POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 146, 19 June 1908, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

I " - .. ''"* (Before MrTsfc'W. Dyer, S.M. ROADSIDE CO—CFORT. - John McCanh, wrapped. himself con fortably in his blanket; placed his swa under his head, and proceeded to slee on the roadside at 7 Epsom:; last nighi and. here he was • discovered (locked i slumber by Constable Lipscombe, all vi conscious of the hoar frost that was sett ling on his beard.-. V. He didn't show th least gratitude at'being"roused, and ac companied the police officer to the sta tion with much reluctance. This morn ing he appeared on,a count, of being ai idle and disorderly, with insufficient law ful means of support. He objected ti the charge energetically, declaring hi_ self to be the possessor of a ban?dnj account, and on his way to a good bil let at Otahuhu when haled back. So !_ Worship decided, to dismiss the :n.':'or mation, with' a caution to the bivouac ker not to, make his couclv -in futur< on the. roadside, and the extfaction o a promise to hasten off to the Otahiitu employment, without loss of time wbaf ever. A WEEK IO GET Wt-HK. James Stewart, tee individual wh< was discovered holding animated con verse with the empty air at the street corner the other : night, was this morn ing accused of being an idle and disord erly, and pleaded not guilty. He hae been working, he declared, up till a fort night ago, and-was'sacked >rom his last job' because the boss • considered thai three men and a boy were not doing as much work as might have been reasonably expected Of them. Stewart was not regarded by the police as a particularly industrious ;or provident citizen but;' as it 'was nearly four years since he made his last appearance in the Police Court,, the magistrate decided to give him a week in which a find work, adjourning' the matcer meanwhile. RE-CANDS. An aged citizen, christened Robert McCullough, but familiarly known among bis riends as "Kauri Log," objected strongiy x> an accusation against himself of havng stolen some sacks, the property, of wine unknown. Yesterday Detective scott met McCullough" coming down Vie-;oria-street wheeling a barrowload of acks, and having regard to the acquaintmce he had of the wheeler, he requested >f him a little account of his venture, md last point of departure. Apparently he elderly McCullough did not feel it ncumbent upon turn to give any account, ,nd consequently he appeared this mornrig. The barrow-wheeler's indignation at he charge was great, and he offered to troduce all necessary vouchers for the lonesty of his venture at the time ot irrest, so a week was allowed him to ibtain them. The young man, James Charles Walters, .ccused of misappropriating moneys beonging to the New Zealand Laundry Comlany, between February and May last, ras this morning remanded further till Vednesday next, Detective McMahon tating that there were some sixty witlesses to be produced unless the other ide were prepared to admit the facts lleged. Henry Brown, licensee of the Falls lotel, Henderson, was on the sheet ao used' of several breaches of the Licensing ict in April and May last, including the upply of liquor to the woman Annie toacb, as agent for Thomas Pink, with-j tit- receivißg money of cheque iv "payient; supplying Pink with liquor while be man was in a state of intoxication; ad with permitting drunkenness on his censed premises. Upon the application f Brown's coun«l, Mr. Singer, the case 'as adjourned! until next Friday.