MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2779, 25 May 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

WO ROGUES SALUTARY SENTENCES I * Mi'. D. (J. A. Cooper, S.M., presided at yesterday's sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. Among; tile defendants, appearing in the dock were Thomas O'Brien, alias Ryan, and John Smith, alias Walsh, lho former pleaded guilty to a charge ot drunkenness and to a second chargo of being a rogue and a vagabond without lawful means of support. Smith pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge of a similar nature. According to the police report, both _ men had records which would have justified the chargo of incorrigible rogue being placed against them. Recently they had- been, noticed to favour the company of half-drunken soldiers, and had taken no heed of a warning from the Mount Cook police. The Magistrate sent O'Brien to gaol for for a period of twelve months, while Smith was sentenced to nine imprisonment. , THEFT. A youth, named John Norman Spiccr, who was just too old to'be tried in the Juvenito Court, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle, valued at ill 2s. 6d., tha property of Ivor Isaac'. The Magistrate imposed a. sentence of one month's imprisonment, but directed that tha youth should be kept npart from other prisoners while in gaol. His Worship intimated that he would forward to the Governor a recommendation that the youth should be sent to an industrial 'school; For stealing a watdi, valued at ill 155., the property of a Serb, who is serving with the New Zealand Forces, Frederick Araitage was sentenced to two months'' Imprisonment. Arniitagc admitted that he had previously been arrested and handed over_ to the military authorities bccause he did not return from leave'. COMMITTED FOE TRIAL. , James Robertson, a - middle-aged man, Vvas committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a chargo of obscene exposure in ttio Sydney Street Cemetery. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the accused, who was admitted to bail. ! OTHER CASES. • Agnes Milligan, 'who declarM that she had a husband serving at the front, was tent to gaol for one month for importun-. Ing. Marion H'Lauglilin, on a charge- of drunkenness, was'remanded until May 31. . Robert I'urce'll, who was clad lii khaki, -was remanded until Wednesday next on a chargo of tlieft from tho person. Arthnr Short pleaded guilty to having nscd obscene language while drunk. Ha was fined sums totalling X 4, in default to undergo a month's imprisonment/ Timothy Donovan was fined 10s. for drunkenness, the alternative being fortyeight hours' imprisonment. Two firstoffending inebriates, were' also dealt with. JUVENILE COURT. In the Juvenile Court, beforo Mr. D. 0. A. Cooper, S.M., a boy fourteen years and a half of age, was convicted and committed to the Weraroa Training Farm on three charges-of theft. His father was ordered to refund .£6 7s. 7d. to the business firm which suffered by tho thefts, and to pay 10s. a, week for tho lad's maintenance.