MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Police cases in the Magistrate's Court this morning were dealt.with by Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M." .. One first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. Another was fined 5s and three others, who did not appear, had their bail of 10s each estreated. .
For his second offence of drunkenness within six months, James Flynn, aged 45, was fined the amount of his bail, £1.
Edith Hunt, aged 37, who was charged with her, third offence of drunkenness within six. months, and with the third breach of her prohibition order within the same period, asked to be given another chance. "I have been working very hard, your Worship," she said, "and I am just , a little run down." "Hunt "was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, on each charge:--"You have a fairly substantial list, and I can't treat the matter lightly," said the Magistrate, when sentencing Leo Reginald Dennis, a butcher, aged 26, on two charges of stealing £1 and 5s from Alice Barrett. Chief-Detective Lopdell sand that the accused, was lodging with Mrs. Barrett, and Some weeks ago she decided to put a telephone my and, she gave the accused the application form with £1 deposit. - The accused destroyed the form and kept the £1. The 5s was a postal note which was contained in a letter which the complainant bad given the accused- to post. Dennis was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to. be concurrent:
Two first-offending inebriates were each iincd 10s by Mr. W. H. Coy, J.P.,. at the Mourt Cook Police Court this morning.
MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 11
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