MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

CONCERNING A MILITARY . r COAT. Mr. D. G. A, Cooper, S,M., presided ■.■■ovary* sitting of the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. • . John Davis was remanded to Monday on a oharge of stealing a military overcoat, valued at £1 175., the property of the New Zealand Government. From the statements of the police it .appeared .that-accused's house had been visited in ' tuiswer -te a complaint had be'en'-- : iU'-usih'¥''h'is wife./ Wli'eii "the police arrived .there they discovered a military overcoat, with.the name "White" on iti'- Accused was accordingly charged' \ with s'tealing it. Aoousedf proffered several" explanations: as to how he had , come possessed of the coat. The case waß' finally -adjourned to Monday, so that, the military authorities might be oonsulted as to the ownership of the coat. Bail was allowed in the sum ol £10. ' DRINK HER TROUBLE. . Catherine Begg, who was found homeless apd drunk in tho Basin Reserve on Friday night) having the sum of one penny in her pocket, wa, charged witn drunkenness and being an idle and disorderly person in that she bad lnsum-' cient lawful means of support. According to Inspector Hendrey, accused's sole .trouble was drink. Acoused admitted that she had "had a drop of drink," and the Magistrate replied that the drop appeared to have lasted some few days. , Eventually the "ase was adjourned till to-day/ so that evidence might ba ■called which would lead to a solution as to what to do with accused. ■ A' FINAL WARNING, Geore Francis pleaded for another chance, and asked to be allowed to get away to the arantry, on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he was found by night in the City Cor. poration's yard, Wakefield Street. Ihe Magistrate eventually agreed to accused's requests, and ordered lum to come up for sentence wflen called upon. "And mind you clear away to, the country, Francis. There is PlenJ.T ol work there, as I know," was the Magistrate's final warning to the accused.OTHER OASES. ■ Susan M'Laughlan was sentenced' to ono_ month's imprisonment for rmporU Thomas Wm. King was fined £2 or one month's imprisonment for incio-, C<S FoV drunkenness, John Walsh was sentenced to one month's; Albert Jackson was fined 205., or three davs' imprisonment; and Norman M'Phee was firicd 10s., or 48 hours' imprisonment. Five first offenders were convicted and discharged.