POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr C. C. Kettle, 6.M.); CAUTIONED. Corbett Richard Cresswell, the recent disturber of things at the Royal Hotel, appeared again with a clearance ticket . from his medical examiners, and elected this time to plead guilty to the charge . of trespass, under srjme slight protest. His Worship decided to convict and let • him go, with a caution not to repeat the performance, and with the proviso that he leaves Auckland forthwith on a visit to"some relatives in the country. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A young girl, whom Sergeant Hendry described as having been suffering from real or inaginary trouble until her mind .became unhinged, pleaded guilty to having attempted to poison herself some days ago by taking a quantity of LysoL The girl, Who was a cripple and appeared to be keenly sensible of' her position, . was convicted and given over to the ' •charge of her father, who, undertook to do everything possible in the way of restraining her from a repetition of the attempt. REMANDED. A curly-headed young, man of olive complexion, nemed Emanuel Senna, appeared under accusation of having yesterday stolen, a pair of trousers belonging to one Gypyren Hannah, jfr Lundon, who defended, applied for a remand until Monday, Sergeant Hendry making no objection. Bail was allowed in one surety of £25. A CHANCE OF REFORMATION. Ella Bassett, who entered Court car- ! rying her eightcen-months' old baby, the paternal parentage of which she was preI sently induced to reveal to the Magis- ! trate, was charged wit-h being idle and I disorderly. According to Sergeant HendI ry, the girl's mother had for long and I vainly wrestled with her slatternly and ! loose habits, and finally had been driven ito turn her from home, with the result I that the police placed her under surveilI lance. After arrest yesterday Sirs HutI chison took charge of 'her, and this moxriirig that lady agreed to accept the girl as an inmate of the Door of Hope. The child was committed to an industrial school, His Worship ordering note to be made of its father's name and whereabouts for future reference. INEBRIATE. William Power and Henry V»*rigg were ' each fined 10/, default 48 hours, for the second offence, the latter offender being i also fined £2, in default seven days, for breaking his prohibition order. I Thomas Smith, coming off the Kaikoura 1 after 51 days at sea, became so lost to Ibis surroundings that he utterly neglectied the proprieties in Wellesley-street last I night. He explained the sea air and a I little drink had that effect on him, I though never had he so committed hiwself before. He was ordered to be kept !in custody till 4 o'clock this afternoon. Another Kaikoura visitor was convicted and discharged. j YOUNG HIGHWAYMAN. A small boy scarcely beyond his first decade of terrestrial existence made a bold beginning as a highwayman yesterday by sticking up a little toddler of about half his years and demanding of her the 2/6 that was clutched between her diminutive fingers. He had not progressed far with his ill-gotten halfcrown, however, wheu terror struck his soul in the shape of a policeman, and tearfully this morning he repented him of the evil- But his reputation as a good boy being something indifferent, he was <»mmitted to an industrial school for reformation. THE TRAM TICKET CASE. The hearing of one charge against James Percy Parkhurst, the Epsom barn car-sweeper, of stealing some £7 12/ worth of Onehunga return tram tickets on or about the 4th inst., -was continued this morning, Chief Detective Marsack conducting for the prosecution, and Mr J. R. Lundon defending. Henry Leonidas Bladder, a clerk at the Epsom barn, stated that be gave out to Penfold his block on June A It was not the custom of the clerk to examine the block prior to handing it out. Penfold went to the bench, examined his block, and returned with a complaint that some of his tickets were missing. The duties of the accused as cleaner would take him into the room where the pigeonholes containing the blocks were. The blocks were in the open pigeon-holes, and not iocked up. The bundles contained 250 tickets, which were not counted, and no mistake on the printer's part had yet come to his notice. Conductors did occasionally complain that tickets were missing. From May 29 to June 3 the block in question remained untouched in the pigeon-hole, while the revenue journal showed that the block was not used between May 27 and June A Another clerk said that there had been occasions when tickets had been dropped by conductors, and picked up and handed in by other conductors. To Mr Lundon: On rare occasions when a man had been late and his place bad been taken by another, man, the late comer's block was used by the substiI tute. _^_^_____^___