THE COURTS'

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 37, 9 March 1909, Page 2

THE COURTS'

WHISKY HAWKER SENT TO GAOL. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Cliriiitehurcli, .Monday. Alfred Bet'hord was sent to gaol for three months without the option of a fine for selling whisky in Tuam street 011 Sunday morning without a license, lie sold .'is worth and gave up another bottle 011 being arrested. Accused had been in the habit of hanging about the streets for the purpose oj ijellins whisky. HABITUATES OF RACECOURSE'S. Wanganui, Monday. At the Police Court to-day three habituates of racecourses were charged with being idle and disorderly persons. Two were sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor, the third being convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on. The evidence of tlie police allowed that they had associated with racecourse spielers and bail been seen at illegal practices on tli3 first day of the Wanganui races, where a great deal of pilfering was indulged in by tlie troublesome class. SLY-GROG SELLING. Wellington, Last Night. Arthur Francis New and Leonard Russell were each fined £lO and costs bv -Mr. W, G, Riddell, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning for sly-prog selling in Wellington. PENGUIN* SURVrvoil I.M|I'KISONED Wellington, Liiht Night, diaries Jackson, a seaman, one of the survivors of the Penguin wreck, was convicted of indecency in exposing himsell naked at a window of a house near u public school, lie was sentenced to one year's hard labor.

W'AIt.VIXU TO ORCIIARDISTS.

Nelson, Last Sight. A( the Alotui'ka -Magistrate's Court. •Mr. Jl. Kyre-Koiinv. S.M., lined a fruitSrimvcr named Hugh Williams Co anil Wits lor negleeting to eontrol eodlin moth. r (-'liarc;k auaixst a scuoolTKACIIIiR. I'almcrtson X., Night. , \\m. Watts, a lonelier at (_k>lle"e i street School, was yesterday charged . With assaulting a seliolar. .Medical aiul other evidence was given allegin" that , the hoy had been cruell.v thrashed witli a strap, till lie was considerably bruised. Mr. A. 1). Thomson, S.M., dismissed the without calling on the defence.saving that, ir.ider the circumstances the boy had not been unduly punished. A man named .lames Clarke, a laborer, residing at-Nolantown, llawcra, was arretted by the police on Saturday on the charge of having on March (j stolen £7 from one Charles Sattler, a new arrival . 11 "in Switzerland. The accused appeared before the Court yesterday. Constable Houston said the principal witness was away in the country, aud lis < asked for a remand till Thurs'dav. Mr. ; Ryan, who appeared for the accused, 1 agreed to the remand, but aslted for n bail, which was granted, in self of one s surety of :CSO or two sureties of i°!i -(Star.

A well-known, business man of Hulls wa* arrested on Friday on a charge of stealing rooting iron, and remanded until Friday next, being released ou bail.