POLICE COURT.
:. : • a. ..." - ' ■-.: -~.- . (fiefore.Messrs. B. Kent, C. 8. King, and J.-. Jerikin.) ; '," THE INSATIABLE THIRST. Thomas Kelly, who .walked -.._ 'his back /would break,] was .'fined half a sovereign. J .' ~ William Betts, a Pakatoan, whose term of freedom had only recommenced a month, appeared, vainly endeavouring to hide several abrasions on his nose. The inebriate made the usual declaration that he would "turn up the drink," but the Bench decided to place a price on his liberty, and fixed the. charge at 10/. Robert Biackledge, who has been off the boards for some time, paid 5/ for his -reappearance. Jive shillings was extracted from a first offender. A. TAR OR THE SPREE. An able-looking sailor created a considerable fuss in Quay-street last night, and was charged this morning with hav-' ing been disorderly while drunk, The man of the rolling main, who appeared minus coat, admitted his guilt. Thomas Richard Arms tend, the J-ghiable" sailor; was drunk when he caused the rows. In Quay-street he removed his coat and cftftUanged the universe to fisty encounter. A policeman got him to put on his coat and start off for his vessel, but there the Burns-Johnson craze took 'charge of him again, and again the world was called on to hold its end up against the pugilistic seafarer. The constable intervened, but as Armstead was looking for fight, ' he grasped the skirts of happy chance and set upon the representative of the Do- | minion Peace-Preserving {Society. A 5/ I fine was inflicted. BEAR BOOTS. Fritz Laffler and Edward Vetter, firemen aboard the Fifeshire, ineffectually protested innocence on the charge of stealing a pair of boots from a trimmer on board the vessel. They had taken the boots from the trimmer's bag, and sold them in a hotel for 2/. The men were not wanted here,; so the option of a fine was accorded. About £7 was due to each of them from the ship, and the Bench decided to relieve them of £2 of it. BY-LAWS. James Hack, William Leonard, and Thomas Bell were each fined a crown for breaking the byrlaws governing drivers of horses.
POLICE COURT.
Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 43, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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