MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 18

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

BOTTLE OF GIN. STOLEN FROM HOTEL BAR. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, More Mr. \V. G. Riddell, S.M., Frederick John Mason was charged, witli stealing a bottlo of pin belonging to Richard Dvrycr. A pica of not guilty was entered. The evidence was to the effcct 1 that accused had taken the bottle from n shelf in the bar of Ihe Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and had put it in his pocket. When askod what ho had in his pookot ho bad denied hnvkuj any*

tiling. When the bottle was taken out he had protested, that he did not know anything about itnor could he account how it got there. At one stage of the evidence accused, who was evidently very perturbed, interrupted,' saying: "You're swearing my life awav." He was fined 205., and witnesses' expenses 'Is. STOLEN CLOTHING. . «' John Tower, an old man with a largo number of previous convictions against i iii? nnnie. pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 7s. Gd., the property of Henry Sample, and of resisting a police constable ill the execution of his duty. On the first charge ho was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and on the second he was fined 40s. THREATENING BEHAVIOUR. A young man named Thomas Martin Hnney. who appeared with aNbiaek ejro, pleaded guilty to a. charge V>f using threatening behaviour, and not guilty to another charge of using certain language. On the first charge he was fined 205., and on the second was fined £3 with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment. He was also ordered to pay witnesses' expenses 4s. For using threatening behaviour in Taranaki Street on December 13 Thomas Dunleavy was fined 205., in default 14 days' imprisonment. , OTHER CASES. Frederick Carter pleaded guilty to a charge of using certain language. Ho was.fined 405., with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. Mary Johnson pleaded guilty Jto a charge of importuning on December 13. She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. For insobriety Richard Robinson, Robert Griggs, and Bruce M'Lnndcrs were each fined 405., Francis Nelson 205., mid Thomas Malonev 10?.. Six first offenders were also dealt with. Three I wero convicted and discharged, two fined 10s., and another ss.