MAGISTRATE'S COURT
POLICE AND BY-LAW.CASES Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., presided ovor a sitting of the Magistrates Couri; yesterday. Trouble in an Abel Smith Street house resulted in the appearance of Michael Crowloy on a charge of assaulting Nellie Wells. Hβ was fined 405., with tho alternative of spending fourteen days in gaol. William Tieniejj a fireman, appeared on a charge of having stolen a- coat and a vest valued, at 255. He was convicted and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. James M'Laughlin, Cornelius Ashby, and William Walsh, three youths who on February 17 damaged a number of fences at Eastbourne, were jointly fined 10s. on each of four charges. Tho Magistrate advised the offenders to allow the palings, to remain on the fences in future.
For insobriety, Beryl Burham was fined 10s., with the alternative of threo days' imprisonment. Aligns Pollock, charged with ■ insohriety and resisting a constable, wae similarly penalised. A charge of being found helplessly drank, was preferred against William Freeman, who was convicted and ordered to pay medical expenses. James Reside, also found helplessly drunk, was similarly dealt with.' William Andrews, for the commission of an indecent act in Jerrois Quay, was convicted -and ordered to como lip for sentence when called on. For ill-treating a horse by driving it wlile it was in poor condition, Ernest Johnston was fined! 20a., in default seven days' imprisonment. A Burns, R. S. Cording, Leelie M'Hugh, and'A. C. Scott were each convicted <jf failing to attend drill, and wero ordered to pay costs. William Collins was fined 205., with tho alternative of a week's imprison-, mont, on a conviction for Sunday trading. BY-LAW 'OASES'.
Mrs. K. Hall was fined 10s., with costs, for failing to' clear gcrso from her property. William J. M. Lawton, who had left six sacks of fish offnl on tho beach between Island Bay and Happy Valley Bay, was fined 10s., with costß. ' Ikhvard Taylor, who had failed to stop a motor-car when requested by a constable to do so, was fined 10s., with costs. For offending, against the regulations relating to lights on vehicles, Frank Stavely and W. Tclford woro ordered to pay costs, 75., and David Skivington was fined 10s., with costs. H. Badou Powell and Alfred Ernest Voar wero each fined 10s., with costs, for leaving motor-cars unattended .in tho strcot. John Arthur Bassott and Harry Poach, who had also left vehicles unattended, wero each fined 55., with costs. Jess Telford, the owner of stock found wandering at large, was fined 10s., with costs. Edgar Shaw, who had'similarly offended, was fined os., with costs. jj '; Mrs. Percival Evans, who liad left a running hoso unattended in Vho garden, was fined 55., with costs. Mrs. Maud Meatcs, whose offenco consisted in .watering thr> garden by means of a , liose when such a process was prohibited, was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 7s.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3059, 21 April 1917, Page 14
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480MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3059, 21 April 1917, Page 14
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