POLICE CASES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10508, 9 February 1920, Page 7

POLICE CASES

AT MA GASTEiATB'6 COURT. Th sitting of the Magistrate’s Court on Saiturdav was presided over by Mr W. G- PJd’dcll, S.M. Two firstt-offending inebriates were fined 5s and costs, in default of St Ihonrs" imprisonment. John Patrick Robinson, who appeared on remand, was convicted and ordered ho rcomo up for sentence when called on on. a charge of vagrancy. A THEFT CHARGE. Ernest Arthur Sinclair, who was only arrested on Friday night, was, remanded for a week on a charge of having stolen an electric fan and magneto, valued at Al 4, tho property of William Quinn. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. "I don’t remember saying that,” said Thomas Blake, when charged with, having been' drunk in Vivian ©treat Und with having made use of obscene language. Blako was convicted and fined A 3 and costs. "HaSH HO bAHHE Three young men, John 8., John, and William Joseph AJlen, were charged wdtn the theft of fourteen cases of ibeer, vain, ed at Alt, from Stent’s Brewery, on January 31st. Mr I’. W. Jackson appeared for al. three of the defendants, and put in a plea of not guilty for James AHen, while tile other two pleaded <juil+y. Mr Jackson said that the defendants lived close to the brewery, and the change against them mas tho result of a drunk-ettSuJ?-Inspec.tor Elmerson agreed to the charge being withdrawn against Jaimes Allen. Tho other two defendants Allen wore fined A2, and ordered to pay A 3 IDs, the value of the beer (wiuoh was not consumed), in default seven days imprisonment.