POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1910, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs. A. P. Friend and G. Wilkinson, J.P.s) THE DRUNKARDS. Patrick Walsh was convicted of his eighth offence of drunkenness within the last six months. The Bench thought ; that the only way to keep him sober was to send him to gaol, and they sent him to gaol accordingly for a sojourn there of three months. Two fijgj; 0 *„ fenders were each fined 5/-, in default 24 hours. Another who had cut his head badly by falling on a pavement was fined 5/-, and ordered to pay costs 17/6. LANGUAGE.: Alice Sarah Eadford was .drunk in Symonds-street yesterday, and while in that condition used some nasty lahcua«e. She was fined £5, in default 1 one month's imprisonment. A VALUELESS CHEQUE., Thomas Herbert Aitken, a man of about 2S years of age, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Cox and-Sweeney on a charge of having obtained £3 at PaMatua on the 3rd May by means of a valueless cheque. Defendant, was living at a hotel in the city under a name not his own, and it is supposed' that his intention was to leave 'by. the Maheno the same evening. He has previously served a term of three months ' for false pretences, and it is alleged-fiat '■ the present charge is only one of a series which will be preferred against him. He was remanded to appear at Pakiatua. in eight days' time. THE BY-LAWS. W. Delaney, a fruit hawker, was fined 2/6, costs 7/, for having stood toolono with his barrow in Queen-street. Geoffrey Montgomery, charged with having allowed a horse to wander, was convicted and discharged. A,' > J. W. French Avas fined £2, costs £2 4/, for allowing two horses to stray. BREAKING A POUND. James Johns admitted having let Ms cow out of a pound at Morningside .by sawing through one of the rails of.the enclosure. He had an explanation for ■his action, but the bench did not accept it as satisfactory. He w-as fined j£a,with costs £1 7/. A PETTY SQUABBLE. A Albert T. Ramsay was charged-on iwa informations with having assaulted 'two girls staying at 'his house. The-assault' alleged was a trivial one, and part of a disagreement between the parties,-and not a very serious one. It .was,alleged that defendant turned the.young women out of his house, and in doing so- exercised some violence. The bench declared that the case was not one Avhich should have been brought before the Court, and dismissed the information on the ground that the offence was trivial. Mr C._ E. Matthews appeared for complainant's, "and Mr R. Moody for the defendant. ; (Before Messrs. G. Roberts and G. Read, J.P.'s.). TBS BT-lAWS. Alfred Hutchinson, a fish hawker, was fined 5/, with costs 7/, for-standing withhis barrow in Karangahape-road longer I than Avas necessary. ..._..--.-.. - ALLEGE— PEBJC—S—V" , " Herbert Subritzki, master ; ot-: the schooner Greyhound, was charged that oil the 31st August, 19 —, at Auckland,, hacommitted perjury at the hearing of an j information charging him with a breach iof the Shipping and Seamens- Act in tho | Magistrate's Court. Chief Detective j Marsack appeared for the prosecution, and Mir. C. E. Matthews, for the defence. The -informant in the original summons was one Thomas McLaughlan, a seagoing cook. The story he.told the Court -was that on the 12th May Subritzki engaged him to act as cook on the Greyhound for one voyage, but he was engaged at the last minute and Subritzki failed to enter him on the ship's books, or to register him as required by t— Shipping aud Seamens Act. When the ship returned to Auckland Subritzki fold, him he could go. McLaughlan asked that his wages be paid, and Subritzki replied that ho had come on board the ship as a stowaway, and that he had merely been given work to do to pay for his passage. McLaughlan stated that there av_ no foundation for Subritzki's story, and brought an action against- Subritzki. Defendant stated that McLaughlan came on board the ship drunk, and did little or no Avork. McLaughlan was never engaged as cook, and when he came on deck next morning he was drunk. The Bench did not believe Subritzki's story and convicted him on the information. He was to-day charged with perjury in respect of two of the statements contained in his eAndence. The reason for the delay was- that the principal witness, McLaughlan, had gone to sea after the last case, and had not been found until recently. After e\ridence had been heard, accused, who pleaded "not guilty," and reserved his defence, was committed :to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £50 each.