MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 165, 2 April 1918, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

» . RIOTOUS SEAMEN. Messrs. J. W. Ellison and D. Keir, Justices 'of the Peace, presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and dealt with the police cases. Two seamen, Henry Cox and Frank Charles Smith, were oach charged with assaulting Fred Gotlber, using obscene language, and resisting the police. The two men went into Godber's, in Courtenay Place, each with a bottle of liquor, and, tipping up tho bottles, began drinking. They were asked to leave tho premises, when they commenced using obscene language. Goober rang up for the pohco, and the men loft, but they returned, and were barred entrance by Mr. Godbor who was attacked, and who in self-defence struck one of the mon. The police' then came on the sccno, and arrested the men, who set upon the police and gave them a great deal of trouble, j There were all the elements of a not present, when some tramway officials came to the assistance of the police, Inspectors Dunn and O'SulUyan m. particular rendering valuable help. On the charge of assault the men were convioted and discharged, for usin« obscene language each man was lined £5, and a similar penalty was imposed on each of them for resisting the police. Tho fines will be deducted from their wages. William Martin Tier, who appeared with his head in bandages, was charged with being drunk, resisting the piiilico, and using obscene language; Thomas James Stiuson, with obstructing the police, and Martin Gerald Carter with inciting the other two men to resist tho police and using obscene language. The trouble occurred on Saturday evening near the Hotel Cecil. All three men were convicted. _ tier was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, fined £5 in default one month's imprisonment for resisting the police, and for using obscene language ho was' sent to gaol for three months. Carter, for inciting resistance to the police, was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment, and for using obscene language was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Stiuson was fined £5, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment, for resisting the police. . Ttlor insobriety Cecilia Parkinson, Catherine Treloar, and John William Jackson were each fined 10s., with tho option of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and Patrick Sinnett, an old and persistent offender, was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment.