MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

—:— ■ (Before Mr. W. G. Eiddell,. S.M.) At the Magistrate's Court on Saturday Katherino Brooker, alias Kate Lynn, pleaded guilty to a charge of importuning and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. A young man named Gustavo Lindelof, charged with using obscene language, was fined .Ct' with tho alternative of one month's imprisonment. William Slovens, who pleaded not guilty to u charge of assaulting Joseph John 'robin, , was, on tho. application of his solicitor (Mr. H. i\ O'Leary) remanded until February 24. Bail was (allowed in tho sum of 41. Daniel Hirlihy pleaded guilty to (1) behaving in a disorderly. manner while drunk on Friday evening; (2) refusing to quit the Hotel Cepil when requested to do so by a servant of the licensee; (3) assaulting Percival Richajd Waddy. Accused was fined 20s. on each of the first two charge?, and '10s. on tho third charge, tho default being seven days' imprisonment in all three cases. Station-Sergeant Darby stated that accused had not been before the Court before, and the magistrate thereupon allowed him seven' days to pay. .y Samuel Hugh Strain.pleaded not guilty to a charge of being an idlo and disorderly person without lawful visible means of support. Chief Detectivo Broberg called 'evidenco with a view to showing that accused had 1 been seen in a boarder's room .it'the Hotel Cecil apparently washing himself,-but he was not staying at tho ■ hotel,, and had no right to be in the room. - Accused ' had' a number of previousconvictions' and was described by- the chief detective-as a notorious hotel thief. When arrested he had the. sum of 9s. 10d. in his possession: The magistrate said that, as accused had a little money in his possession he was not prepared to send him. to gaol although his record was a very bad one, and would huvo had to have been taken into account, on such a charge as theft. lii the pro-' sent case accused would-bo convicted-and ordered to come up for sentence .when called on. . ; : .