MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Cases at the Magistrate's Court wer* watciw by Mr' W- H; Wood!

_Grace Violet Lucas, a domestic, aged 23, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for i being idle and disorderly m that she- had insufficient lawful mean* of support. :.

T | leCiiD^- t0 -obe tried hy iur>V Henry detferd alias Boss, alias King,. a labourer,' aged. <S, was remanded until Wednesday on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in that he had: insufficient lawful means^ol support, aud had previously been convicted for being idle and disorderly, -vr «- IS, an , unusua»y bad case,"-Baid Mr. Woodward when he fined Patrick lJerrnott iteming, a labourer, aged 38 '£4 tor using, obscene language in a public restaurant The" accused-was said to have used the language-complained of to a waitress who refused to give him a glass in which to drink liquor. The Magistrate said that the. accused did not deserve time to pay, and fixed default o£ payment aj c vree'^s'' imprisonment.- " ■ .Andrew Moyes, a labourer,, aged 29, wa« nned- £1 tor using indecent language in Taranaki street. • ,

Williaui^Gunn, a labourer, aged 51, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment w bta^nhlg^ £li 6s from Thomas Weatherburn by false pretences. Detec-tive-Sergeant Tricklebank- said the accused had obtained a cheque for £14 Cs from -Mr. Weatherburn in return for a valueless one he (the accused) :had filled in. After that Gunn started drinking heavily, and went to Levin, where he spent all the money.

Cases at tlje Magistrate's Court were dealt with on Saturday by Mr T B McNeil, S.M. * *

A remand until Tuesday was granted in the ease of Albert Thomas Sim Evans ":- a labourer aged 22, who was charged -with, stealing three watches valued at■ *r>: rlw» property.of George Lester Keed7 "P for sentence within four years if call? Ed upon on charges of converting a motor\amea at £75 to their own"-use-Un charges of using intimidating words r,n,^r,Wr? g4Ully. certain persons at Hataitai to vote when they wV legal right to abstain from so doing, William O'Reilly, a labourer, aged 30, vras iuvther remanded until Tuesday. His bail wajT renewed. "

. A further remand was granted in the case of Frederick George Hall, alias Detective E. M. Empson, a traveller, aged 32. William John.Newman, a plasterer, aged 52, and James Burch, a labourer, aged 49, who ■were charged with breaking and entering the house of Tom H. Hill at 105, 'Grant road, and stealing goods raked at ..£lO 105.4 d» -■■ - --..■ _■;._:_