THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 3

THE COURTS.

MAGISTEBUL. (Before ICr S. E. McCarthy, S.M.) dkuxxexxess. Two male first offenders were fined 5s and 10a respectively, wiili the -ueual alternative. A&otiier male first offender was remanded. for seven davs {or medical treatment. John Kelly, a man with a long list of. convictions for drunkenness, was convicted of a further offence against sobriety, and ordered to coxae up for eenter.ee when called upon, sentence to bo 6U6pcnded provided ho mained in tho Salvation Army Home for 1months. • A prohibition order was issued against him. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.^ Joseph Grosvenor Kcit and Albert £.3ward Way pleaded r.ot guilty to beins drunk and disorderly in Cathedral square early yesterday morning. Sergeant O'Grady said "the pair were seen by him singing at the top of their voices in the Square shortly after midnight, and' ono of thein was holding a half empty l>oex botue from which they had been drinking. He told them to stop and go homo, and said that they were acting like hoodlums. One of tho men got very annoyed at this, and after saying that he had i boen .it the front forthroo years, said he would push tho sergeant over if he mol&stcd them. Both men were under the influence of liquor. Constable Taylor also gave evidence. The accused Keti eaid thai tho whole trouble arose from Sergeant O'Grady calling him a, "hoodlum."' .As he had done three years' military service and had a good discharge he was certainly annoyed at being called a name like this. His Worship said, taliing all the circumstances into consideration, he would not inflict a fir.o. Accused would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentcuco when called upon.