MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 302, 10 September 1918, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

• \f WEEK-END CELEBRATIONS. The usual week-end'celebrations liad sequel in the. Magistrate's Court ' yesterday, when proceedings were conducted by Mr. I\ Y. Frazer, S.M. Two elderly , working men named 'George Pearse and Guy Cookburn were , 'charged with having occasioned 'a. breach of the peace iu Taranaki Street ■ on Saturday. Senior-Sergeant Williß ' said that the two men were liaying. a stand-up fiiht -in the street about 5 o'clock in.the 1 evening' Cookburn' denied beingithe causo.ot the Jdißturbanpe. ♦"This gentleman Btnick-me first," he •. said, pointing to Pearse: It was stated ; that Cqckburn bad been . before tlje ■ Court over'-': fifty times. -'."Fighting :in the Street is a-public nuisance, even if . 110 great harm is done," remarked His Worship, who: fined each accused £1, in defau]t"72 liou'fs' imprisonment. _. ? "TTiis Jl nitfn'V6(iuires no introduction : from me," -said ! Senior-Sergeant Willis in the case of George Harley, who was charged with drunkenness and;-with the breach of a prohibition order. "This is his sixty-fifth appearance here." Harley was fined £2, in default teven days' imprisonment, for the breach of' the order,' artd was convicted and dis-v charged on the charge' of drunkenness: James Wallace admitted having been drunk, and havipg broken the conditions of his. prohibition- order. "A friend of mine in; the back, of the Court has £15 of miue, sir, and if you •will be good, enough to fine me I will be very thankful toyou,'.' blandly sug-.. gested Wallace to the Beifch as soon as 'ho was "charged."' "I'have not 'indicated that I would do otherwise/' smilingly | replied. His Worship. "This is his forty-fifth .appearance xhere," said Senior-Sergeant Willis, who added that) although Wallace was a hard-working man he had. a very formidable list. "I did over nine months of my order before I was caught," said Wajlace. "I met a couple of old schoolmates, and had a couple of drinks too many." "He was laying in a stock;" stated the Seniorr Sergeant, "for he 'had two flasks of whisky on him when arrested." "If •you pile'up the list much morel will nave to send you for a trip to Roto Eoa," said His, Worship to accused, who was fined £2, 'in default , seven days' detention, for a breach of the order, and was convicted and discharged for .drunkenness. "Eh, Paddy, ' come round here and pay up the £2, called out Wallace, gleefully, to a man standing at the back of the Court-room. Before "Paddy" had time to'come to his friend's assistance Wallace was requested to leave tho dock, being informed: as to . the correct procedure to be' adiSpted" iii the payment of : the 'money. ■■■'.. Edgar Ernest Bartlam .was .conyicted and discharged ■ for • drunkenness, ajid was sentenced to 14 days'hard labour for committing a grossly indecent act in Taranaki Street. On a charge of having committed' a nuisance in Lombard Street, Herbert Moffat was fined .£2, .in-default-seven, days' imprisonment,-.and was. convicted and discharged on a further charge of insobriety. A soldier named George Valler was convicted of insobriety,' and was ordered to be handed over to the military authorities. . _ One first offender for insobriety was remanded for a week's medical-treat-ment, and two others .were, each fined ss. . F. Neweth was ordered Jo pay 10s. for the maintenance of eacli of'his fcttc children in a Salvation Army.., institutioii, and was ordered to pay-£47 10's. for past maintenance in respect of each child. -.' I ' 1-—-''.,"''..-