MAGISTRATE'S COURT
POLICE CHARGES. Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided over a short sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. Nellie Nelson appeared for the fifth time within Bix months on a charge of
drunkenness, and for the second lime within the same period on a charge of breaking a prohibition order. His Worship said that he was prepared to treat the offence on this'occasion as having arisen out of the seasonal festivities. Hn would, therefore, make the defendant a sporting offer. "If you are locked up again for drunkenness," said His Worship, "I shall have to send you to Pakatoa. In the meantime, however, yon will lie convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon."_ Several iirsl offenders were convicted of drunkenness and discharged. Others who did not appear had their bail estreated. Two young men, Arthur Barnes and William D. Henderson wero charged ivith having on Christmas Day dajnaged a i>l.itp-<rln« <-indow. valued at .SisM'ie property of Itarantze Bros., in Cuba Street. The. two were remanded on hail for eight days. Florence Palmer was convicted of insobriety and was fined 10s. She was also ordered to make good- damage done to the extent of Is. Gd. , ■Michael O'Brien admitted having stolon ,Cl. the property of a returned soldier. Tt appeared that O'Brien and the soldier spent some time in eirh other's company the other day, and had a meal together. While the comnlainnnl was' h™din<r over a table O'E l- '"!! (ml,- nw.iv his nnrso and went off. The soldier followed, ami sirceedetl in meoveri«<r the purso, but. fonivl nftenvards there was ,C 1 missim? from it. The accused stnM »> Court thnM'io llioff wn« the result nf hi" recent drinking bout'. The noliee said (hat he had 1R nrevinis cniivHionc f or various nef including theft. His Wnr'hjp r«enrdcd " eonvicii"" "nil inflict wl - fmp nf ,f?. T'"> s'in> nf nineleen shillings found n" O'BHe'i'c ne«nn chovtlv after the theft wi" to bo handed over to the complainant.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 4
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331MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 4
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