MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
(Beforo Mr. W. A G. Eiddell, S.M.) A TALE OF POVERTY. FLEECING THE CHARITABLE. Ernest Kaye, apparently a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle, disorderly, and without sufficient lawful means of support. Chief Detective, Broberg said that Kayo arrived from the country somo timo ago, and had been loafing about the city. Hβ went to a Wellington woman and asked for employment as a gardener, and she agreed to give, him work. lie told a tale of poverty, and she. gave him -El in advance. Kayo then disappeared, but after a while he returned, and played a similar trick on another woman. Kayo vr-as sentenced to tlrree months' imprisonment.
EOTO ROA NEXT TIME. Rhoderick Matheson was convicted of drunkenness and discharged, fined £i for a certain act, and fined .£3 for breaking a prohibition order. His Worship observed that this was not Mntheson's first breach of a prohibition order. "I will give you one more chance," ho added. "If you break it again you will have to go to Roto Koa."
TO THE MAGDALEN HOME. A first-offending woman was charged with drunkenness and breaking a prohibition order. "I plead guilty of breaking my prohibition order," she said. Sub-Inspector Sheehan stated that there were present two members of the St. Vincent lie Paul .Society, who suggested that the woman should be sent to the Magdalen Homo in Christchurch. They were quite willing to pay her fare to Lyttelton, where she would be met by someono from tho home. The woman had previously spent six months in the institution. His Worship thought it in the best interests of the woman that she should ba sent to tho institution, and committed her there for twelve months.
A VIOLENT PRISONER. John Moore admitted chaTgea of dTunkennoss and using bad language. Regarding the former, he was convicted and discharged, and on the latter charge he was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. ,-" The police statement was that Moore was using bad language near Barrett's Hotel on Friday, and was arrested. Ho was very violent, and on the way to the station he repeated tho language again and again. ■
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1379, 4 March 1912, Page 3
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358MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1379, 4 March 1912, Page 3
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