POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 171, 21 July 1910, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Air E. C. 0-Et__, SAL)

TTTF. DRUNKARDS. James Francis Maxwell came out of gaol yesterday after a sentence of 12 months, and had some drin-, which took rather serious effect, with the result that he was again put under restraint. He -was fined 5s of 24' hears. Frederick Johnston was fined _0s or 48 hours, and a young woman who apjr-eared in court for the first time was fined-5s or __ hours. John William Robinson, for breach of his prohibition order, was fined £2 or 14 days. A SCHOOLMASTER'S LAPSE. Harold Darcy Jones, schoolmaster at •Raglan, pleaded guilty to a charge that on the 30th June he stole three books, value £2 2s 6d, the -property of J. H. Upton and Co.. Accused went into the Messrs. Upton and Company's shop on the 30th June, and while there was observed to handle certain books. These books were missed after he left the shop, and afterwards were traced to his possession. Mr Towle, who appeared for the accusedj submitted that the case was one for probation, and Jones was remanded for a week to enable the probation officer to furnish a report. THEFT. John McQuire admitted that on the 13th July he stole a piece of rubber hose, value £3. Accused went to a second-hand dealer in Newmarket and offered for sale a long length of hose, fitted with a nozzle and all the fixings of a garden hose. Accused's only excuse was that he was suffering from the effects of drink at the time, and that he did not know how or where he obtained the hose. The owner of the hose has not yet been discovered. Accused was sent to gaol for four months' hard labour. - THE BY-LAWS. Percy W. Craddock, for leaving a vehicle with a horse attached standing in Queen-street, was fined 5/-, costs 7/-. Thomas Greenan, a cab-driver, was fined 10/-, costs 15/-, for driving too fast round the corner of King-street and Carlton Gore-road. HEMA-03S. Ernest Jones, charged with having deserted his Wife on the 6th March "last, was remanded until to-morrow. Percy Wright St. Clair was charged that at Matahuru, he abducted a Maori girl, 14 years of age, from the lawful •control )o| her (parents. He was remanded to appear at Huntly on the 26tn July.

AX.I-SGSD INDECENT ASSAULT.

A married man named Joseph Barnes, middle-aged, was charged with having indecently assaulted a girl of the age of seven years. It was alleged that accused induced the child to come into his house, and that there he committed the indecent assault, in rvspect of which the charge was laid. Accused was arrested on this charge a week'-ago, but he was in such, a state through overmuch drinking that he was unfit to plead. He was remanded for medical treatment, and in the meantime he has been suffering from delirium tremens in Mt. Eden Gaol. Accused pleaded "not guilty," reserved his defence, and was committed for trial. ATJ.EQBD CRIJ-L-Yi :-Arthur Brown.pleaded '.'guiliy" ■ '££> a j charge of having cruelly ill-treated a" horse - by causing, it tg be -worked- while suffering from a sore shoulder, and Charles Jury, the driver of the horse, I admitted having worked it. Brown was fined £1, costs ._ 1 S/-, and Jury was convicted and discharged. William Massey, for working a horse suffering from sore ehoulicrs, was fined £1, costs £110/-. . William Keith, similarly charged, was convicted and fined 10/-, without costs. George Renwiek admitted having beaten his horse oyer the' hesd in an access" of anger, and he was fined £1, costs £1 12/-. . 'Frederick Swift was fhied " £1, costs £1 10/-, for having caused a horse to be worked while suffering from a sore back. William .Glover, _•_; boy who was driving the horse, was cc_victed of having ilhtreated it by work__g it, and was discharged.

A Chinaman, answering to the name of Jim Awk, admitted having driven a horse which was too old and decrepit to work, and was fined 10/-, costs £ 1 S/-.