MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 102, 27 October 1931, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police eases in the Magistrate's Court to-day wore dealt with by. Mr. E. Page, S.M. Three statutory first offending inebriates were convicted and discharged, and another was fined 10s, the amount of his bail. A fine of £\' was imposed on William George Keed, .a labourer, aged 40, who pleaded guilty nndrr provocation to striking a young man in a railway carriage travelling from Trentham to Lambton yesterday. He was convicted and discharged- on a charge of striking another young man. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that the defendant was intoxicated and kept on sinking a verse of a song. TTo then transferred liis attention to the two young men, who were sitting quietly find, taking off his coat, struck them. He had to lie restrained from continuing with his behaviour. ''I was singing a bit. of a song. They got cheeky, and I struck them," the accused told the Magistrate. As- well as the tine, Beed was also ordered to pay witnesses' expenses amounting to £1. After iirwt. pleading guilty, then not guilty, and finally, after some vacillation, guilty again, John Taylor M'Dougall, alias M'Ccirmick, aged 40, said that he was drunk and did not remember the slightest thing about stealing a suitcase and contents from the Salvation .Army Workmen's Home. M'Dougall, who had several previous- convictions, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Failure to take heed of several warnings by the police led to Henry Langstone Day, a labourer, aged 58, being charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he begged alms) in Cuba street. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Found drinking in a city hotel yesterday, Henry Hubert Silk was lined £1 for committing a breach of his prohibition order and convicted and discharged on charges of drunkenness- anil being on licensed premises while prohibited. Charged with receiving stolen property of a. foilnl value of £2, knowing it to have heen dishonestly obtained, l!oy liarllun I Ciiulton. a labourer, aged 21. was remanded until .'ii-rl November, on the application uf Detective-Sergeant Novell. A further reman.l foi a werk ua-= granted in the car-c of Mavis Kthel tieblcy, ii..-d '.'I, who is charged with bring an idle iiml disdideily person in that she has inKuflieicnt, lawful means uf support.