CASES BEFORE THE COURT.
Robert James Dougall, a young main, was charged before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court yesterday with being a rogue and a vagabond," in*that he was found yesterday armed ■with-an offensive weapon, to "wit a tSudgeon. with felonious intent. Accused said the whole affair was a joke, and he, with a "mob" of other fellows, was only acting the goat. , The Magistrate: A rather dangerous, way of "acting the goat," when the Rrhole city is excited. . Senior-Sergeant Mathieson said the accused's statement was quite correct. There "was a mob of 1 youths, and they were all armed with batons.. They went about accosting people, and endeavouring to create a disturbance. The accused had a bad-record. The Magistrate: That alters the case. Sentenced to", fourteen days' hard ;■,...-. labour! ■"• ' ■-, ■■; .;; ■■'.■. '• ■■ . " . "Walter Turner; on a'similar charge, f save: that the alleged "offensive -weapon" was a stone, was remanded :; tul to-day, on the application of his ;Kv«ouni«l.--.Mr M. Donnelly. Bail was i - self in £50, and one surety of
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 8
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171CASES BEFORE THE COURT. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 8
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