MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2343, 28 December 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

RESULTS OF TOO MUCH CHRISTMAS CHEER. - There was'.a great array of offenders for Messrs. R,. D: Haiilon and Captain W. H, Hennali, J.P.'s, to deal with at t]io Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning.. Altogether ' twentytfiree persons were dealt .with who had celebrated the festive. season "not wise-;, ly but too well."' Fourteen were first offenders who were dispoaed of according to scale Alexander Gelmer, Kobt. Russell, Ambrose Williams, and John Mann-had each been previously convicted and were fined 10s., or 48 hours' imprisonment. Henry M'Cusner was convicted and discharged. Harold Wellsmore, who, with.the help of his bail,, was-able to get drunk twice, oncq on' 1 Christmas. Eve and again on Christmas Day, was convicted on each of ihe two charges and ordered to\ make good the damage he did; to : the helmet of the constable who arrested him.

"I made a bit of a fool of myself by taking too much drink," confessed Michael Sullivan, charged with drunkenness and wilfully damaging , household property of Mrs. Quinn, and a cell bucket, the property of' the New Zealand .Government. On the first charge ho was fined 55., with the alternative of 24 hours' gaol, on the second he was ordered to make good the damage, 10s., in default 48 hours',' and on the third ne was ordered to pay 65., damage done m default 24 hours. -~ ;.,.. George Hume was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and remanded to December 29 on a charge of committing a breach of his prohibition order.

"Christmas comes but once a year, and as a friend asked me to nave a drink I had one," said a youth .named Harold Robinson in/explaining how he came to be a participator in a street disturbance on Christmas £v«. KobI inson was charged with creating a breach of .the peace and pleaded that he had only fought in self-defence. •• He was fined 20s.,in.defaulf 48 hours in gaol. ■...■ / .. James M'Keeyer, an-old man, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and sentenced to one month's gaol for being an incorrigible rogue and a vagabond. ■ Mary Stent was remanded to December 30 on a. charge of being a rofeue and a vagabond in that she consorted with people of ill-fame. Bail was allowed in £5. ■ Bella Foster was remanded to the 1 same date on two charges of being an idle and disorderly person. May_ Sjdon and Stella' Taylor were each similarly remanded on changes'uf being rogues and vagabonds.