MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THEFT FROM A SHIP. Mr. ,W. G. liiiicloll, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. A waterside worker named Charles Fries'pleaded guil;y io'stealing fruin the steamer lunnu a leg 'uf mutton valued at t'is. -Id. The oliVnce took plaOe on Saturday. Inspector Mar.sack t'ialed that accused iiad bton working on the Kamo, a vessel belonging to the Union BA-ain Ship Company,, and stoio tho mutton from tiie saip's safe. Accused' wlis fined in default seven days' impnsonment. John Auslow was* accused of having stolen a leather bag and contents. valued' at J. 7, the property of llonry Muiquccn. The bag was alleged lo have been stolen on Saturday, On tho application of Cliiet'-D-etective Bod,dam, Anslow was remanded ,mtil August. 5, bail being ailowed in 'the sum of JSfl. ' • : . . . Harry '.Phipps was charged with insobriety, aud with having ined obsceno language in Tory Street.' Inspector Marsack said the lnnguagjo was used as a congregation was coining out of' a mission service. Phipps wns convicted and discharged for insobriety, but was sentenced 'to 21 doys' imprisonment on the charge of obscene language. For the disobedience of maintenance orders, Gustave Myers wns fined <£3, in default 21 days' imprisonment, and Alfred AVelsh was convicted and sentenced to H days' imprisonment, tho warirint to be suspended so long as ss. per week is paid off the arrears, £i Is. '