POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 115, 16 May 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M.) THE DRUNKARDS. A young man named James Pullar began to compile his police record by getting drunk and misbehaving in the Prince Arthur Hotel on Saturday night. When he was there the landlord gave instructions that Pullar should not be served, for the reason that he was drunk. He then told Pullar to leave the house, and challenged him to fight, and would not go. A constaihle came along, and he managed to eject Pullar after a sharp Ktrujarg-le. The j-oilng mnn said, today that he was not drunk, but he aduiittpu 1 that he had refused to leave the house. The evidence that he was drunk was overwhelming, however, and he was convicted on both charges and fined £2, in default seven days. Thomas Davey «iiid William Barker, two rather persis- ! tent drunks, were each fined- £1, in default .three days' imprisonment. Geor- ' gina O'Shea, Mary Whittingham, William ! Thomas Riordan and James ilcQuoid were each fined 10/, in default [ 48 hours. John Wynne was convicted of drunkenness and prohi- n bited, and John Angus, who was before the Court on Saturday, was eon- { victed and discharged. -John IMiHer and a first offender were fined 5/, or 24 hours, i and three other first offenders, who did' not -appear, forfeited their bail, £1. Edward MoMahon, charged on three t informations with having entered licens- j ed premises while prohibited, was fined £3 or 7 .days.

ASKED FOB A BENNY. Sarah Vallack, an old woman, would not admit that she was an idle and di - 1 orderly person, but she did admit that she had asked a man for a penny for a tram" fare on Saturday evening. Far < from being idle, she insisted that rshe earned her living by the" sweat of her < brow, and she went on insieting on this ' and other things until she was told to stop. Then the case was tried. It appeared that the woman had been more or : less frequently in trouble, but only on account of "a drop of drink." She was more or less tinder the influence on Saturday, and she certainly did: ask a man, who happened to be a police sergeant in plain clothes, for a penny. The sergeant endeavoured to persuade her to go home out of harm's way, 'but when he found her -wandering about the ! streets some time later, he had her arrested. The Magistrate thought that ■ her curious condiict was probably the result of excessive drinking, and sent her to gaol for seven days. LANGUAGE. Denis O'Keefe wae locked up for drunkenness a day or two ago. and lie asked' - Mr. Griffin, licensee of the Hobson Hotel, to bail him out. Mr. Griffin refused, and on Saturday O'Keefe, who was evidently cherishing a grudge against him on account of his refusal, got more or less drunk, and went round to the Hobson Hotel, and poured forth, a flood of obscenity and filth in the hearing of one of the girls employed in the house. He pleaded guilty to the charge of obscene language, and was fined £2, in default seven days. Marius Christian Larsen, and a decentlooking young fellow named George Armstrong, were charged with having ' had a fight in Queen-street,"and Larsen with having used vile language. Arm- j strong, it appeared, was having a meal at ' a coffee-stall when Larsen came along i and used language to him which would have provoked almost any man to fight. Armstrong fought accordingly, but after he had done his best to avoid trouble. The "Magistrate was satisfied that he had not been to blame, and dismissed the information against him. Larsen was convicted, but, as he denied that he was the man against whom the convictions against one Larsen had been recorded, ho was remanded until Thuradav for interna.