MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2344, 29 December 1914, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

!i. sitting of the. Magistrate's' Court was held yesterday, before Messrs. R D. Hanlon and Captain W.H. Hennahy J.P.'s. .Ernest Stevens.was sent to gaol for six months on a charge of being an incorrigible TOgue. ■" Inspector fiendrey said that accused had'been four times previously convicted under the Vagrancy Act, and also, on a charge of theft. Accused had had an ingenious method of begging, in that he frequented the streets armed with a doctor s prescription, informing passers-by tW he wanted the wherewithal to have the prescription "made-up" at the chemist's-. For behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk, John Thomas Oliver, a young man, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, and. was fined £5, or one month's'imprisonment, for resisting Constable Phillips. Edith Conroy, alias Jordon, was remanded to Decomber 30 on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, in that she has insufficient lawful means of support. . Boberfc Warner was fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, for using threatening behaviour in Vivian Street. For importuning, May Gibbons was sent to. prison for a month. James Guiin Leckie was convicted and discharged for insobriety, and ordered to be handed over to the military authorities on a charge of using obscene language.. • , . ' Sixteen first offenders were dealt with. Harold Wellsmore, who appeared on a charge of drunkenness for the third successive occasion this Christmas was fined 205., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment; William Knapp, similarly charged, received a like sentence. John Chambers, Edward Cunningham, and Harry Spencer were each convicted and discharged on charges of insobriety. " ' ■