POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 194, 15 August 1904, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

■ ■■■■ ■" THIS DAY. (Before Mr G. C. Kettle, SM.) The Drunkards.—Two first-offem' 7 g drunkards were fined 5/ each i>ud ci -:s. Frank VVhorskey, convicted of his .■ -1> ond offence within six months, was recommended a prohibition order by i ;e Stipendiary, who said the Inspectoi of Police agreed with him that the or>rs were fairly effective in preventing drunkards getting drink. "At any rate," added His Worship, "they can do no harm." Sub-Inspector Black thought the drunkards got the drink if they wanted it, whether they were prohibited or not, and he did not apply for an order. However, Whorskey decided the uncertainty by saying it would dp him good, and the order was issued. He was fined £1 for the drunkenness. Alfred Ashenden was similarly fined, and also ordered to pay 10/6 for medical treatment.

Indecency.—Axel Bruse, who pleaded drunkenness as an excuse for committing an indecent act in Moore-street, was sentenced to 48 hours 1 imprisonment.

Taken 111 in the Cells.—The police stated that Lucy Weston Buck, who had been arrested on a charge of wilfully breaking three panes of glass at the dwelling of Ida E. Ellison, had been taken ill in the cells. She had been sent to the Hospital, and a remand was necessary. His Worship adjourned the case for a week.

A Woman Re-arrested.—A young woman named Jessie Wilkie, who had been convicted a few days ago, and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, had been re-arrested by the police. Sub-inspector Black stated that the accused was- leniently deal with by Mr iJlomtield on the condition that she would stay for three months in the Salvation Army Home, but she ran away on Friday or Saturday. Wilkie told the magistrate that she wanted to go to her own home, and she was remanded until to-morrow to be dealt with by Mr Blomfield.

Tobacconists' Sunday Trading. —Robert Roth and Robert Woodside, Queenstreet tobacconists, pleaded guilty to trading on Sunday, and were fined £1 each, the maximum penalty.

Overcrowding a Hansom. —A cabdriver named Thomas Lyons admitted having carried three persons in a hansom cab licensed for two, and was fined 10/ and costs.

Alleged False Pretences.—Chief-Detec-tive Marsack applied that a young man named John Atkinson, who had been arrested upon telegraphic information on a charge of obtaining a bicycle by false pretences, should be remanded to Napier, where the offence was alleged to have taken place on August Ist. Atkinson did not object, and he was remanded in custody.

A Cabman's Win. —Maurice Jacobs, a cabman, who was summoned for leaving his cab unattended on the rank in Queen-street, hotly contested the case, and had with him a copy of the City Council by-laws for consultation. Constable MeCarthney, who had laid the information, admitted when Jacobs questioned him that, although he swore in the information that he neglected to fasten the wheel of the cab, he did not examine it at the time. Jacobs swore that the cab wheel was fastened, a*i His Worship, saying he would accept his evidence, as the constable did not take the precaution to examine the cab, dismissed the case.

"Mad with Drink."—A German named Christian Kiljus, who pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Ponsonby-road, and was fined 5/ and costs, was also charged with resisting Constable Reid, who arrested him. The constable said the man was very violent, and suffered from delirium tremens. Witness was in plain clothes when he arrested Kiljus. His Worship said that no doubt the man was mad ■with drink, and did not know he was resisting a constable. He would be ordered to come up for sentence if called troon.

Prohibition.—William McDowell was made the subject of a prohibition order upon his wife's application. The police applied for the renewal of an order against Charles James Menzies, Newmarket, but Mr Beale contested the application on behalf of Menzies, the case being adjourned for a month to see if Menzies could keep away from intoxtcants without the aid of an order.

A Dirty Flock: Mr. P. H. Brittain, Stock Inspector, prosecuted Martin Schedeway, a Puhoi farmer, for being the owner of 95 sheep infected with lice. The defendant did not appear, and Mr. Brittain gave evidence that the infected sheep were found at the Epsom saleyard, where there were clean flocks. The matter was getting very bad, and other prosecutions were to follow. A fine of £5 was imposed upon Schedeway, and Mr. Kettle said he would deal very severely with him if he offended again.