MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2969, 5 January 1917, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

, ■ 4MISCELLANEOUS OASES. Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., presided over a sitting of tho Magistrates Court yesterday morning. Ji'or insobriety, Clara Kennedy (alms Bella Walker), Denis MTarlane, John Klaunagan, Anthony Bannister, and William Thomas Waters were, each hned 405., with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment with hard. labour. ,On a charge of helpless drunkenness, Benedict Gambriazni was remanded to • January 12. William Herbert Vincent, for his third lapse from sobriety within six months, was fined £3, with tho alternative of 14 days' bard labour. Fitzgerald Clark and James O'Moara, a returned soldier, appeared on remand, charged with a broach -of- tho peace in Cuba Street on December 23. The two had had a. j stand-up fight in tho street, and when 1 arrested had gone quietly to tbo police . station. Apparently tho trouble had arisen through O'Meara's addressing , Clark as "Sambo," an epithet which » the presiding Magistrate considered to ! indicate familiarity, but no intention to insult. Clark wished to have tho case again adjourned in ordor to enable him to obtain'the services of a solicitor, but His Worship hold that undor tho circumstances tho information should < be dismissed, though tho polico had been quite justified in .bringing it. Michael 'O'Brien, previously con- ; victed of being idle and disorderly, and i deemed by the police to be a rogue 1 and a vagabond, was charged with habi--1 tually consorting -with reputed thieves. He had been frautioned by tho polico on numerous occasions, but had not i taken any notico of-tho warnings. Inspector Hexidrey expressed regret at the case, as the accused , had, ho i said, a fine industrious wife and two 1 beautiful children. Drink was the cause t of the trouble, and but for it tho accused might be a ; decent, member of r society. < The Magistrate sentenced O'Brien to - six months' imprisonment with hard labour. William Garner pleaded uot guilty i to a. charge similar to that preferred x against O'Brien. Mr. James Munt, of the firm of Munt, Cottroll and Co., stated that the a accused was a conscientious and consistent worker, well above the average man in the matter of sobriety. Witness know nothing of what tho accused was after working hours. His Worship, in sentencing Garner to six months' hard labour, referred to tho warnings tho latter had received e from the polico, and his apparent den termination to persist in consorting B with bad characters. There was no 0 reason why his case should be dealt o with at all differently from that of s O'Brien. A charge against Edgar 1 nomas d Holmes' of failing to provide for his o wife was adjourned to Tuesday, in <yder to enable the parties in tho oase t to obtain solicitors. ; Charles Henderson was further roll manded to January 11 on a charge of e assaulting AVilliam Fitzgerald, a police ,r constablo, and causing him grievous i, bodily harm. <, Robert Gordon Hand was remanded •, to January 10 on it charge of stealing y an Underwood typewriter, valued at £18, the property of John A. S. Lord. .Tames Henderson, a seaman, convicted of absenting himself without leave, was' ordered to bo placed on board his vessel forthwith Adolt o Carlson and AVilliam Steven _M Auley 0 wore sentenced to 14 days' imprisou--0 ment for a similar offence, and wero 0 ordered to be placed on hoard when y their vessel left tho port. n )1 =■