MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Cases: at the .Magistrate's Court .were dealt with yesterday by Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M. Richard Herbert Alderson, a steward, aged 46, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of being a rogue and' vagabond, in that he imposed on the Presbyterian Orphanage and Social Service Society with, a view to obtaining money. . On. further charges of being a rogue and vagabond and being idle and disorderly, the accused was convicted and) ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. '"'' John. Joseph Poland, aged 67, .a "second offender for drimk'enneEs; - Tvas convicted and 'discharged. •.-A sentence""of "two-months' imprisonment waa ( imposed on Frederick Augustus •Armitage,. a'labourer,., aged; ;44, for using obscene language :jn=. Frederick .street;,On a further .charge-.of-,wilfully breaking two panes of glass,'the accused was fined £1, in default 14 days' imprisonment. .'Senior-Sergeant Dempsey said that the accused - Went to a relative's house when he was' under the influence of liquor. He was asked ttrleavef and when doing so he broke twxv panes of'glass with a stick. He also.-used'the; language complained of, and it .could be. heard .from, the street.