MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Cases at the Magistrate's Court were dealt with today by Mr. E. Page, S.M. "This mail's tongue appears to have got him into trouble previously," said SubInspector Martin, when John Bernard Smith, aged'3B, pleaded'guilty to a charge of using obscene language in the G.P.O. The accused used. the language complained of when an assistant at the Post Office told him there were no_ letters for him. The language was used in the presence of a woman.
' The Magistrate fined the accused £5, and ordered him to pay 16s witnesses' expenses. On a further charge of drunkenness Smith was fined. 10s. Default of payment was fixed at twenty-one days' imprisonment. ■ For his second statutory offence of drunkenness Charles McDonald Stewart was convicted and discharged, i. Leslie Clifford' Arthur Payne was further remanded until Monday on a charge of being found unlawfully in possession of explosives. Marjorie O'Keefe, aged 42, was remanded until Monday on a charge of stealing £93 in money from Walter Byrne.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 12
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165MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 12
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