MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

j LIQUOR IN A MILITARY GAMP. Mr. L. G. Roid, S.M., presided at tno -Magistrate's Court on Saturday. * For insobriety eight first offenders were convioted and discharged'. _ A fine of 205., in default soven days' imprisonment, was inflicted on Fredoriole Smith, who, while drenk, committed a grossly indecent act in Willeston Street.' John JBreen and Charles Frederick VVilhams ware each fined 10s., in dofault 48 hours' imprisonment, for fighting in Manners Street. Theft of a rug, valued at £2. the property of Ruby Recs,.was the cliargo against John Chadwiclc, formerly aporter at the Bristol Private Hotel, xiie theft took pluo© on March 24. : Inspector Marsack stated that Obadwiok had a very bad record of crime, extending baok to 1907. Ho did notl'ing but loaf about town taking people down. Ohadwiolc was sentenced to serve fourteen days in gaol. A fireman named George Smith was charged with the theft of .ax "tins of I-., jam and one tin of syrup from a vessel in port. Smith was seen by a constable to leave the wharf with a pack on his backj and when accosted he admitted having taken the goods fromthe vessel. A fine of 405., in default . fourteen days' imprisonment, waß imposed. David Eintoul Cousin wag charged ■ that on March 29 he did take intoxicat- ' ing liquor into Tauhereriikau camw. Inspector Marsack stated that, accused ; was arrested by the Military Police,; and when searched! .was found to have ; in his possession a lemonade bottle containing 6ome whisky. Accusftd was working at the camp as a barbar, and maintained that the whisky -was for ■ ]iimself, the quantity fteing small. -Dhis point was taken into consideration by the Magistrate, who imposed a fine' of ' 205., in the alternative seven days''imprisomneut. ' '•• • George Thoma? Rumble, for xwing obscene language in a railway carnage ' while travelling behveen Weilington and ; Johhsonville, was fined 40s. and costs, i Soven days in gaol was the alternative ij fixed. ' . I John Joseph Drew, charged with the theft of two boxes of butter, valued at £8 17s. 6d., the property of the Wei- , 1 i lington ' Meat Export. Company, was | remanded to Wednesday. Bail was ' fixed at £50. • ' .