MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Saturday's' sitting" of the Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. E. Page, s.m: •:'•'.:■

Persisting in his assertion that a friend of his was staying there, although he had been told differently by the proprietress, Harold Markham Bates climbed through a window of the Wayerley Private Hotel yesterday afternoon and-went to sleep on a bed. He was fined £2 for using indecent language when he was being taken, away by a constable, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months for being found unlawfully on the premises. ''I. think probably the amount of liquor he had consumed had something to do with his entry in this way," said the Magistrate. . -

On one charge of theft of a rug from a motor-car in which he had slept, George William Low, aged 35, who was stated to haye a long list of convictions, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. On i second similar charge he was-sentenced to one month's imprisonment,-the sentences to be concurrent. ■ ■-•'

Pleading guilty to two charges of theft of money totalling; £61 12s .3d, Thomas Morris Baker, aged 62, was admitted to probation for three years. The accused, who had been in business as a land and estate agent, had collected the money as rent for a landlord who was absent in England. It was stated by his counsel that his business had fallen off greatly during the last two years and the accused had used this money for his current working expenses in the hope that business would improve and he would be able to pay it back. . ' . ■ .