MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4635, 14 April 1902, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

SATURDAY. APRIL 12. (Before Mr W. R. Haselden, S.M.) Five first-offending drunkards were convicted. Mary Murphy was convicted and discharged for behaving in. a disorderly manner whilst drunk in lugestro street on Friday. For having been found in a state of helpless drunkenness at Ngahaurauga, Frederick Lyness was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Kate Byrne was fined 20s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment for drunkenness. An old man named John O’Neill, who was charged last week with being an idle and disorderly person, and who was discharged on the understanding that he would enter the Ohiro Homo, again appeared before Court in answer to a similar charge. The police reported that tho defendant had been found wandering about the streets again, and that he had only remained in the Homo an hour. His Worship ordered the man to come up for sentence with other vagrants next Friday, A labourer named Walter Harris was charged with having been drunk in Willis street, with having resisted Constable Southgate whilst in tho execution of his duty, with having damaged the constable’s uniform to the extent of £1 18s Cd and with having used obscene language. Constable Southgate stated that the accused and two men wore pulling each other about at the top of Willis street. Witness proceeded to separate them, and the accused struck him with his fist, and made use of the language referred to in the charge-sheet. Witness then put tho accused on tho ground in order to handcuff him, but was pulled off by accused’s companions. With the assistance of two civilians, witness eventually managed to place the accused in a cab, and take him to the police station. Defendant was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour. William Thomas Preston was remanded to appear at Dunedin on tho 15th April to answer a charge of failing to provide for tho maintenance of an illegitimate child.’