MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

* : Mr. TV. G. Blddell, S.M., was on tho bench at the Magistrate's Court yesterday and dealt with the police cases. Nellie' Wells, for whom Mr. P. J. O'Ecgan appeared, pleaded guilty to using obscene language in Argvle Street, also to being a rogue and vagabond within tho meaning of the Police Offences Act. Mr. O'Kegan pointed out that tho language used by the woman was comparatively niild for such offences, and her record was not. a very bad one. She was convicted in 1916, also in July last year. He asked that the accused should not bo sent to gaol, but be given a ohancc. On the first charge she was fined 405., in default seven days' imprisonment, and on the Becond she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within a period of six months. For using obsccno languago in Lambton Quay, Bernard Tlaran was fined £3. with the option of 14 days' imprisonment. John Madden, who was released from prison a few days ego after serving a term of 21 days, was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, in that ho was found by night on the enclosed premises of Ernest Scotland, 54 Mtilgravc Street. The accused pleaded guilty, but said ho had work to go to. .The Magistrate warned him that he must got to work or he would find himself in prison for ifio winter. Madden was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. On being convicted of drunkenness for the second time, Daniel Sullivan was fined 10s., with tho alternative of 48 hours' im prisonment.