MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1932, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's sitting of S.the Magistrate* A Court was presided over by . Messrs! ;Ai': Longmore, J.P., and H. W. Shortt; J^P.' : Thomas Hewitson,. aged; 42, was. con* i victed and discbargedi for behaving in -4, ; disorderly, manner while ■ drunk:in:-Cuba: \ street on Saturday ,afterno6n, .and.fined •■■':. £2, in.' default seven days' impfieon|nent,' for using- obscene language, o "We'-won't^ : tolerate language of that sort.in this city,**^ Mr. OJongmore told the accused. ' "We'r« -•. a bit concerned as >to whether to send'X you.to gaol or not." "■■ The language wai^ described- by Sub-Inspector JjopaeU-«s^not*' '•• only obscene, tut profane,' 'and--;.t^d'iiii"i\-such a place; at such a period *f the; yearV? was deserving' of- Severe .condemnation;'-;, ■ >' Remands, to appear at Nelson tp^tnorroW.r^/ on charges of theft we're''grante.d''"it» -ttia>£ cases of Charles Gillingham-Howard, afied;^ 18,' and Gilbert Harold Nisbet v aiias Johii X Thompson. •• ..■•*. ■ "' ''■'.•.-' '■".':■<■■':*::.(■'!■??. -Pleading; guilty to", the-' t^ft tjf r^lj^t.-^ property of EeginaH Heatley, a clerfc:Lssl«Ji>i John Bernard. Brooks,. dged^^lmho^^ria >■; arrested ,on Saturday.^by PetectiYes'Bfiyyii and - Eobinson; :wks' remanded^'Ußtil'i' to« ?? morrowjfor sentence. ■-; ■'•■*- '; '■; -. '''r^Z '-'"y]'"£% On a charge of casting ofEfihsiivne!^nji;tii6f: ' in Herbert: street, Thomas aged^:----44, was sentence4-.to fieyen'da^. vin^brison«;,K ment.__ •■ He.wasf'conyicted■ and^dlschargtfi ;; for _his : third: offence.'-\ of^,v dronkennes* within six mpriths./ '\ -^;;r'V:''C'^t^':*-;''::^ Mabel Jessie,Craig,"-aged 64i"-was*;re«iv iriarided until Ist TAptfil~<tora~~d]intei^*9:£i stealing three -\ blankets rvalued •at >£2»&e /^ the: property., of Amy JDydiavTall;^ >• DetJfcr-J-J tive-Sergeant; Revell said": that;:. CbijirtablaLKl McPhee 'had not- yet finishedSina^fflg^Ki;; inquiries into other^ofiSenfies'it^'wlUifcati^s leged hadbeen committed'by'tiie'aclfe^ii'v