POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 123, 25 May 1909, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M.) THE DRUNKARDS. Charles A- Sullivan, who appeared as a habitual drunkard, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and in the event of another offence, said Mr Kettle, Sullivan would find himself on the Island. Michael McMichael, another "habitual," was sent to Mt. Eden for three months. Henry D. Mackay, the third man who was up for his fourth offence, was prohibited, and remanded until Saturday, pending further, inquiries into his case. William R Mclndoe and Richard Harris were charged with having been disorderly while drunk at Newmarket. Harris was also charged with having unlawfully supplied Mclndoe, a prohibited man, with liquor. Both men admitted that they had been drunk, but Harris denied that he had supplied liquor to Mclndoe. They met a man named "Mr Fritz" on Sunday morning and he had a bottle of whisky from which they all had nips. This charge was adjourned until Saturday morning, in order to allow the attendance of "Mr Fritz." Both men were fined £1 for drunkenness and Mclndoe was ordered to pay an additional £'2 for having broken his prohibition order. William Beeby, who had been recovering for the past week, ,was convicted and discharged on payment of expenses. Daniels admitted, without argument that he had broken his prohibition order and his vows of future sobriety. He wag fined £5, with an alternative of spending a fortnight at Mt. Eden. William Kennedy, a young bushman who had finished up his "spree" in the usual way, by being locked up,, was fined 20/ and ordered to return to work. George Sims, a young prohibitee, was ordered to find a collective penalty of 30/. Pakatoa for twelve months was the suggested remedy for Clifford William Payne, another prohibited individual. He was given a fine of 30/. Two firßt offenders were fined 5/ and costs, and another forfeited his bail. THREE MONTHS. John Hogan, defended by Mr. W. E. Hackett, was charged with drunkenness, a breach of his prohibition order, and with having assaulted William F. Gillies and Mary Gillies. A further charge of vagrancy was preferred against the accused. Sub-Inspector Hendry said the accused was before the Court- some few weeks ugo, and was convicted on a charge of vagrancy, and ordered to come up when called upon. On th e representations of his mother, he was prohibited, and one of the conditions of his release was that he should not go near his brother-in-law's house, but should live with his mother. Since that time,_continued Mr. Hendry, the accused had been living the same idle, drunken, vicious life, sponging on unfortunate women, and yesterday went to Gillies' house while under the influence of liquor. Hogan asked his sister to get some more drink for him, but her husband refused to permit it, ' and was assaulted when he had gone out of the house. Later on Hogan returned and ill-treated Mrs. Gillies,. After the evidence had been -aeard In support of this statement, Mr. Kettle said:—"lf what the police say is true, aild I have no doubt that it is, you are a dissolute blackguard of the lowest type, and the only place for you is gaol." j Hogan was- sentenced to three months on each of the charges of assault, the terms to run concurrently. He -was convicted On the other counts, and was or> dered to give an explanation of the allegations of vagrancy later in the day. THE SIMPLE LIFE. An old woman named Christina Larmki was described as "a vagrant pure nml simple." The police stated that she had been sleeping in a tumble-dowh shed among some trees on Mt. Eden, and when seen by Constable Lipscombe, her clothes were saturated. "She lives on charity," said the Sub-Inspector, "and she is brought here to see if something can be done for her. She does no harm to anyone, but some morning we may find her dead under the pine-trees." The old woman protested that she lived in Onehunga, and earned money as an'itinerant hawker. She was remanded for a week in order to see if arrangements could be made for her admission, to a home. The police undertook to make full inquiries into the circumstances of her case. A USEFUL STOWAWAY. Michael McMahon pleaded guilty to l having stpwed away on board the Matakana from London -to New Zealand. One of the ship's officers said the defendant did two men's work in the stokehold coming out, and the work he rendered was easily equivalent to his pass- i age money. The ship was short of firemen and trimmers, and McMahon's services were most opportune. The defendant informed Court that he had' a wife and lamily in England, and had been working in America. •He was thrown out of employment by a strike, but being unable to get work in the Old Country, ie 'stowed away on a New Zealand bound steamer. He was convicted and discharged, with instructions to visit the Labour Department, having informed Mr. Kettle that all he wanted was work of any description.