MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Police cases in tho Magistrate's Court today wero dealt with by Mr. 12. Page,
"He seems to be a pugnacious individual." said Sub-Inspector Lander, 'when John Fitzgerald, alias Thomas Glen, a labourer, aged 36, pleaded guilty to assaulting John Sweet. The accused had walked into a restaurant in Courtcnay place yesterday afternoon, and without provocation punched the proprietor in the faco, said the sub-inspector. The accused had n number of convictions for fighting, assault, and resisting the police.
Fitzgerald was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. Half the fine is to go to the complainant.
Frederick Richard Slinn, aged 67, was convicted and discharged for being drunk and fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, for casting offensive matter.
At the Mount Cook Police Court this morning a first-offending drunkard who spent the night in the cells wns convicted and discharged by Mr. G. Anyan, J.P.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 14
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