MAGISTRATES COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9953, 24 April 1918, Page 16

MAGISTRATES COURT

YESTEKDAY'S__K>LICE CASES. Mr S. E. McCarthy. S.M., "dealt with the following cu=.e, at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Four firs." otfendins_ inebriates "were convicted and iineuTn' 1110 usual amounts. Daniel Muruhy. Thomas Jacobson, William Alcviauo. who were second" of-Tei..Ts-i.s, weit.. each lined J-'l, in default seven day*' imprisonment. A Swede named Umil Neilson,' "who, ttTien in a drunken condition, entered the Crown Picturo Theatra and. acted in a disscnstinK manner, was sent to uaol for three months. •Jesse Underwood, an old habitue of the court, principally h.r a defendant, Inadft His fiity-fourth appearance jn the dock, He was chared with beinc drunk and with iisintr obscene language. Underwood who frequently interjected during the b.earinK' of evidence given against hira, alleged that women he passed in the afreet referred to him in an insulting manner, and lie remonstrated with them. Defendant was sent to prison for three months. Thomas Reeves, whose record showed that ho had a penchant for using bad language when drunk, appeared to answer a chstrtre of assaulting Thomas Weatlierbiirn. barman at the Pier Hotel. Thy evidence showed that the defendant entered the bar of the Pier Motel and annoyed persons to whom he was unknown. Th» barman put him out. and in doine- so noticed that lie had n square '_'in V.Hle half full of beer in his poelcf-t. Presently 7i«» returned and thrr--w the bottle at the barman, but the missile fortunately jutfssod its marl:. Weatherburn chased the defendant, who ran away, caught him, ;,ni] handed him over to Iho police. Jieeves was sentenced +o three months' imprisonment for thO' assault and six months on a charge of using filthy language.