MAGISTRATE'S COURT
y/ POLICE CASES. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. A first offender for drunkenness 1 was convicted and discharged. A similar charge was preferred against Samuel Smith, 'who was fiiied 205., or in default three days' imprisonment. For breaches of the peace, Jas. Henry Reece and John Renfield wore lined 10s. each. "A liard-working, married man" was tho character given by the police to Joseph Stem, who was charged with playing an - unlawful game on the Queen's Wharf. The Magistrate took a lenient view of the case. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. ■ Eight charges of theft and obtaining money by false pretences were laid against Fred. Marshall Martin. The accused had issued false cheques in various parts of the country, and on tho application of the police the case was remanded, till the 14th inst. William Aubury was fined 10s. for stealing three sticks of celery from a Chinaman. ' \
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2791, 8 June 1916, Page 9
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166MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2791, 8 June 1916, Page 9
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