POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 179, 29 July 1909, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs W- Buneaa" and F. J. it- •■' Ellisdon, J's.P.}' : ? THE ©RUNXARDS. James Crotty is a man. pas<( ■-■• middle age, who works hard as, a rule-i'J and. drinks har4 sometimes. A. week ago he was arrested on charges of diunken- : , : ness and obscenity, but he was in such a a nervous condition that the ilagistrat* . ;'■ sent him to ga,ol for medical treatment. This morning he admitted haying been .-■-.-i- :- ---drunk, but in reply to the charge ofo/ obscenity said that he could not remem» be.r, because he had been in. "the horrors." He -w&s convicted., prohibited, ordered to come up for sentence whea called upon, and to pay 22/6 expenses* James Downey was charged on six in« : formations with drunkenness and "correlated offences. He was remanded until to-morrow to appear before a ary Magistrate. John. B. Dunn, found drunk ip. Grey-stjreeti was fined'iO/, or' in default 48 hours. Gerald Fitzgerald and Mary Mathiesori, a : nd three first, oh fenders w.ere feed 5/ or 24 hours. ■■■■■■' VAGSANCT. A- few days ago, one wsls. before the Co.urt charged with vagrancy. He told the Court a heartrend' ing story about how he had .been, af.' rested just as he was setting out forihe country to go to work. He was granted a remand to give him an opportunity to ■ proye Ms ease. morning he ap* peared again before Mr Kettle, aad he failed to substantiate Ins story. The . Magistrate said that he had no .doubt that the taan was one .of those wjo assaulted and robbed drunken men, ani to whom the recent robberies in the town • were all to be accounted. Accused .tes* sent to prison far three months. A HOTEL WASTER." John Binnie is .an able-bodied"'. maa : , and" fairly astute, but he does noifc Tyorfcand he .drinks. He was found, .drjmk-ia.; • Queen-street yesterday, and this aiora-' •■ ing he was charged -with drunkenness,'l and with being an idle and disorderly', pereon in -that he' had -insufßeieat Jaw- 7 ful mearis -of support, The. man. lias- .•■■ been under pqlice ohseryatioji ; ' time yast. He has ma-dc -no attempt,"to"earn an honest Kying, but has speßjtMj -ti,me loafing about hotels w ( ith dru|Jcett men 'looking for beer. Also the" rjwlice suspect him of getting -the ion drink by -robbing drunken men/ ' The accused's own story was that he "occasionally did some casual .labour, >ut he could give no satisfactory explanation of how and where and for -whom he ■ ■had worked. Also he -couJd remember having earned only -18/6 in three weeks/ r and ie has 'been drinking- the time. He protested that his .trouble 7 was' all due to drink, and asked t|e bench to prohibit him and let him.go/. The v bench took his advice about jjjie '.prohibition .orderj : but sent him',to '..-'•■': for a m<jnth .as weil.. "-...■' " "-.| UNIAWFUILY ON PREMISE*. Herbert FraAer is a ypurig man, .who 3 came to town not "-f comparatively large i his possess.io.ri. Pc ifeoftcked .favrn all j "the money on ji drinking for; '■ •the last two or ttlvree .sstye . jias -beea ; destitute. JHe --was -discovered la3T-"6ight" sleeping in an ouffiouse, and ;he tqld'the ;' constable 4hafc he Ead slept there -for tie j two nights previously. .He jyromked -to go.back to work jf Jjfberated,-.and he was ■ I convicted and or.der.ed to cQtne up for sentence when (callpd .Mpp.n.. ■';;'.'-"'".' , - \ STAND-,irP PI©3RX. At about P.; 30 .last evening- theje -were about 150 people in .waifihjng a .Stafld-iip. .fight tyio \ under-sized .jueo Jiames ,Jame3 Eedmond ; and Thomas "ponqhye. A poEce "officer came along, and the JOien ,w.ere r arrested..%l. This morning they were each fined £1, or in default were sentenced to imprison.-1| ment for a week. INDECENCY. George Thomas Hutton, charged -with j ■having committed a grossly-indecent act [ ; .in iVictpriarS.tre.et,-was s.ente.nced tto iipi- ji prisonment for .14 days with Mid | labour. : THE THIE3F EROM LOJippir.; I William JMitchell is the assisted immigrant—or, rather, it ivas jijs emigration which was assisted. tSome- w«ll-meanin? people in .London sent :hißi frqiti there, .but ; nobody at this «nd gase him any help. V-ery-sQpn after 'he .-came 4ere - ;he -eqinmitted ttwp .tbefk 'in .-4. jr&ther if _bare-faced manner, .but the '~. who tried him dealt v.cry -leniently with. .1 .him because of .his apparent..jxeiiaK^ ■.■;; .of body and mind. He was .incorrigible, : J' however, and on the 6th July"lasf heiTVfSrfl found prowling about shoj>s 'with his t pockets -full of articles «iore : or.-leis-il valuable. This morning he pleaded not ; | guilty to-three cha-rges -of -t-hett, *ut Ms j Story-was such a preposterous.-Jine that . it had no hope.qf qredence. He was con- ,: victed and sentenced to three hicntii&' • imprisonment -with hard labour. . J' ADJOUKKMEHTS. William Gibson was remanded until ij Tuesday next -on a charge of being about j to leave the Dominion without providing. ! for the ;rnaintenauce-o| "/ijtegitimate child. ■■••■• ■. .. ■. "Henry Marxett, -charged, tin: :psro informations with breaches .<)f the motor regulations, was remanded for a week, is! A BBOKEN WINDOW. Charles Jessop and William Ee#ii|ji were convicted of having brokeif"a dow in a boarding-house in Hobson- v] street, and were -each .fined 38/t, .»nJ ] ordered to pay costs. THE S3»LAWS. Richard Kemp, for riding a '.bicycle ~'"; after dark witjlout a .light, was fiaei ?/-; costs, 12/-. S}-dney Day, for leaving a vehiflle standing after dark without a light in - .-. street in Newmarket, was lined l/-»- 'A costs, 7/-. ■■•;"'. /• ■ aJHEFTt ' A gifl of fifteen years of guilty to a charge "of ..having'stplen cer- i ; tain mtiQlss. .of jewelry, I?/-:i J.t .was --shown that .the .girj \ a disposition to ;be tToublesoaie jand it<T M get into bad ways, and the, urged ihat -she ought -to -he-placed*-.restraint in -some -suitable instit|iti on She was convicted, and committed-by ■«M*sH Cutten, S.M., to St. Mary's Industrial! School. p