MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

-A.sitting of the : Magistrate's /Court was ' held yesterday morning, before Messrs.- H. F. Davis and L. ii'Kenzio, ?.l'v's.'••'.' ; ;; ■■;:-,.., ~^>'r-^:'"? . Alexandef/Webster, a pleaded guilty'to charges of using threaten-. ing behaviour in iuannore Street on A T ew. Year's Eve, and resisting Burnett .in-M the execution, of. his. dutyHe was" ordered to, be handed, over-to, the military authorities. '.;.Y; : - -'.'-.': ■ Alexander Bain, another trooper, concerned in the same disturbancej'had two similar: charges preferred against : him, and furthermore was charged -with.--, assaulting Constable Burnett'.-''He was' similarly dealt with-on entering: pleas ■of-guilty.." ■.-■'. -.-'.■ ; ..-':. : — ..' -" ' John. O'Conuor pleaded to stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 10s. 6d.', the property of Falk'Cohen. He was fined £3, in default one month s. imprisonment. •'",'■'"■ "j j William Robert Fißher was remanded to appear at Dunedin on a -charge of failing.to • provide his wife, ■'-," Isabella Fisher, ''with ; adequate maintenance.. , . Harry Tanim asked to be; dealt with summarily on a ; charge of being, a iogue and a vagabond/ in that be consorted with' thioves.'-. He pleaded' .guilty;.; and -was remanded to January 4. ■: George Brooker- pleaded guilty to a .charge of being an idle and 'disorderly '. person with insufficient lawful, means of . support. _ : He was sentenced to ; ono month's imprisonment. ' ■■'■•-.' : -: -. S , For insobriety, Mary Johnson. Joseph .Sloan, and Thomas Morrison- were each fined' 10s., in. default 48'hcurs' imprisonment. ' Similarly- charged, 1 W uliam Lynch and Albert White,. ; the-'lntter a prohibited-person, wcro each.fined £3, with the; alternative of oiib month in gaol.' Tw6 first offending. inebriates were dealt' with. • ■ '■']'■:-