MAGISTRATE'S OOURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2038, 25 March 1907, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S OOURT.

' at . i "° b s" r ? sri-ttss SS Darrell cl,.r ß cd with betas found drunk in Albion Lane, pleaded requested' to dolT The police Stated that he wanted to fight, aud brough stones into the hotel and refused. to quit until the police were sent fo_ Ho was fined £3 and costs 2s, or seven days’ hard labor. Ituteno Ahuroa, charged with boing found drunk in Peel street on 22nd inst., was fined 10s and costs 2s or -IB hours’ hard labor. Accused was further charged with committing a grossly indecent act in 1 eel street, and stated that ho was so drunk that be didn’t know what ho was doing. After hearing the police evidence the Magistrate sent lnm to

prison for seven days. «, Janies Rhodes, charged with being an idle and disorderly person and having no visible means of s«Pß olli > pleaded not guilty. —Const. O Hara stated that accused had been loafing about the streets for six weeks and sleeping on seats along the river bank. He asked the constable, nlio sva s in plain clothes, if it were safe to sleep near the bridge, and if he would he locked up. Accused stated that he did not remember seeing witness, whereupon the Magistrate interposed, “Perhaps you don’t remember seeing me a few minutes ago?”—Constable Irwin said that accused had been cadging from people. —Accused made a rambling statement in his defence, in which lie said that tile evidence was entirely wrong. He had paid for a bed at a hoarding-liouse, and had merely rested, as he could not walk far, a bad leg causing trouble. He had served as a soldier for his country, and asked for leniency, saving that he would go up the coast immediately. However, the Magistrate did not see liis way to overlook tlio offence, as accused had made himself an intolerable nuisance, and he would be. sentenced to three calendar months’ imprisonment. Detective Maddern referred to the Dennett-Yates case, and stated that £1 2s had been found on the former and £1 5s 6d on the latter. He asked that it be handed to Florence ’iVatsou, from whom it was stolen. The Magistrate said he would make - the order accordingly.