MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE OASES. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., presided at yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Jean Baptiste Cmillier, Alfred Culmer, and Thomas M'Creavy were each fined 10s., in_ default 48 hours' imprisonment for insobriety. Hugh Reid was fined 205., in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for driving a hcrse while lie was in au intoxicated condition. A young woman named Ettie O'Toole, who has been four times ill the dock on charges of drunkenness, pleaded guilty to a further charge, also to a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, in that she habitually consorted with prostitutes. On the first charge she was convicted and discharged, and on the second was ordered to be detained in the Salvation Army Home for a period of six months. Mary Jane Brown, alias Barry, who, despite a prohibition order against her, has been several times com icted for drunkenness within six months, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a further charge. For having used obscene language she was fined 405., in default seven days in gaol. Charles King was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. ,Tas. fiuddle was further remanded till to-day on a charge of having attempting to commit suicide. Henry Francis Smith was remanded to April 9 on a charge that he escaped from Waimarino Prison Camp