MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

VARIETY 0E POLICE CASES.

Captain Hennah and Mr. R. D. Hanlon, J.P.'s, presided over yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. On tho application of thy police, Egniont Button wns remanded for a week on a cliarge of being an idle and disorderly person. According to tho police, the'accused hus been sleeping out for some time past, and behaving in a rather strange manner. A sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment was imposed on Patrick M'Carthy, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a watch, valued at i' 3, the property of William Arthur Pearce. SubInspector Emerson stated that the. accused had been five times previously convicted for theft. . Fines of 10s. wore imposed on Lewis Podesta and Arthur Joseph Langhani, who were charged with behaving in a threatening manner in the city. ihoniM Edwnrd Owen, similarly charged, said that he had acted in self-defence, and was convicted and' discharged. Oswald .Norman Thomas, whose name wae also called in connection with the oftence, (ailed to appear, and war. fined 40s. . A reroaiid till Friday wns granted in the cases of Joseph Bradbury and William Smith, who are charged with nav\ns» stowed away on the steamer Kunrvv on her recent voyage from Newcastle to Wellington. ' Nellie.Hadfield end James Walker were'remanded till to-day on charges of ' having been concerned in the management of a houso of ill-fame in Holland ■Street. ■ William Fulton wns sentenced to four, teen days' imprisonment on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, ,m tjiat he begged alms in Molesworth Street. Polico evidence-was to tho el* feet that Fulton accosted pedestrians in Molesworth Street on Saturday evening, and asked for the price of adniieeion to tho Artcraft Theatre. Fulton had been before tho Court nn provious occasions. On a charge of using obscene language in Courteuay Place, William Anderson was fined MX in default fourteen days' imprisonment. Convicted and discharged for drunkenness Peter M'Carron waa convicted and ordered' to pay '13s. Gd., the cost of damace done to the cell fittings at the lavnnaki Street lock-up. For insobriety Minnie Pomroy and Louisa Maitlnnd wero convicted and discharged, and John ]?"iincis Webster was fined 10s. Seven first offenders were leniently dealt with.