MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7140, 30 May 1910, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SATURDAY, MAY 28. (Before Mr W. G. Riddell. S.M.) THEFT FROM CARGO. Archibald Crichton admitted- being drunk, stealing two pairs of sheets valued at 10s, the property of the Now Zealand Shipping Company, and stealing a tweed overcoat valued at A 3 10s, the property of son*© person or persons unknown. Sub-Inspector Norwood asked that ao ousecl I)© remanded for sentence until Wednesday, as there was a possibility of other charges being preferred against him. The articles in the charge before the court had been stolen from cargo landed on the wharf. The remand was granted. INSOBRIETY. Frederick Georg© Bolton denied a charge.of having been drunk, pleading that he was in a fit at the time he was arrested. His Worship disbelieved him and fined him 10s, in default forty-eighty hours*’ imprisonment. Andrew Larsen was mulcted in a like penalty for insobriety. Albert Thomas Skalli, while drunk, was evicted several times from the Terminus Hotel but persisted in returning. He was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined A2, in default seven days* imprisonment, for refusing i to quit the premises. Samuel Cameron, who had been on remand for a week for medical treatment for drunkenness, was convicted and ordered to nay 17s fid costs incurred on his behalf, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Thomas Louis Gardiner admitted charges of drunkenness and of procuring liquor dining the currency of a prohibition order against him. His Worship warned accused that he was liable to be csent to Pakatoa for a year for a breach of his order, but on this occasion ho did no.t propose to f-eud him there. Gardiner was convicted* and discharged for drunkenness and fined 4-Os or seven days’ imprisonment on the second charge. REMANDED. ' ' - John W. Collins, described as a racecourse frequenter and “known to the police,’’ was remanded to appear at Wanganui on Wednesday next on a charge of wilfully damaging a plateglass window, cruets and crockery valued, at A2l 15s, tlie property of Giuanni Garguile. Bail was allowed in the sum of JC’SO. INDECENCY. Charles Fowler, a coloured man who had never been before the court previously. was fined «C 5, in default one month’s imprisonment, for committing a grossly indecent act in Dixon street on Friday evening last.