POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 236, 2 October 1908, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

i Before Mr. R. W. Dyer, SJI.)

COMMITTED FOR TRTAL. Henry Thompson, who was charged on n half *core of informations with grossly misconducting himself in Carlton O-ore-road, Newmarket, and for whom Mr. J. B- Lundon appeared, was committed for trial. 1 TSCU3LOUS STEWARDS. A quartet of men belonging to the Rippingham Grange, by name Christopher (iiven, Edgar Arch Hope, Thomas 1 Anderton, and William Taylor, were j charged with having absented themselves j from their ship without leave. The men, three of whom were stewards, said Seri geant Hendry, had been giving their cap- | tain considerable trouble since the vessel had. been in port. Work had pretty I well gone by the board so far as they ! were concerned, and in its place they had J been .spending their time in a riotous and inebriated manner. "Just thought j we'd like a day ashore," explained the i .spokesman of the four, and the captain expressed an immediate desire that they might be kept ashore until the boat sailed. So thpy were remanded till Monj day, with orders to ue placed aboard ,if the vessel sailed earlier. BKSA2ONG PROHIBITION. Jane Wheeler denied emphatically that I she had broken her prohibition order. j She had not been in the British Hotel j sinre "Mother Goose"' was here. The i constable was equally emphatic that he i could never have made a mistake, having ' once feen Jane's features. She was in i that particular hotel on Tuesday, the ; lotb uic, he affirmed. "I was not," mii terjee.ted tbe indignant lady. "You're i wrong: it was on the Thursday," and the ,' Court reqμired no more evidence. She I bed to choose between £2 and one ! month. j Thomas Knox was convicted of having I broken the terms of his order, and in : view of recent circumstances was coni victed and ordered up when called upon. INEBRIATE. Knte McMauus was fined 10/-, default 4S hours, for the lapse, and £2, default a month, for the breach of her order, concurrent. Alfred William John Kelly, who hns quite recently contributed £5 to the revenue, by neglecting to observe the terras of his order, was fined a further £3, defiiilt one month; also getting ]£ 1 or seven days for drunkenness, sen--1 tences to be accumulative. Two first I oii'enders were remanded for medical attention, and one was awarded 10?- or 4S hours. A GIKX'S LAPSE. The girl who admitted last week having misappropriated several articles of feminine garniture from her mistress, at Epsom, last June, was this morning brought up to hear the Court's decision. The probation officer's report was favourable, and Mr. Marsack recommended her also to the magistrate'? leniency, remarking that the girl seemed to b* keenly conscious of the seriousness of her position. His Worship expressed the hope that her unfortunate position would be a lesson to her for the rest of her life, and convicted and ordered her to appear for sentence when required.