MAGISTRATE’S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY, December 22

(Before Mr J. S. Evans, S.M.)

Joseph York and Thomas Coyle were each fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, -for drunkenness. Esther Collier pleaded guilty to two charges of having used , obscene language in a public place, and was sentenced to on© month’s imprisonment on each charge, the terms to run concurrently. Kate Sweeney admitted a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, in that she habitually consorted with women of ill-fame, and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

Charges of drunkenness and tho use of obscene language in Willis street were admitted by Daniel Jenkins, n miner from Reefton. On the first charge the accused was fined, 10s, or twenty-four hours, and on the second £3, in default one month’s imprisonment.

An old man named John Kilmartin idmitted having committed a grossly ndeoent act in Egmont street. Acjording to the police, the man war Irunk at tho time. A fine of 20s, >r. forty-eight hours, was inflicted. John Faithful was, on the application of Mr H. F. O’Leary, remanded until Wednesday on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, iir that ho habitually consorted with reputed prostitutes. Bail was allowed in the sum of £lO.

A middle-aged man named Frederick George De Lisle, who was described by Chief Detective Broberg as being at one time a labourer in the Kaikoura district and now a vagrant, admitted having stolen a handbag and contents, valued at £lO, the property of Norman L. Gurr. The bag was stolen from a reading-room at the Empire Hotel, and certain of the contents, as well as tho bag itself were sold. A number of legal documents in the bag were hidden by the accused in a shed on the reclamation works, but everything had been (redovexed 1 . The accused was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

Sydney James Henricks came up for sentence on a charge of having stolen tho sum of £6 7s, tho property of Annie Hacking, to which he had pleaded guilty at a previous sitting. Saying that he desired to give the accused a chance, as he was only a young man, His Worship admitted him to probation for twelve months, and ordered him to refund-the amount stolen. On a further charge of having failed to provide for the maintenance of his illegitimate child at Marton, the accused” was remanded to appear on Wednesday before the Magistrate’s Court at Marton. A DISORDERLY HOUSE. An elderly woman named Emily May Baker was charged that, being a tenant of premises in Taranaki street, she knowingly permitted them to be used as a brothel. A further charge was preferred against tho accused of being an idle and disorderly person in that she habitually consorted with reputed prostitutes. In connection with tho same establishment, Jean Leahy, Margaret Irving, John Leahy, John Tremain Belsham, Henry James Wren, Charles Moore, and Charles King were each charged with assisting in the management of a brothel, and further wito being idle and disorderly persons in that they habitually consorted with reputed prostitutes. All pleaded not guilty, and the cases were taken together. The accused were not represented by counsel. Evidence was given to the effect that the house had been the resort of convicted prostitutes, and had become a public nuisance to the neighbourhood. The Magistrate convicted the accused, Emily Baker, and imposed a. fine of £3, with 7s costs, in default fourteen days, on the first charge, and £2, or seven days on tho second.

The woman Leahy was lined £5, or one month, on the charge of consorting, ns was also the male accused Leahy. The remaining accused were each fined £3, with the option of fourteen days, on the same charge, the other charge against each of the accused was then withdrawn.