POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

I' •'■'•-"'' :™ -, ' g - (Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) ; a. '-■■ ; Egß BSCWSAS9S.. . -Ah old man named Alexander McGil- '_ veray would not admit that he was ~ drunk down town last night, and seemed . mightily surprised to hi>ar irtnn the : constable that he,had heeh so helplessly , drunk that he had to be almost carried . into a cab. He was fined 10/,, or 48 hours. . William George Br ever made his third , appearance in the dock, wearing on Iris ■ face the cuts and bruises which fre- , qucntly come the way of men -who drink pto brawling point. He, also, was fined s 10/, but he. was warned that ■if he continued to .appear at ; such short intervals as he had a been doing, his punishments would ■be made much more severe. Arthur Tayi lor and Frederick Skeen, both young < fellows, were likewise fined 10/ or 4S hours, and Arthur Slowman was fined : £2 or 7 days, for having gone home drunk in spite of his prohibition order. A BIO'ZCZJS THIEF. The youth George Alexander Gibb came ) up for sentence on a charge of having stolen a bicycle at Hamilton. The probation officer did not recommend probation. It was the first time that Grfeb had been convicted of any offence, but it i was by no means the first time that he . had been guilty of dishonesty. He was . sentenced -to four months' imprisonment i in Xnvereargill gaol. A SHOT IN THE WIGHT. ( Nieolaus Papesch was charged that on l the 27fch June be caused actual bodily [ J harm to George Jackson by snooting him jin the back. with a shot gun.; aaii, £uxither, vriLk having attempted to murder I / George Jackson. Mr. Stanton appeared . J for the accused II George Jackson was charged with hayI! ing, on the 12th April, wilfully broken ' / nine panes of glass, and oa the 27th • j Jime one pane of glass, the property of ■ i Nieolaus Papesch. Mr. B_ Singer appear'led far the defendant. Jackson was •J serred with his summons only last night, and Mr. Singer -was not ready to proceed , with the case. Ifr. Stanton preferred that both cases should be heard on the same day, and asked ior a remand. The .police, wno prosecuted in both cases, 1 ( offered no objection, and the hearing of iboth cases was set down for Tuesday I next.