch on 11th January was granted in the case of Leslie Brewer Wilson, a dentist's assistant, aged 34, who was charged with having forged a form of declaration under the Dentists Amendment Act, 1921-1922, by altering certain; entries. A first offender for drunkenness who did not appear was fined the amount of his bail, 10s, by Mr. W. A. Worth, J.P., at the Mount Cook Police Court this morning.