MAGISTRATE’S COURT
A COLOURED' VAGRANT. A squad of twelve inebriates, ten of whom were first offenders, were paraded before Mr. IV. G. Riddell, S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. There wag also one man charged with vagrancy. George John Conroy, against whom there were two previous convictions for drunkenness, was fined 265. with the option of 48 hours imprisonment. Alexander G. Dickson, with one previous conviction, was fined 10s., in default 24 hours imprisonment. The ton first offenders were, as usual, leniently dealt with. A coloured man, William Ball, pleaded guilty to being an idle and disorderly person in that he was found at 11.40 p.m. on Monday in The electric Iteht power house. In October last, Hall was convicted and ordered to conic up for sentence when called upon for a similar offence, and the Magistrate, therefore sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 7
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144MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 7
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