MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

* Mr. W. G. E-iddell, S.M., dealt with the police cases at tlin 'Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning. For committing a. grossly-indecent act in .Courtenay Place on Friday last, Stephen Coffey wns sent to gaol for seven days. . For drunkenness, Richard Henry Colgan nnd James M'Kennri were each fined 10s., iu default 24 hours' imprisonment; and Bellair Ward was ordered to pay medical expenses, lis. Gd. - Arthur J. Thompson, a member of the crew of the.s.s. Orari, convicted of being unlawfully absent from the vessel, waa sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and was oTdercd to be placed on board the vessel should she sail before the expiry of his term of imprisonmont. For playing hazards on the wharf on Fridav, James Grant, Samuel Jarvis, Charles H. Lawson, and Lawrence J. Taylor, wharf labourers, all of whom pleaded guilty, were each fined £5, in default 21 days' imprisonmont; Georgo Peters, who also pleaded guilty, but who, it wns stated, wns not a waterside work or. was fined £-1 in default 14 days' im. prisohmeht, fl-.id Henry Coleman, fcV whom Mr. C. A. T<. Trendwoll appeared, pleaded not gnilty to playing hazards, and wns remanded until to-day. He was allowed .hail iu one surely of .£lO.