POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 66, 18 March 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutteiu S.M.) DBTTHKEMNESS. Patrick Foy, who admitted a charge of drunkenness and a breach of a pro hibition order that had been issuet against him, was fined £3. Henry McMahon, a prohibited person was charged with having committed i breach of the order made against him He did not appear, and a fine of £2, oi 7 days' imprisonment, was imposed. A coloured man —that is, a negro— who gave the name of Martin Saunders and who wore a patch over his right eye admitted that he had committed a bread of a prohibition order that had beei made against him. He was fined £2, o: in default 7 days' imprisonment. Henry McMahon, for breach of i prohibition order, and who did not answei to the charge preferred against him was fined £2, in default 7 days' imprison iment. An elderly saDorman named John £ Jones admitted that when he cam* ashore from his ship last evening he goi fairly wpII drunk But he did not thinl he was very bad. The story told by thi police was somewhat different. Thej said the accused was very drunk aboui 11 a.m. yesterday, and when arrestet became so violent that the constablehad to handcuff him. During this opera tion, he used some very hard nautica language. Mr. Outi-en fined him "£2, oi in the. alternative 7 days' imprisonmeni with hard labour. A VIRAGO. r A middle-aged respectably dressed wo man named Jane Wheeler denied thashe had 'been guilty of any species o inebriety in Albert-street, or for . tha matter anywhere else., last evening. But the "stars in their courses fough against her." A young fello-w who hap pened to 'be employed in the Star Hotc was coming along the street on his wa; ■home when he. saw accused being put ou of, or at all events refused drink in an other hotel. He came to his own place and, it seems, casually mentioned to thi barman at the "Star" that -he migifc ex pect the arrival of an unwelcome visito pretty soon. Sure enough, Mrs. Wh«£e turned up a few minutes later, and « once commenced to make things livel; - for the people in the hotel. She wa refused drink, and at once proceeded t assert what she regarded to be he rights. Her method was a simple one She got 'hold of an empty ginger-ibee •bottle which was on the 'bar, and takin; a "woman's aim" hurled it at the bar tender. It may be going yet, like Hal ley's comet, but it didn't get the bar man. This first attempt did not satisfy the lady, as it was a palpaible miss, am she at once packed up from the bar : syphon, and fired it at the man who hai refused h.*.r liquor. Another miss; bu the syphon bottle missed nothing. I was put out of action for all time. The] it occurred to some of the men employei in the hotel that it would be a good ide: if they emptied the hotel of an- undesil able guest. They put Mrs. Wheeler out (but in doing so one of them was throw) so heavily on the footpath that ihe sue tamed a contusion over the left ey which necessitated the*attendance of Di King. This morning Sub-Inspecto Hendrfey informed Mr. Outten, S.M., tha Mrs. Wheeler, when she took drink, to an absolute lunatic, and in addition t her other delinquencies, last evening sh had thrown stones through the window of the Star Hotel and torn a constable , tunic She got 12 months' -imprisonmen