POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 135, 9 June 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before 3tEr. E C. O.Kten, S.M.); DKCNKENF'SS. Ralph Snovpion was -s.ed 5/ or 24 ; hours for drunkenness, --rd John Burns j and John Elliott, who pisaded guilty to I similar charges, were d?~.U with in the I same manner. Louis a seaman, I admitted that he was d: j.isk in Federal- ; street yesterday, but ha.-i no recollection iof , using any 'had language. He was j convicted and discharge. , * on the first j charge, and fined £1. or three days' im- ! prisoumeal; for his intemperate language. i Fred. Waiterstrand was convicted and I discharged on an information accusing j him of drunkenness to which he pleaded '; guilty, and for having broken his pro- ! iubition order was fined £S or 7 days' imi prisoninent. Four first offenders were i ilned 5/ or 24 hours' imprisonment, j BREAKING, ENTERING AND THEFT. William Scarbroa, a very plexioned Mulatto who has lived in Auckland for a considerable ti/ae pleaded not' guilty to a charge of having broken into the residence of a railway porter named James Bovaird au-i stolen therefrom watches and jewellery, valued at £5 1.3/6. The evidence for the police was that Bovaird left his house, which is situated in Nelson-street, at about 7.30 p.m. on the Ist inst. When he returned at about 11.30 p.m. he found that it had 'been broken into, entrance ha-ving been effected by the forcing up of a back i window. The premises had been ransacked, and the contents thrown "all over • the place. Witness identified a gold i watch and braid chain, two gold sleeve- ' links, and an American five-dollar gold • piece, which: had been recovered by the i police as property belonging to him, and i which he had left in the house. Scar- , ibroa lived next door to Bova-ird who the ■ following morning found footprints lead- • ing from his house to the fence dividi ing his property from Searbroa's. Four l young fellows gave evidence to the effect that they had met accused on the fol- ■ lowing day in Victoria-street, and he then > showed them the articles that had been stolen from Bovaird's house, some of i which were sold to various 'tradesmen. I When they asked him where he had got . these articles, he replied "Oh, I've done a 'bust' down- by my place." They . understood this expression to .mean that he had broken into a house and stolen I the jewellery. To one Si these witnesses [ he said he had found the coin at the bottom of Grey-streeti and to Detective Cox he said the goods had been given to him by a, man whom he didn't know, I and whom he had met accidentally in I the street. Accused was committed to ; 'take his trial at the next sittings of the ' Supreme Court. BREACH OF A PROHIBITION ORDER. 5 A respectable-looking young man ' named James Mangan pleaded not guilty ' to a charge of having committed a 6 breach of his prohibition order by enter--1 ing the Alexandra Hotel. Mr. J. R. " Lundon, who appeared for defendant, 5 said it was true that he had entered i the hotel, but it was solely for the pur--5 pose of using the telephone to apply for 1 a job he had seen advertised in the k "Star." Chief-Detective Marsaek said I that was all very well, but there had k been numerous complaints that Mangan r had been seen coming out of hotels, and 8 no later than Saturday last he was seen " in Parnell in a drunken condition. De--3 fendant swore on oath that he had not been in Parnell for three months. His c Worship said the offence charged was c that of being "on licensed premises," and it was admitted that this offence had been committed. Defendant was fined s £1, or, in the alternative, three days' c imprisonment. a (Before 3lr. C. C. Kettle.) ' c SEPARATION ORDER. I- A young man named Edward Donnelly a was "charged with haying made threats II against bis wife, Emily Donnelly, who y asked that he should be bound over to 3, keep the peace. Mrs. DonneTly also ,t asked for a summary separation from n her husband. The summonses were ;- heard together, and his Worship made y an order for a summary separation, 5/- -- a week to be paid for each child. The c application for sureties of the peace was ,s adjourned until Saturday morning, bet fore which time the defendant undertook i- to leave Auckland and get work. Mr. i F. W. Brookfield appeared for the applicant, and Mr. W. E. Hackett for the defendant.