MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with the polio* } and .summons cases at the Magistrates ; "Alexander M'Gregor, aged 33, who waa i charged with having been found in a stata ; o£ helpless drunkenness rot Buckle sfreet, ; was remanded for a week for medical observation. Sub-Inspector Lander said , that M'Gregor had given himself up to ; the police, saying that he was afraid ot ; himself. He had trouble in dodging traf- ! fie, and was unable to sleep. • . ■■;• • For a breach of her prohibition order* :| Ellen Gertrude Stassen was hned 10s. IK , was stated that the breach was the second ; the defendant had committed since the , > issue of the order. :- A remand until next Wednesday wa* ■; granted in the case of William Fraser, an | engineer, aged 42, and James Burman, at , ; labourer, aged 36, who were charged with , assaulting Arthur Brice, alias Brace, with , intent to rob him. Chief-Detective Lopdelt said that the matter would be dealt wiUi j as, an indictable case. .! A charge of breaking and entering ancj ■ theft against three youths, Henry Cor« i ono, Cedric Maitland Gay, and Ernesti \ Charles Smith, was withdrawn, as was al i similar charge against Gay alone. Mr. W« | E. Leicester said that the boys had beeni \ sentenced in the Supreme Court yesterday i to Borstal treatment for breaking and eh- : tering offences. ■. ,' Charged with the theft of a horse,, valued i at £15, the property of Koberfc Anderson, John Benjamin Manttan, a farmer, aged ; 30, was remanded to appear to-morrow; I morning. "It is alleged that he received .j the horse on trial and sold it to another, j man before purchasing it," said Chief-Be* ■ tective Lopdell. . i The mechanism of the old clock in th* j |tpw«r.v| |ajisb > up;.<^§*^-j^^_|i, i: : ; :'i