MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 164, 5 April 1919, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY'S POLICE CASES,

Mr. P. V. Prazer, S.M., presided over yesterday's sittings of the Magistrates Court. Martin Carroll was sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge ot being an idle and disorderly person in that he habitually consorted with reputed thieves. Por insobriety Helen Read was fined tho amount of her bail, £1, • and Am. broso Patterson Williams was convicted 'and discharged and prohibited. 'J. Ellery, licensee of tho Prinsess Hotol, was fined Ah on an information of having failed to admit a sergeant of police to his hotel without delay. The offence took place on March 2d. William Price was fined £1, with 7s. costs, in default 72 hours' imprisonment, for having been on the Thistle Inn premises when they were required to be closed.

Mrs. E. Irving was ordered to pay l"s. costs on an information of keeping a dangerous dog. It was stated that the dog had bitten a plumber who went to defendant's house to clear a drain. Defendant stated that the dog n-asiruiet to Europeans, but she kept it to » "frighten off coolies." It did not like those people. J. Kwong Lee and Co. wero fined £i, with 7s. costs, for having sold cigarettes after 7 p.m. The D.1.C., Ltd.. wero fined jE2, with 7s. costs, for having employed a girl under 1G years of -ago without being in. possession of a certificate of fitness. It was explained that tho matter _ aroso through inadvertence, the girl being believed to be 1G years old. -. ■. Eeginald Charles Eobinson was fined £% for failing to register under the Military! Service Act. ' „. Suo Ken was fined 10s. for failing to notify the police of his chaugo of address. , , On informations of failing to attend drill, R. V. Penman was fined £&, E. B. P. AVhito Sa, and J. M'D. Johnson, T. M'Laughlan, and 11. H. Stanbridge .£1 each.