MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4894, 5 December 1894, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

MASTERTON.-WEDNESDAY. (Before Messrs M. Caselbero and T, E.PriceJ.P.'s.)

Jas Bassett alias Honry Phillips, was charged with having no visible lawful means of support. Accused pleaded not guilty. SorgeantMoArdlo stated that tho acoused, against whom thoro were several previous convictions, was found drinking with a female prisoner on Saturday last. Liter on complaint was mado that they were unlawfully on premises at Lansdowne, Ho found thorn drunk again yesterday. Thoywcre a nuisance and a menace to public morals. Ho had arrested tho accused and the woman yesterday evening. From complaints made he found they wero drunk near the school and in Chapel Street on that day and on Saturday. On Saturday tho accused had promised to leavo the town but he did notdoso. The accused was not a wanted work or elso ho would havo taken the two chances given to him, in place of which lie had been drinking with the woman about Mastorton. Accused said he had worked for sorcral people in town, cutting grass and doing garden work and fencing. He had done seven days work in the past three weeks. Constable May gave evidence in corroboration of that given by tho Serjeant.

1\ H. Ibbetson stated that the man and woman now in Court wcro very drunk on tho main street on Monday, They were near the public school and were using iifthy language in tho presence of the school children.

Accusotl asked to bo allowed a to go away to get work. Sarah Aldridge, dim Igoe, was charged with being an idlo and disorderly person. Accused pleaded not guilty. Sergeant McArclle gave evidence that since Saturday last the woman had been drinking in company with the other prisoner in the public street, and was making use of bad language. The woman was well known to the police as a woman of bad charactor.

Accused pleaded guilty to having broken a pane of glass at the Royal Hotel on Tuesday last. John Walker, barman at the Royal Hotel, said that the man and woman before the Court had been at tho hotel on Monday evening, they were drunk and were refused admittance, Ehoy took away any parcel they had left. On Tuesday morning they came to tho hotel and were refused drink, and when put away from the house the woman broke tho window with her umbrella.

Accused Baid that a parcel belonging to her had been left in the hotel, and it was because she could not get it that sho had broken tho window.

Tho Bonch said that it appeared a pity that a strong able-bodied man should be continuously in gaol, but the conduct of the accused was such that they could not impose a more lenient sentonce than one month's imprisonment with hard labour. Speaking to tho woman, tho Bench considered she was the worst of tho two, and a disgrace to womankind. Sho would bo sontenccd to one month's hard labour. They would advise her when she was released from gaol to join tho Salvation Army wk>re she might becorao a shining m

; Leaving the Court, the woman said that she wanted her clothes, and when she got out she would como back to look for the m. The Bench called her back and warned her that if sho came tojJlosterton again and miscond ted herself she would receive the extra e sentence the law allowed,