POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 135, 7 June 1904, Page 5

POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

o j (Before Mr Kettle, SM.) i - 1 The Drink.—Axel W. Barkman, who • did not appear, was fined £2 upon being ' i convicted of drunkenness for the second I time within six months. A first-offender I I who had not recovered from his dissipation, had to be remanded. > Settled.—A remand had been granted ( in the case of Leonard Chitty, whose wife asked that he should provide sure.l ties to keep the peace. Mr Skelton, on i behalf of the complainant, asked that '■ the application should be withdrawn as 'an amicable agreement had been effecti cd. The ease was struck out, and .! Chitty was ordered to come up for sentence on a charge of causing a breach of the peace in Henley-street, Parnell. | Maintenance.—Thomas McKeown was >j ordered to pay 10/ per week towards ! the maintenance of his wife, who was '■' represented on behalf of the Society for I the Protection of Women and Children by Mr Brooklield. An elderly man named Alexander Finnegan applied for maintenance orders against his sons Thomas, William and James, who agreed to pay 5/ each weekly upon the father promising to enter the Costley Home. The charge against Samuel C. H. Buck, that he' failed to maintain his wife, was struck out owing to complainant's nonappearance- Mr Reed, che defendant's solicitor, remarked thaf'Buck v. Buck" had been running through the books of the Court for fear or five years. A Sailor's Theft: John Teare Curphey, formerly a sailor on the scow Vesper, pleaded guilty to stealing articles, value . £0, from the vessel. William Spargo. . the captain, stated that after Curphey i was paid off two aneroid barometers, an , oilskin coat, a shawl, rug, and pair of i boots were missed. He identified the articles, which had been recovered by ! the police from various second-hand dealers. Detective _faddern, who gave evidence of arrest, said that the accused bolted when he saw witness and another detective in an hotel. Curphey was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court.