POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 169, 19 July 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Eefore Mr E. C. Cutten, S3£.) THE DBUNEASOS. Harry Boys, a prohibited man, who will get drink, has had every kind of punishment except a sojourn at Pakatoa Island. The Magistrate told him that he would assuredly be sent there next time, and for this last offence which ' brought him into court, drunkenness and breach of order, was fined £2 or 7 days. I William Betts has been given a trial at Pakatoa, but the stay there didn't do him much good. He was repeatedly convicted of drunkenness when he was liberated, until in February last he was sent to gaol for six months for obscene language. He came out on Saturday, and had his first drunk the same evening. He was prohibited yesterday morning and locked up drank" last night—£2 or ! 7 days. Rosana Given and three first I offenders were severally fined 5s or 24 hours. INDECENCY. William John White, an elderly man from the country, was sent to gaol for ,24 hours for having committed a grossrj indecent act in Albert-street. SLEEPING OUT. William Shannon was discharged from gaol yesterday morning, after having I served a long sentence, and in the evenI ing was found sleeping in a city street. The constable who woke him up could get from him no satisfactory explanation of how he came there, and he locked the man up on a charge that he was an incorrigible rogue. Meantime it had been discovered that the man had simply been celebrating his release from durance by petting drunk, and this morning the Sub-Inspector said that he did not think the prosecution could succeed. No evidence was offered, and the information ■was dismissed. THEFT OF A BOAT. Two youths named William John ; White (Mr. Dunlop) and Daniel Cuthbert O'Brien. (Mr. A. Moody) were charged that on the 29th June they stole a dinghy, value £9, the property of Edward Joseph Grogan, master of the schooner Atalanta. The boat was left moored at the steps of Craig's wharf, and the two youths took it from there, "borrowed" two oars from another j place, and rowed across the harbour to j Birkenhead. They were tried without success to sell the t>oat, and, when that J attempt failed, they abandoned the ! boat, and walked to Devonport, whence they caught a ferry boat to Auckland. They left the boat at Birkenhead, and it has not since been seen by its owner. Some thirty boats have been reported Ito the police as missing during the last six months, and not one of them hae ■been recovered. The defence of either a* the accused was an attempt to blame the other man, but each succeeded only m more fully establishing , his own guilt. They were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for six months in Invercargill Gaol. FOUND BY NIGHT. A weakly, ill-nourished youth named William John OToole was charged that he was found by night without lawful excuee on the premises of Messrs. Bycroft, Ltd., in Chancery-lane. Accused's own story was that he was hungry, and that he had gone in there to get biscuits, as lie had done before. The police account of the man was that he was rather a tired, useless sort of fellow, who had been earning a precarious livelihood about the city, getting for hie occasional work scarcely enough money to provide him with the means of subsistence. The Sub-Inspector did not press the charge, which was accordingly dismissed. MERELY A VISITOR. A well-dressed young man. named Percy Henry Stoor, for whom Mr. W. Quinn appeared, was charged that he broke _ and entered a dwelling-house with intent to commit a crime therein. The man was seen to enter this house stealthily by way of a window late at night, and the constable who had been flitli iiFiiFilFTilTi i Hi LHUU IIPII llllffi IL LI IU ■the man was invited to come to the house by a lady friend who lodged there, and to-day the charge against him THE BY-LAWS. A Chinaman, answering to the name Hip Lah was fined 5/-, costs 7/-, for having driven a vehicle along the Great North-road after sunset without lights.