MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 236, 24 June 1918, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

—4 At the Magistrate's Conrt on Saturday ;«r. I'. V. I/rarer, K.M., was on the "Mich, and dealt with tho police cases. Osenr John O'Keefo, charged irilh wili«!ly ilmiHiging ft pano of glass, valued at 10s. Gd., the property of Atom's Brickiimn, ei>comj-band denier in Courtenay 1 luce. The defendant went into the ehop nnil jMcanie impertinent, mid when nsted to leave, it wns alleged, deliberately Iwke the a lass, lie was drunk at the time. He-was formally eonvided for drunkenness, and for damaging I lie glass was lined J(fe. wilh costs Js,, and ordered •to refund 10s. 6d,, value of the pane of tflnsa, in default llireo dnys , imnrisonment.

James Patrick Mooney, convicted of being found helplessly drunk in Waring ■laylor Street, was ordered to pay 17s fid medial expenses, with tho option of five dnys imprisonment. On a. charge of •stealing two Lotties of mm, six Lotties of champagne, one Lottie of whisky, and two bottles of hock, of the total value of .C 8 175., tho property of William Herbert, lie was remanded till Wednesday. Convicted of camimltint; a nuisance in Lauibloii Quay, George William Jackson was lined .£2, with the option of servin" loiirleen days in prison, and for drunkenness, there being two previous ennvic|ons, he was convicted, and a prohibition order, lo be effective for twelve months, was issued against him. J: or insobriety Frank Vincent Gully, against whom I here was ono previous conviction, was fined 10s., in default fortveiglit hours' imprisonment. Three first ollcmlers were each fined 55., with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment; another, who failed to appear, hnd his hail of 203. forfeited; a soldier was ordered lo be handed over to the military authorities, and another was lorrnally convicted.