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“Case Is Adjourned For Another Week,” Kingston Whig-Standard. May 30, 1932. Page 2. --- In Police Court this morning, Magistrate Farrell fixed the hearing in the case of Dr. R. J. M. Montgomery, of Toronto, charged with assault arising out of the alleged attempt to remove by force Joyce Fitchett a six-year-old girl at Victoria School on the morning of Thursday, May 19. The case will be heard on Monday morning next. 

Chief of Police R. J. Robinson had a number of witnesses in the case summoned and was ready to proceed today but it was announced that T. J. Rigney, Crown Attorney, who was not present, had arranged with Dauglas Slater, counsel for Dr. Montgomery, for a week's adjournment. The accused was not present in court. 

Reginald O’Flaherty, a young man from Montreal, who pleaded guilty to stealing a car, the property of Charles Morrison, Jr., Wellington street, early on the evening of May 17. was sentenced to one year in the Ontario Reformatory. The magistrate stated that O’Flaherty had a very bad previous record. 

An able-bodied looking man ,out of work and short of cash, was charged with begging on the street. He denied the charge. Constable Orval Brown said that at 3:30 Saturday afternoon, he received a complaint about the man stopping people in cars and others on the sidewalk and making an appeal for money. The officer said he could not locate the accused at the time but In the evening took him into custody. 

“I was not begging," protested the accused. “Give me a chance and I will get out of the city." 

“What were you doing then?" asked the magistrate but the accused offered no explanation as to why he was holding up people. 

“I find you guilty," said the magistrate "but I am going to give you a chance.”

Three months in jail was the sentence imposed on a drunk as it was found that it was his third time before the court under the Ontario Liquor Control Act.