POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 88, 14 April 1910, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Before ilr E. C. Cut tea, S.^L) THE ■iLllza. Alonagaan. for haring been drunk in tpite oi her prohibition, order, was fined £ 1, in default seven days' imprisonment. George Anderson Mas so ill wtien a constable dragged him into XewI ton Police illation last night, hopelessly drunk, that he had to be senX to the hot>-pii-al. lie was remanded for a week. Sarah Vollock was fined 10/ for drunkennes=, and W'iliiam Tiiomus Hammond and | Joim Miilo vrere each fined £2 for j breaches of their prohibition order. I Alexander Keid wa.-, prohibited on the Ist April, but he didn't .know tiiat it would matter if he had a few little drinks Lhat night. He had them, had rather many, in fact, with the usual resuit. He was not quite drunk, s-o the policeman did not look him up, but h« 1 was fined £ I to-day for having broken his order. Kave Wallace, charged on j two information* with breach of uer or- j der, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A WIFE-BEATEE. A yotuin man named Krnest i'ellcrson went to his home last somewhat under the innuence oi liquor, and without ajiy provocation whatever set upon his wife, and violently ill-used her. Fir.-t he hit her on the face with his clenched fist, tried 10 hit her with a pair of bellows, and then threatened to use a tomahawk. Fortunately, he did not j do so, but he 2:'.vc liis wife such a bad | time lhat she was not fit to appear in I Court this morning. Presently Con- j stable MeXamara arrived, and took Petterson away, l>i:t not without a struggle. Petterson pleaded guilty to-day to charges of having assaulted his wifp, ami with having resisted a constable, in the execution oi hus duty. He was sent down for a month. UNWELCOME IMMIGRANTS. Several member? of the crew of the Italian barque Doride were so enamoured of this country that they decided not to go bar-k to sunny Italy, but 10 stay J here- instead. WhTefore they ran away from "their ship, and thereby broke the I New Zealand law restricting the immigration of aliens. They could not write in English <in apalica-tion for admission LnTo the Dorain'on. so that they came under the designation of prohibited immigrants. When they deserted, the captain of the ve;is?l was at once informed by the Customs Departm. Nt that he must pay To the X-cw Zealand Government £100 for every deserter, and he offered a reward of .CIO each for their apprehension. Xone of the men were taken, until yesterday, when Constable Rogers found two of them, and housed them in the lock-lip. When tbry appeared in Court to-day, Mr A. P. Ridings, Collector of Custom*, asked that they be detained in custody until their ship leaves New Zealand watens in aibont two j weeks' time. They were remanded ac- | eordingly for eight days. j A CHRISTCHITRCH CASE. ' William Brown, charged that on the j 15th ihrrch. at Christenim-h, he obtained: from Messrs. Scott Brothers the sum of I .i-lri by mean-s of fal=e pretences, was j remanded to appear in Christehureh in I one week. i WHAT IS GAMING ? j Informations have been sworn re- | cently, charging several proprietors ot i licensed biHiarrl saloons in the city with! keeping gamiag houses. The cases wer-j ; set down for hearing to - day.! but owing to the fact tn.-i!, j counsel were not reach - to c"o ; on, were adjourned until next Thursday ! at 2.15 )).m. The defendants cited ■were '< lames Chalmers, Joseph Cutliberrson- J "ituotby 15. O'Connor, Frederick ,1. Wii-j liarns. John Harriett, Burnable H. Ford,! Jolin Jack.«on, and J. Ale Gill, and they I were severally charged as foJlows: That, ! being the occupies, of billiard siloon-s,! they kept the same as common gamin.j ! houses; that they used the same as com- \ mon gaming houses; and that they know- ! ingly permitteri same to be used as com- ! mon gaming houses by other persons. I Mr. Selwyu Mays appeared for the} prosecution, and Mr. i". Ka-rl lor the defence. Mr. .Mays stated that probably counsel would aprrce about the facts, and j that the oases would resolve themselves into an argument on the law. BY-LAW OFFENCES. Thomas Clegg was fined 5/, costs 22/ r for tying his horse in a roadway to feed it. Roderick George Mackay and Robert Henry Johnston were each fined 5/, costs 7/, for allowing horses to wander at large. E. Hines. cliarged with driving over a level railway crossing at other than a walking pace was nne.d 5/, costs 7/. Richard Marshall, for suffering his chimney to catch fire, was fined 5/, costs •lohn Graham was fined £1. costs £1 5/, for tailing to keep to the left. s)de of the road, and for driving negligently in Sy-monds-ftreet. A number of young men were fined 5/. costs 10/6, for boarding electric tramcars while in motion. The prosecutions arose out of an attempt on the part oi the tramways officers to put down the practice of hoarding cars before they reach the terminal starting places at times of the day cars are crowded. William Ward, for leaving a hawker's barrow standing in Vulcan Lane, was fined o/, costs 7/. (Before Messrs J. Catehpolc and M. Ca.-ey. .I.P.'s.) ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAULT. A middle-aged man named William Robertson pleaded not jruilty to a charge of having indecent 1\- a.-saultcd a young girl at Kohimarauiii. During the hearing of the case, which was not concluded when the "6tar" went to press, the Court was cleared. Accused was defended by Mr C. E. Matthews, and Chief Detective Mansack prosecuted. At the conclusion of the evidence) Robertson was committed for trial, hail being allowed, accused in £"200, or lwo sureties in £100 each.