MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 280, 15 August 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

A FOUR DAYS'CAROUSAL.

The business at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning ■ was conducted by Messrs. J. W. Ellison and I. Salek, J.P.'s. "This is his fourth offence in four consecutive days," said Inspector Marsack, when Daniel Keane pleaded guilty to drunkenness. Accused ' also admitted that he made use of obsoene language when being taken into (custody. "He *»"!' i lonr- 'ist of previous convictions, totalling thirty in all." added the inspector. . "In. the mans own interfsts, I ask that he bo sent to gaol." Keane was fined 405,; in default seven days' imprisonment for drunkenness, anil was sentenced to a month's hard labour on the charge of having used obscene language.

Harry Young was acousnd of having used obscene language in Kent Terrace. Evidence was given by a constable and a military policeman thftt accused used the language in a house in Kent Terrace, where a search was'being mado for a 7 1 ,"'* 1 ? desorter. "I was stopping a tight, remarked , accused, "and if the police had, come a couple of minntes sooner I should not have been hero." Inspector Marsack stated, that the houso was a place of ill-fame. Young was fined jBS, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment. A young man named Phillip Trelor LiHdy was charged that on or nbout March 11, at Levin, ho forged an order for the issue of a railway ticket for use on the AVellimrton-Mflflterton railway, and did utter tho same to the stationmaster .at Mastorton. ' Accused was remanded until; August hail heing allowed, self, in the, sum of £25, anf! one surety for a similnr amount.