POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

"(Before Mr. District-Judge Kettle.) The Profits Gone.—B. Brown, master of the cutter Flora, pleaded guilty to having taken sand from the shore inside (Rangitoto Reef below high water mark. Accused said this was the first time he had been caught. He got £2 for tbe sand. Fined £2 and costs.—S. Clare, another captain, for a similar offence, was similarly lined. Mr. McVeagh prosecuted ,on behalf of tbe Harbour Board. Alleged Perjury.—Christopher Marquis (defended by Mr. Lundon) pleaded not guilty to having committed perjury in defending a charge in the Magistrate's Court by denying on oath that he borrowed or received £5 from Charles Andrews on (March 16. or that he wain Andrews' fish market on. that day. Alleged Perjury.—The case against ; Christopher Marquis was resumed at 9.30 this mornings when further evidence was heard. Accused was committed for trial. (Before Dr. Carolam and B- O. Hendy, Justices.) ! Drunk.—ln cases of drunkenness, DunI can McDougal was fined £1 (or seven days); David Sutherland (deaf and [dumb), 10/; and George F. llosscr, for j being drunk in charge of a horse and I hansom, £ 2 and cab fare, or seven days. j Rosser. who had fallen off his hansom, ! appeared in the dock with a scraped j face and a bandaged finger. ! False Pretences. —George Allan, alias | Capt. Nella (defended by Mr. Singer), pleaded guilty to two charges of having obtained £4 10/ from James William Thompson, and £2 from Alexander Barren, his boarding-house keeper, by falsely representing that he had come from America to take charge of the electric power house of the Tramway Company at a salary of £S 10/ a week. Chief-detective Marsack said the accused had been- seventeen times previously convicted of false pretences, and three times of theft. The justices remanded tbe accused till to-morrow to come before a magistrate. A Young Defendant. —An eleven-year-old girl (defended by Mr. Gregory) pleaded not guilty to having used insulting language toward a married woman named Rosetta Beard. The language was denied, but it was stated the child, who had been on a visit to a married sister (a neighbour of the complainant), would return home immediately. On this undertaking she was discharged. Mr. Hendy said he was surprised that a married woman should prosecute such a young child for this offence. A Remand.—John Lemmon, charged with wife desertion, was, remanded till to-morrow on bail in two sureties of £50 each.