MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 1 April 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

"NOT PROPERLY DRUNK" ASKED TO STAND ON ONE LEG 9 "You are clwrgwl with having tan found drunk in I'urannki Street 011 Saturday," was the ,'iccusntion cast against Timothy Delnney before Mr. V. i'Yazer,' S.M., nt tho Magistrate's. Court yesterday. "Spare me days, I ivas not properly drunk. I jvas only slightly drunk," said Dolaney. "The inspector asked 1110 to stand on one leg, which shows I could not ihavo been very tight." "it all depends," remarked Mr. Frazor, "upon the success with which you carried out the experiment." "I was just going ilown on board my boat when arrested," replied Delnney. "The inspector he says to me, 'Stand oil one leg!' I have a sore leg, Your AVortihip, and can't stand very • long." (Laughter.) Mr. I'razer: There is 110 such thing as "riot very drunk." A man is either drunk or not drunk.

Delaney was fined ill, in default sev-enty-two hours' imprisonment. OTHER CASES. For charges of committing nuisances James Cooke, Alfred Newfold Hawthorn, and Thomas O'Neill wero each fined i' 2. Five first offending inebriates were each fined 10s., in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and one was mulcted in a penalty of 55., with tho alternative of twenty-four hours' detention. Another, who was arrested some days afi;o ill a condition which soldiers term "dinßbatic," was ordered to pay 17s. Cd. medical expenses. Constablo Dud- . dinsr stated that this nan told him that he was being pursued by "little men with big heads, much bigger than his, some of whom climbed lampposts and grinned at him." "Are you satisfied now that you were drunk?" asked Mr. Frazer of the accused after Constable Dudding had left the dock. "Yes, I am," was the Teply. Donald M'Donald.was fined .£3, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for a breach of his prohibition order, and he was also ordered to pay 17s. Gd. medical expenses, incurred as a result of his being arrested in a state of helpless drunkenness.

"This man was shouting that he was not a Bolshevik, and had been to the front to do his bit," said Constable Strachan in the case of Duncan Daniel Fraser. who was charged with having behaved in a dioorderly manner in Manners Street. "I was wondering whether someone connected him with another Fraser, not myself, who is stated to be associated with the Bolsheviks," remarked Mr. Frazer, amidst laughter. "That may have, been the cause of the trouble. Someone has evidently been Willing him out of his name, and he has obiected." Fraser svas fined .£l. Alexander Aspen was charged with the disobedience of a - maintenance order, the arrears of which amounted to JG4O is. The arrears were reduced to .£lO, and Aspen was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended so long as ss. per week is paid off the arrears, and bfil Is. is paid wekly in respect to the maintenance of defendant's children. An allegation of persistent cruelty was made by Mrs. Elizabeth Trengrove, who asked that a separation order should be mado against her husband, William Henry Trengrove. The Court granted the application, and ordered that defendant should pay maintenance at the rate of .£3 per week. Plaintiff was grauted guardianship of the children. Mr. E. Iv. KirkcaMie appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. 11. F. O'Leary for defendant.