THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 310, 9 February 1910, Page 5

THE COURTS.

SLYHROti OFFENDERS. By Telegraph.—Press' Association. Jnvei'cargill. Tuesday. At the .Police Court this mornhiit Margaret McAulill'e. against whom several previous convictions have been recorded, pleaded guilty to having liquor for sale In the Invcrcargill no-license district. Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Mona Thompson, for assisting the .previous accused in the commission n f: the offence, was also ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Roderick a brewer's carte.-, was charged with ass'siing the worn ui Mc-Auliffc by delivering beer consigned to fictitious persons who were supposed to lodge in the house. Defendant wi» lined .£ls. Lieon and Lindsay, who were found on the premises, were each fined ,C2. THE CONFIDENCE TRICK. [s£■■; —_ Wellington, Last Night. In the "Magistrate's Court to-day Phil Brady, alias McDonald, was sentenced to three- months' imprisonment for obtaining £2 from a local jeweller on wliom he had worked off a sporting edition of the confidence trick, representing himself as a jockey able to putt his unsuspecting victim on to some good thingt- at Christchurcii races last week.