POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 274, 18 November 1910, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) THE DRUNKAHDS. A seafaring man named Alfred Enoksen was in need of a bed last night, and he strolled uninvited into two lodginghouses. The first time a constable put him out of the place, but on the second occasion he arrested the man and charged 'him with being a rogue and a vagabond. iThe man was drunk and stupid at the time. Under these circumstances his Worship refused to convict the accused on the serious offence of which 'he was charged. William Meldrum, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5/ or 24 hours, and two first offenders were dealt with, similarly. LED INTO TEMPTATION. Three well-clad, decent-looking boys, ranging in ages from 12 to 16 years, were charged in the Juvenile Court With having broken and entered a house at Murray's Bay, Takapuna, and stolen therefrom some 30 gun cartridges and about 25/ worth of kauri gum. Mr. A. S. C. Brown appeared for the defendants, and at his suggestion the charge was modified to one of simple theft. The affair occurred one Sunday, when the owner was absent from his home at church. There were signs that the house had been entered, and he missed a number of cartridges and a quantity of kauri gum. The boys admitted that they had taken the. cartridges, but they denied all knowledge of the gum. The story they told was that a launch party had broken into the house and stolen some hilk, and had induced them, with threats of punishment, to go back to the house and return the jug in which they had taken it. The boys went back, and there helped themselves to the cartridges. His Worship found that the pboys had not taken the gum, but warned them that they had been guilty of a very grave offence. They were admonished and discharged. INDECENCY. j Dugald Black, a seafaring man belong'•ing to the crew of a ship now in port, was charged with drunkenness and indecency. He was convicted, and the magistrate ordered that he be put on board his ship. William Hamilton, also charged with indecency, was sent to gaol for seven days. A COWARDLY WAY. James Millar, a man of about 40 years of age, was charged that he attempted to commit suicide by taking matebheads. He pleaded "Guilty." The man had had I I domestic troubles, chiefly, or altogether, j I the police said, owing to his own drunken habite. His wife left him, and he had to face providing for five children, aged 14, 13, 4, 3, and 2 years. There are two other chfldi-en, but they are in the industrial school on account of a little matter of burning a house down. Millar refused to assume the responsibilities thrust upon him, and be sought to avoid them by taking his own life. His Worship told the man that suicide was a cowardly way of getting out of trouble. He was convicted and ordered to come

up for sentence when called upon, and a prohibition order was issued against bim. ~_« TWELVE MONTHS. Albert Neary was charged that he wa_ a rcgue and a vagabond, in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. There was a great deal of evidence that Neary did not work, and there was a strong suggestion that his means of living was of a kind not lawful. Neary fought his case hard, as is his custom, but his evidence as to his earnings was unsupported and unbelievable. He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. LANGUAGE A middle-aged woman, named Margaret Gearin, was charged with having used abusive and obscene language to some of 'her neighbours in the Freeman's Bay district. She was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and a prohibition order was issued against her.