CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18752, 4 January 1923, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

Wednesday, January 3. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) Drunkenness. —Three first offenders, for drunkenness, a woman and two men, were 'aoh fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment.—Another, who had been remanded for medical treatment, was convicted and discharged, and ordered to pay medical expenses amounting to £1 16s, with the alternative of seven days’ imprisonment. A Frenchman, who declared that he had taken a fit and was not drunk, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Youth Remanded.—A youth named Horace Raymond Edlin pleaded guilty to the theft of a silver wristlet watch, valued at £3, the property of John Leaf.-- Seniorsergeant Mathieson, said it had been discovered, since accused was arrested, that he. was out on probation from Auckland. He asked for a remand, stating that the watch has! not been recovered. —Accused was remanded till Friday. Three Years’ Detention. —Cedric Henderson Garrick Smith Lombardi was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond.— Chief-detective Bishop said accused had been sleeping out in the gardens and among the lupins. Ho was in a filthy condition, and should have a term of reformative treatment. Since 1918 ho had been convicted from time to time on similar charges, and ho was always in the same dirty condition. —The probanon. officer (Mr F. G. Gumming) said accused was mentally weak, and was being used as a tool to obtain liquor for prohibited persons. Ho was a, menace to the community.