POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 165, 14 July 1910, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. O. Cutten, S.M.) THE DBUNKABDS. Denis Tracy is one of those -who has grown old in the drink 'habit, and has developed into an incorrigible, against whom neither punishments nor prohibition orders avail. He was sent to Pakatoa Island for 12 months. Samuel Beattie has a wife and family somewhere, and. he is always extremely anxious i about them he gets into the dock, ' which ie fairly often. To-day the charge -was, as usual—drunkenness, and breach of order—and he was fined £2 in default seven days' imprisonment. James Whiteiaw and William , Quinn wefe each fined 10/ or 48 hours for drunkenness. !Kve first offenders -were severally fined 6/ or 24 hours, and two forfeited bail, £1. THE BY-LAWS. Two Devonport 'bus-drivers, named William Thomas and Thomas Crabb, Were each fined 5/,- costs 7/, for having left their horses untended in Marine Parade. Alexander Russell was fined 5/, costs 7/, for having left a heap of stones in jEast-street without marking it with proper lights at night. INDECENCY. .James McCormack admitted having committed a grossly indecent act in Vic-toria-street, and was imprisoned till the rising of the Court. THEFT. ' James Mason, a well-known offender, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a handbag from the Northern Steamship Company's goods shed on the Railway wharf, and was committed to the Supreme 'Court for sentence.