MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. W. G. Biddell, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court ou Saturday 'morning.

Alexander M'Swaney. alias M'Sweel'py. was convicted of drunkenness arid discharged, and on a charge of using obscene language in Lambtou Quay was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment.

Heriry William 'Smith, for 'using threatening behaviour, was lined 405.. with an. alternative of seven clays' inmrisnnment. William Henry Dumphy was remanded to December 2G on a charge of breaking, entering, and theft. YESTERDAY'S SITTING. Mr. AY. 0. ltiddcll, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. William Alexander was fined 20s. for insobriety, and John Hyde, also convicted of insobriety, was ordered to be prohibited and was discharged. Frederick Wallace, for using obscene language in Tui Street, was fined. 405., the alternative being fixed at seven days' imprisonment. Martin Coogan, deemed by the police to be a rogue and a vagabond, having no visible means of support, was remanded to January 1. Henry Ernest George Solway, Jeremiah M'Mahon, and James Steven O'Neill were each charged with assaulting Howard Webby and causing him actual bodily harm. Solway was further charged with drunkenness, and O'Neill with assaulting Adreanus Dirge and Constablo Cox. The accused were remanded to December 29, bail being allowed, each in. one surety of £100 or two of £50.

Bert Teague, for holding communication with Solway and O'Neill without permission from the officer in charge of the Mount Cook lock-up. where they were detained, was fined 40s. Henry Sergent, for being drunk while in charge of a horse and an express, was fined 20s. ; ■

Johann Jensen and John Smith were each fined 20s. for causing t a breach of the peace in Dixon Street. Orasiio Gini and Charles Jose, on a similar, charge in respect of a disturbance in Tory Street, were also fined 20s. eacb. John Elder Boyd was _fined_ 10s. for using threatening behaviour in Willis Street. Fitzgerald Clark, a negro, and James O'Meara, a returned soldier, were re. manded to December 28 on a cbargft of breaking the peace. Tho remand was granted at the request of Clark, who expressed a desire to have a solicitor.