POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 162, 11 July 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr E! C. Cutteh, ___.). THE DRUNKARDS. A young man '■; led Robert'"Fitton was arrested on oaturday afternoon drunk. He .fell, and when he got up he staggered, and then he held on to a verandah pole. He said 'that he had had only two pints of beer, and that his staggering was due, not to drunkenness, but to an injury to his leg suffered some time ago. The -Magistrate told him that if his acts "were so liable to be misinterpreted he had hotter leave drink alone. He was fined 5s or 24 hours. Hiram Nixon, some time of Pakatoa Island, was fined 10s or 4S hours. Robert Me-' Clure, a somewhat frequent visitor of late, was fined £2 or 7 days for drunkenness and breach of his order' Joines Trueman. was ' fined £2 or 7 days for similar offences. Annie Sargent and Robert Whitford were each fined 10s or 48 hours, and prohibited. Edward Nolan! and Matthew Stead were each fined 10s! or 48 hours. Stead went' to an hotel very j drunk and" tried to get liquor, but he was too drunk to be allowed to have it; and too drunk to u-derstand the licen-j see's order to get out. Consequently j he was cnarged also with haying refused to quit licensed premises when ordered to do. so by the licensee. John Reid was lined ss. or 24 hours, and Henry Boys forfeited his bail. Two first offenders were fined 5s or 24 hours, and another, an old age pensioner, was convicted and discharged. AN INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE. "Walter Harkins has been before the Court at frequent intervals lately on charges of drunkenness, land on the iast occasion, when he was charged also with being ah incorrigible rogue, he was •told by the Magistrate that if he did not get out of the town at once he would be apprehended again, and if that hap""pened, he would certainly go to gaol for a year. Harkins didn't go away. On •Saturday he was arrested more or less under the influence of liquor begging money from a man who complained to a constable that lie couldn't get" rid of the fellow.' Harkins denied all these statements, and said that things was terrible, that he couldn't get' work no how, and—what was a man"to do? The Magistrate took pity on him and sent him to a place where he might be. taken proper care of and made comfortable .for a months' imprisonment with hard labour in Mount Eden gaol. OBSCENE LANG"-*AGE. Andrew Sims was charged,with having used obscene language at Onehunga. The offence was conmmitted eai.'y last year, I but defendant left Onehunga and was hot arrested until Saturday, when he was found in the King Country. He admitted that he had used the language alleged, and.used it in a tranicar in which were a number of women.. 'He was fined £3, or. 14 days. THEFT OF A BICYCLB. A lad named George Alexander Gibb' was charged that on or about the 20th June, at Hamilton, he stole, a bicycle,' value £9. He hired the bicycle from a firm of cycle dealers in Hamilton, and' paid hire for one day only, but instead of returning it at the end of the day he ; rode it to Ngaruawahia and sold it to another man. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and was remanded to enable the probation,ofilcer.to submit-Vreport concerning him. SMALL FISH. Frederick Porter, a hawker, was charged with having sold flounders less than nine inches long. He pleaded "not guilty," and fought the case. During the hearing it transpired that the fish were hot flounders but dabs, fish closely resembling flounders in appc-.ranee, and that for these the minimum size is eight, inches. However, the evidence of the. inspector, who laid the information, was that some of the fish being sold by the 1 defendant were only 5. inches long, and j the Magistrate convicted the defendant, and fined him £1., , REMANDS. .. Bernard Olsson, charged on two informations with having assaulted little girls, aged 6 and 7 years, at Devonport, on Saturday, was remanded for eight j days. ■ ' ' ' I Arthur Parker was charged that on \ the'4th February he stole a tie pin, value j £5, the property of Charles Magee. He was remanded for a week. A SERIES OF CHARGES. Thomas A. Baxter was charged on seven informations with having obtained various sums, amounting in all to £11 1/6, and on seven other informations with having misappropriated moneys amounting to £13 2/8, which he should have handed to his employers. Mr Richmond appeared for the accused. The evidence for the prosecution was that the accused, a debt-collector, had obtained commissions fromseveral tradesmen' to collect some of their accounts. After haying met these men a few times he obtained j cash from them in return for his own i cheques, which af terwar- - were dishonoured. It was alleged that he must have known that these cheques were valueless, and further that he did not pay-to the persons employing; him the amounts collected by him on their behalf. . , Baxter pleaded guilty to the charges in respect to the. valueless cheques, and was-committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The hearing of, the charges of misappropriation is proceeding.