MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. At. tho Magistrate's Court on Saturday Mr S. h. M'Carthy, S.M., was on the. Bench, arid dealt with the police cases. barah Goodwin was chargwl with being an idlo and disorderly person in that she possessed insufficient lawful means of supgort, also with beiug found drunk, there heme two previous convictions against her for drunkenness. On tho first- charge sho was convicted and sentenced 1.0 . three months imprisonment, and for being drunk sh » was convicted and discharged. Ine uao of obscene language in Vivian Street on Friday evening resulted in Eliza, both Biddlo being convicted and ordered to come up for sen>nco when called upon and for beuig dr.u'nk a. prohibition order was isaued aga Allstl her. lor .msobne-,y Timothy Donovan, against wnoni tilery woro threo previous convicJi 0 .?.? , IV<U / sent to prison for threo months; William 'aordon, w it-h. one previous conviotiojy ¥ lvas jitictl 205., in default seven da y>* imprisonment. Edward Bloomfield w / : s convicted (ind discharged for a breach «f his prohibition order, and for drunkenness ho was sentenced to three months' imprisonment

Arthur Sheriff, who was found helplessly drunk in Lambton Quay, was remanded for n, week for medical treatment.

James Langney was found by a constable lying on tho footpath on Wellington Tcrvacn. Ho told the constable that he. had been without food for three or four days. Ho was taken to the polico Elation, where it was 'seen that Lengncy was' ill. Ho was not in any way under the influence of liquor, but was more in a, state of nollapa). He was charged with being an idlo nnd disorderly person in that ho had insufficient lawful means of support. Tho Magistrato decided to remand tho case for a week.

Loitering in a public place for immoral purposes; and being a rogue and a vagabond in that, sho possessed insufficient lawful means of support,'were tho two charges preferred against Louisa Tierncy. She was convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for being a roguo and n, vagabond, and on tho charge ■of loitering she was ponvicted aud discharged.