POLICE COURT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Leonard Clark Baird was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, on a cnarge of drunkenness. MOTORIST CHARGED. Allan John Wilson, a Milton resident, pleaded not guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car in Manse street yesterday. When Mr E. J. Anderson applied for a remand on bail till Monday, Sergeant Boulton said it was a bad case. The remand was granted and bail was allowed in accused Y s own recognisance of £SO, conditions being that he report daily to the police and refrain from driving in the meantime. CHARGES REDUCED, Herbert Charles Abernethy (36), Henry Baxter Flett (40), John Richard Maloney (48), and Robert Forsyth Lloyd (26) all pleaded not guilty to charges of behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk in Crawford street. Flett admitted a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a horse, a similar charge being denied by Abernethy. After hearing evidence by the police that the men were singing and dancing and using bad language in Crawford street at 1.30 this morning after attending a horse sale and trucking till 9 p.m., the magistrate reduced the charges to that of drunkenness, and convicted and fined each defendant 20s. Abernethy and Flett promised that they would pay the cost of stabling their two backs last night*
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Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 15
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229POLICE COURT Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 15
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