MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4872, 26 January 1903, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. (Before Dr A. McArthur. S.M.) Three first offenders, and a second offender named Joseph Read, charged with drunkenness, wore convicted. Maurice Kennedy was fined 10s, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. Ohas. Hoary was fined 20s or seven dayS’ imprisonment. Robert Broadbon};, a casual employee of the Harbour Board, was charged with having stolon one boot, valued at 4s, from one of the Board’s sheds on the 23rd iust. Mr Jellicoe appeared for the defendant, and said his client found a child’s boot in the shod. Ho put ft in his pocket and took it home, thereby committing a technical offence. His Worship severely cautioned the defendant and dismissed the case. Alfred Storrio, a middle-aged man, was charged with indecency in Mowbray street on 23rd inst. The defendant was remanded for sentence until the 30th inst. In the meantime he is to bn medically examined. Walter Henry Mansion, a youth oyer sixteen years of ago, admitted having stolen a purse valued at 30s, containing £0 in money and a cheque for £2 17s. the property of Samuel Williams. The defendant was ordered to ho returned to the Industrial School from which ho had been licensed out. At the Mount Cook Police Court, before Mr Thomas Dwan, senr., Ellen Anderson, an old offender, was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for drunkenness, and one first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.