MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 13

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with police and indictable cases at the Magistrate* Court yesterday. . . T One first offender for drunkenness was' fined the amount of his bail, 'lOs A young fireman j named Albert Henry Frost, who had interfered with Constable Conway while he was arresting the previous defendant, was sentenced to fourtoen days' imprisonment, a condition being that .he be placed on board his vessel before it' sails. ■ ■ '

A>rcus employee, Arthur Thomas Joseph Crawford, on a charge of fail ing to maintain his wife, was allowed his liberty, and decision in the matter was adjourned for one week. In the meantime, the defendant is to be riven the opportunity of providing a home' for his wife.

Charged with being a ToqUe and a vagabond, haying been found b y nieht without lawful,excuse on the premises or the Windsor, Hotel, a cook named Stanley Arthur Hayden, alias Arthur -Hayes, was remanded until Wednesday A further charge of stealing £18 10 s the property of Victor Eric Page, also'was made against the accused, who was refused bail. ;

Rowland Percival Osborne, 23 years of age, charge^ with tl» theft of I watch valued at £10 and shirt valued at 15s was remanded until Friday. ' A young man named Ambrose Joseph Lipinski pleaded guilty, to a charge of incest, and was committed to the Supreme Court for -sentence. Accused arrived from Blenheim under tho escort of Constable Healev.

' A Pi63^ n°t--.JPulty was entered by T-r?" , Tnstlf l / m- behalf of Henry Robert Charles Albert Smither ß , who was charged with indecent exposure Accused, who was arrested by Detec tives Eevell and Sinclair, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail beine fixed in two sureties of £150.