POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

I THIS DAY. (Before Messrs. J. J. O'Brien and T. Peacock- J.P-'s.) i The Drankards. —Margaret vviifcie was convicted of Inebriety for the sec- ' ond time within six months, and fined j£ 1 or a week's imprisonment- A first [offender forfeited £1 bail. Carl JoFn ! Patterson had been found drtmk on the • Manukau-road in charge of a horse and ! cart. For this dangerous offence he was I fined £1 with costs. ■ No Explanation..—Frank Evans was ! charged wftii stealing a china clock, i value 10/, ttte property of some unI known person. Constable Cox stated '< that he met Evans m the street yesteri. day carrying the clock. As it was an unusual thing for such a man to have the witness asked him to explain where lit came from. Evans could not do so, I and was arrested on suspicion of theft. ; The accused could give no explanation to the magistrates, and in view of his prerious record of thefts Ue was sentenced to three months' hard labour. Dismissed. —John Pates summoned Elizabeth Keenan for using insulting language towards him. asking that the I defendant be bound over to keep the : peace. When Pates had given his evidence it apparent that the expressions complained of were not used to him personally, bar he took action when he learned that he was be inn a based m a shop in Pon.-ronby-raad when he- was ! not present. The Bench dismissed the I case. I I —■■"—™