POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 272, 16 November 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

/(Before Mr. E. C. Cufcten, S.M.)' THE DRUNKARDS. The young man Frank Adamson, who has been twice before the Court during the last few days, was brought up again this morning o n charges of drunkenness and breach of his order. He had qualified for Pakatoa in a little over a week, and the Magistrate thought that a long -term on the Island would give him his only possible chance of reform. He was sent to the Island for two years. Ellen Cairns was fined 10/ or 48 hours, Michael Jordan 5/ or 24 hours, and two first offenders were each fined 5/ or 24 hours. John Jackson, drunk while in charge of a horse, was convicted and fined £1. William Bamberry, charged with breach of his order, was convicted and discharged. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. A smartly dressed young man named Dane Mason Greer was charged that on the 18th January, 1909, he obtained £100 from the New Zealand Portland Cement Company. Defendant was at that time an employee of the company, and he was commissioned 'to buy on behalf of his employers a large quantity of coal. It is alleged that after making the purchase he informed the manager that he had paid on the company's account £150 of his own money. This amount was paid to him. but the informants now allege that they have recently discovered that Greer paid only £50 for the coal. He was remanded for a week. A BOOKMAKER. Victor McDuff, a bookmaker, was charged that on the 23rd of July he made a bet in Queen-street, and further that he was in the street for the purpose of betting. Mr. A. S. C. Brown, instructed by M'cßuff's solicitors in Wellington ; applied for an adjournment for a fortnight, bat this application his Worship would not consider. The case was adjourned until Friday, but on the distinct understanding that if- MeDuff -were not here to defend, the case would be proceeded with in his absence. MISCEX/LATCEOUS. Walter Kane, charged with having left his cart standing too long in a roadway, was convicted and discharged; and falter Preston, similarly- charged, was fined 10/, costs 7/. Two shopkeepers, A. E. Adams and Mrs. C. Shilton, were each fined £1, costs 11, for having failed to dose their shops on the afternoon of Labour Day.. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Hugh Campbell, the member of the crew of the steamer Clan Ross, who is charged with having assaulted a fireman named John McVarrish, causing him actual bodily harm, came up again on remand. Mr. W. E. Backeit appeared for the accused. There was no dispute between the defence J and the prosecution as to the facts. It was alleged that McVarrish was a quarrelsome man, and a dangerous antagonist, and that he was the cause of much J trouble among the crew. He assaulted ! Campbell, and Campbell retaliated a little I too successfully, with the result that Me- ' Varrish fell and cracked his skull. He is I now ill, but he will probably recover. His ] own statement regarding the occurrence is that he can remember nothing of what occurred. Mr. Hackett asked the Magistrate to dismiss <£tae cose out of hand, urging that the evidence , disclosed the fact that the accused was acting in-self-defence. His Worship thought the injuries suffered by the other man too sen. ous to permit of the case being dealt with in the lower Court, and lie -committed the accused for trial.