MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided over a tdiort sitting of tlie Magistrates Court on Saturday morning. , . A fine of <£5. in' default seven days imprisonment, was inflicted on J® lll '® t'ower for committing a grossly innocent net in Manners Street, and on a second charge of being drunk ho wfis linedi with the alternative of • twenty-four" hours' imprisonment. ■ Margaret M'Hufili, for whom Mr. J. Scott appeared,, pleaded .guilty. to a charge of loitering in Vl ™" b^ d t w immoral purposes. Mr. Scott -a jd_ th t the woman had been working duiing the past five veal's. She had a record, out she had'iiot been before the Court sine# September. 1914- The case was an wi nt. e<l one. and accused was not suie that slio spoke to anyone. Counsel stated (•hat a hard-working young fellow was willing to marry tho accused, and no Hsked Ilis Worship to take that into consideration. M'Hugh was convicted and ordered to come up for ? cntel f e called upon within a period of tweho m Hcnrv Edgar Gonlding nnd Frank Daweev wero charged that on Marcil,. > Auckland, they did conspire by fi au ent means to 'defraud one Allan Donaldson of c£lso. In asking for a remand, Chief-Detective Ward said that the I two men were arrested by Detectno Black on board-the Moeraki prior to that vesse a departure for Sydney on l'ndaj. the two men were remanded to appear m Aneklnnd on Saturday, Ma " h „ 2 ''„ bail was fixed in each caoo at <C3ofl and one surety of '.£3OO.
JUVENILE COURT. A short sitting of tl» Juvenile Court was held on Saturday, Mr. E. lage, b.M., "T'liov ten years old vas convicted of tn'kinsr a bicvcle and converting it to Ins own use. 'L'lio mo'.ber of the lad uas re'ent. and said that she was separated from her husband, and her earnings wsra pnmll. Tho bov was committed to tho Wellinirton Bcceivniß Home, as he had been in t.roublo before. Another lad eleven years of age pleaded cuiltv to three charges of theft. Oil each occasion the lad stole Jjl. Die l>oy was admonished, and p need under th« care of the iuvemlo probation officer for a neriod of twelve months, anil the parents were ordered to refund tho stolen money.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 6
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381MAGISTRATE'S COURT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 6
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