POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 32, 7 February 1910, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs. D. B. Wallace, Bickri Goulding, and F. J. H. Ell is don, J\P.'s.). THE DRUWKABW. William JoTin Cole .trie amttci drunk in Hobson-street oa Gtfnrdaj night, but yesterday he became go {Q that he had to be taken to the Hbspltal. He did not appear to answer the charge this morning, ani he was remanded for a week. (John Bead, for having been drunk in Vietoria-etreet <n Saturday night, "was flaei £3; in fo. fault, seven, days' imprisonment. Jβ. chael Edward Dugga-n, a.dßcenMooldaj well-found young man, ch&Tged wift drunkenness and indecency in Great North-road, ■was convicted and fined 10/-. Joseph Kelly was fined-10/. or. 48 lours. Joseph Gobbie forfeited his bail. Two first offenders were ilio dealt with. ALLEGED TmrptjTKF.r.Mnay Thomas Bean was charged that on the 4th January, at Whangarei, -Rifle in the employ of of Christchurch, he received a sum of £37 IC/6, the property of George Davis, and failed to account for it. Accused, wh» was brought back from Sydney yesterday, was remanded for eight daji. DISORDERLY AOT> OBSCEHE Henry Robert Chappell f»e eharpi tbat he was disorderly and drunk in' Queen-street on Saturday, and that•Vβ used obscene language in the Brietl* Hotel. Accused went into the-IMsUe' Hotel already moTe or lesa drank, ant was there refused. liquor-. Then he b» came Hoisy and disorderly, , ijj,t r finally he was persuaded to go into jie-'etrait. There he was seen to assault an oil man, and to misbehave generally, ad he was locked up. He iras convicted;* both charges, and senV to gaol ; tol three months of hard labour. Barbara Craigie qualified on Saturday night for two additions to her' list of about 50 convictions, drunk, and using bad language, jßi , lady has been convicted of vagrancy several times, and of drunkenness,; obscenity and such offences many tiinei She has been punished severely at times, and. at other times efforts have teen made to reform her. The remit for good has been practically nil, for sin has compiled ter account since January, 1904, and for a considerable portion of that time has been in gaol or in homes of one sort and another.' She was sect "to gaol for a year.

THEFT. James Home was charged that toing the month of December he stole t lady's gold pin, rvalue 12/6. Accwed was working as. a porter at a boardinghouse, and he stole the pin from a lady who was residing there. He afterward* pawned the fin, and the theft yn* thereby discovered. He pleaded "guilty," and "was sent to gaol for thitt months. ALLEGED ASSAULT. Edward Bowles -was charged that M the 6th February he assaulted his wife, Agnes Jane •Bowles, by kicking her on the eye. There were several stow* hinted" at when accused's solicitor »p\ plied for an adjournment. The poliM allege that there was an assault and a violent one, and that it occurred il Albert Park last night, at a" time when the park was full of people. Defendant alleges justification, and denies the msault, and complainant denies the justification. At any rate, Mrs. Bowles b*» a very bad eye indeed.. Accused waf_ remanded for a week.