MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

POLICE CASES. Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., presided in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. John Douglas Stark, a labourer (aged 30), was charged with drunkenness and with fighting an unknown person. He was fined 10s. on the first charge and £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, on the second. Michael Martin, a seaman (aged 50), pleaded guilty to a second cffence of drunkenness, and also to a charge of casting offensive matter on the street. He had 42 previous convictions. He was fined 10s. on the first charge ■ and £3. in default three weeks’ imprisonment, on the second. Frederick Petersen (aged 23) pleaded guilty to fighting Cyril John Hawke (aged 23), and was convicted and fined XI, Hawke, for fighting with Petersen, was fined £2. Thendrig Marselyn Gjerstein, charged with being a rogue, and a vagabond, elected to be dealt with by the Supreme Court and was remanded until Wednesday. George Broughton, a labourer (aged 52), a technical first offender for drunkenness, was also charged with a breach of his prohibition order. He had 51 previous convictions. On the charge of drunkenness he was fined 10s., and on the second charge £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. Joseph Lance Lants berry (aged 39), on a charge of attempted suicide, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within the next 12 months. He was also ordered to pay hospital and medical expenses amounting to £22 ss. 6d. Oscar Brown, a seaman (aged 30), and Harry Knox, a labourer (aged 42), second offenders for drunkenness, were each fined 10s.