POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr E. 0. Cutten, SM.) THE DRUNKARDS. A young man named Joseph JoEhston, sometime resident at Pakatoa Island, was found hawking a plaque for sale about the -bars of the hotels of the city on Saturday night. He had contrived to get drink on his peregrinations, and he was locked up for this, and charged also with having hawked goods without a license. He was fined ss, costs 7s, in default 4S hours. Albert Edwin Beckett said that he had broken his prohibition order to cure his neuralgia. The Magistrate advised him that he would get rid of his sickness better by going to a doctor, and aned him £2, in default 7 days. Charles Norman was fined £1 or 3 days. David Lynch was fined 10a or 4S hours, and Michael Bourke and James Templeton 5s or 24 hours. Four first offenders were each fined ss, one was convicted and discharged, and another forfeited bail £1. A PROHIBITED MAN. Daniel Dunn, a barman iv the Alexandra Hotel, was charged with having served a prohibited person with liquor. Defendant did not deny the fact of having served the man, but said that he did not know him for a prohibited person. There was evidence that the person served appeared to 'be a decent man, and that he was perfectly sober, so that defendant had no means of knowing that he ought not to serve him. The Magistrate said that he could not but feel sorry for the defendant, but the Act stated that as soon as a prohibited person was served by a person other than a licensee, an offence was complete. Defendant was convicted and fined os without costs. A COBMEE IW COATS. Frederick List, a man of about 45 years of age, was charged on seven informations with having stolen seven overcoats of a total value of £17. Two of the coats he stole from a steamer at the wharf, and the other five he took from the front of different shops down town. Five of them he sold or pawned for a total of 21/, and two were found at his lodgings. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. FOKGESY. William Duncan was charged that aa the 15th August he forged and' uttered a cheque for £18 10/. Accused woe staying at a boardinghouse in the city, and a day or two before the offence was committed the landlady spoke to him about his account, which amounted to some £6. He asked her to let it stand over for a day or two, and on the day named by him he tendered her a cheque for £18 10/, purporting to have been drawn "by a firm in the city. The landlady receipted his account, and gave him some £12 in cash, but later the cheque was returned by the bank. When charged with the offence of forgery by Detective Scott, accused at once admitted that he had drawn and signed the cheque himself. He pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sej*r tence. THE BY-LAWS. Alexander Stewart was fined 5/, costs 11, for driving after dark without lights. Reuben Woods, for leaving a horse and cart standing too long at -Newmarket, was fined 5/, cosos 7/. Porter, a hawkeS in Queeastreet, was fined 5/, costs 7/, for remainiug stationary too long with his barrow. Arthur Johnston admitted having ridden a horse too fast in Manukau-road 1 , and was fined 5/, costs 7/.