POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

. — »" l'• — —— ■»/;; (Before-Messrs"- 5 " J. ; Trercthick and -A. Walsh, J.P.s) ;•,":,, 7 the drunkards: ~-\ Join Willi—in Robinson is ■ alleged to have got drunk -and; made a disturbance, embellished with obscene language,-, in Grey-street last night. He was charged , to-day with , drunkenness,' obscene lan- , guage and breach of his prohibition ' ; or- - der, and remanded -to appear 'before a magistrate to-anorrpw. W-liamßums,' for his third offence of drunkenness , within the last, six months, was. fined £1, in default seven days'- •mpr__>nment.' James Hogan, charged on two informations with breach of his prohibition order, was remanded until to-morrow.._ TROUBLESOME CAPTIVES. James Walsh works at Waitakerei ■when he is sober; but he comes to town sometimes, and then be is always drunk. Last night he was very drunk in Symonds-street, and Constable Briggs | arrested him and put him in a cab. Then* the fun commenced. He scratched, kickled and bit at the constable, but the only I damage he did was to the cab. He was charged with drunkenness, with assault-' i ing Constable Briggs, and with having ' wilfully damaged a cab. He was' convicted on all three charges, fined 10/ "for I drunkenness, £ 1 for assaulting the. constable, and he was ordered to pay,/£2 Ito make good the damage to the cab. IHe had £2 8/9 in his possession .when , arrested, wiich amount was held by the Court, and he was allowed 14 days within which to pay the balance. i Duncan - Graham, a powerful young I man, who was arrested drunk in Queenstreet last night, also damaged tie cab |in which he was conveyed to tie lockI up. He was fined 5/ for drunkenness,' and ordered to pay 7/6 to repair the cab. A DISOBEDIENT FIREMAN. ) William Newlands, _ fireman on the. s.s. Cornwall, was taken off the vessel Iby a constable yesterday, at tie request lof the master.- He was then in a maud- [ lin state of drunkenness, and quite unfit Jto do his work. This morning ie was charged with having been drunk on the Railway wharf, and also with having refused to obey the_lawful commands of his superior officers. The evidence of the master was to the effect that tie man simply would not keep sober if he could get drink. He -was fined 5/ for drunkenness, and two days' pay for refusing to obey the commands of his officers. Tie Bench directed also that he be kept in custody until his ship sailed. ' A COWARDLY ASSAULT. , A young man named Percy Foley, well-dressed, and well-spoken, pleaded guilty to charges of having been disorderly while drunk and of having assaulted 'one Thomas Longhurst. Longhuret is an old man over 70 years of age, who -makes shift' to earn a living by gathering bottles, and such like odds and ends. Foley and three ' companions set upon [ him in, Hbhsbn-street yesterday, and _ij dulged in ; some rather rough horse play lat his expense. One way in which they sought to amuse themselves was to atJ tempt to make tie old man ■ swallow a ! crust of hard, dry -bread" which they found in his cart. This' hurt him _ good deal, and he called for assistance, with the result that one of his .four'tormentors, Foley, was arrested.- •He was .fined £5 for "assault, ...and 10/ for drunkenness: ' -•--•; ; - • ■-> AW IMPUDENT THEFT. • Charles Stanley Steer pleaded guilty to a charge that on the 18th March he stole from a dwelling in Wynyardstreet- an overcoat of the value of £2 10/, the property of James Lewi—. The theft was a particularly impudent one. On the date mentioned, Lewin purchased a coat in town, and ordered-that it be sent' to his lodgings in Wynyard-street. The parcel was sent up, and left on a stand inside the door. Accused was prowling about the place, and seeing th* parcel delivered, ie went into the house and took it. He got away with it unobserved, and at once took it -to town ami sold the coat at a second-hand shop. He- was sent to prison for three-months. OFFENCES.. . ' . An employee of a nightsoil contractor was convicted on. a charge of--leaving receptacles containing filth on .a footpath in --mouth-street, and. discharged. Robert Hyde was fined .5/, . with; costs "/, for having. allowed a horse to wander at large in Customs-street. . ;..„ "'. .Frederick Ernest Smith, for leaving. a horse' and. vehicle . unattended in-'tie street without chaining a wheel, was fined 2/6, with costs" 7/. ■.'■'-'■ John Began was fined 1/, costs .7/; for having allowed a horse to wander :a? large. **:*" ' ■■' ' * -'■ Abraluyn Bowden, charged with expectorating on the footpath in Queenstreet', was convicted and discharged. " , ' v Percy Townsend, for , driving a, -vehicle on a footpath at Birkenhead; -was ifined 5/, costs 7/.' :.. : «.-.',' ""'"' it A DESERTER,. ~.,.' ; John Baxter admitted having deserted from . H.M.s. Powerful on , the sth January, .1909. As there : are no warshipa in port,- accused -was remanded, for eight days. , • -_,i -...-;■_»•' jj. ••'. w