MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY'S . CASES. Mr. W. G. Itiddell, S.M., presided ayesterday's sittings of the Magistrate's Court, when tho inebriates' list included some half-dozen first offenders, who were treated ill the usual lenient manner. Jamos David M'Ewan, a young mail with a formidable criminal record, admitted having assaulted an unknown man, and further admitted having resisted arrest. He was ordered- to pay lis. 6d, in respect- of damage done to tho arresting constable's helmet, and was sent to gaol for twenty-one days. Charles Warren, who pleaded guilty to a charge of indecency in Courtenay Place, was fined £4, with the option of twenty-one days' imprisonment. George O'Connell, who was guilty of indecency in Tory Street, was lined £3, tho alternative in his case being fourteen days' imprisonment. James Baldwin, who used indecent language to two gaol warders, was arrested by the warders, and yesterday lie was fined £3'for tho offence. In default of payment he is to undergo fourteen' days' imprisonment. Vivian Wallace, tiventy years of age,, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge of begging money from soldiers in Buckle Street.

For drunkenness, Henry Greenfield was fined 20s._, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment.' Oil a similar charge, Linda Catherine O'Connor was.convicted, fined 55., and made the subject of a prohibition order.