POLICE COURT.
At the local police court this morning before Messrs Stiles and Kent-Johnston, J.’sP., John Spelman, charged with being found drunk in Main Street, having been convicted for a similar offence on the Sth, pleaded guilty and was fined £8 in default seven days imprisonment. The Justices stated that if accused came before them again a prohibition order would be taken out against him. Oscar Rogers pleaded guilty to being found drunk in Avenue Road, and also with committing a grossly indecent act in Main Street. Constable Finlayson said that accused appeared to be a very inoffensive man when sober and no doubt drink was responsible for the act being coi;.—i-.-a. The Justices impressed on accused the gravity of the charge against him, for which he was liable ,to a year’s imprisonment. Under the circumstances, howover, they would deal very leniently with him. He was convicted and discharged on the first count, and on the second charge was convicted and fined £i, in default seven days’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1295, 10 September 1914, Page 3
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168POLICE COURT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1295, 10 September 1914, Page 3
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