POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 288, 5 December 1910, Page 6

P OLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cntten, S.M.) ! THE DRUNKARDS. Edward Henry Webb and James Lang, I for drunkenness, were ea»h fined 10/---lor 48 hours. Two first offenders were convicted and discharged, and one for- | felted his bail. Alice Sarah Radford was fined £2 for drunkenness and breach of her prohibition order. LAN UNDESIRABLE PASSENGER. I Charles Johnston, a negro who sometimes gets into the dock on account of I too free indulgence in liquor, boarded a I tramcar in College-road on Sa<tur*»y night while under the influence of drink. ,An inspector forbade him to get on the I car, but he persisted, and he had to 'be put off. Then he used some insulting I terms to the officer, and a policeman who vras near at hand arrested him, 'and later charged him with being drunk and with having used insulting language. IHe was fined £1, with coats 16/6. ONE MONTE. [ It is a fairly general practice of I loafers and dead beats to spend their nights in Messrs. J. J. Craig and Co.'s j j yard, where they make for themselves j comfortable beds of sacks in the covered: ■wagons. This would probably not be rei gaTded as of serious moment, were it ; not for the fact that these visitors very often pick up and take away with them sacks, whips, and ropes—anything that is not securely fastened down. A man of bad character named Joseph McNamara was found asleep in a wagon on Sunday night, and he was arrested on a charge that he -was a rogue and a vagabond. He offered an explanation, but it was not sufficient, nnd he was sent to gaol for a month. I SIX MONTHS. ! ! William Barnett was charged that on the 2nd of December he stole from the | I person of Leonard Alhert the sum of ' £4. Barnett spoke to Albert, who is a native, in Grey-street, at about 101 o'clock on Friday night. Albert suggested a drink, and Barnett appeared to doubt whether Albert had enough money to buy a drink. Albert produced his ■ purse, which contained £4, and Barnett] grabbed it, took the money out of it, dropped the purse and ran away. The Maori pursued him, and had almost caught him when Barnett ran into the arms of a policeman. He pleaded "Guilty," and he was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. INDECENT LANGUAGE. A middle-aged man named Christopher Hampton went into the public bar of the Shamrock Hotel and asked for drink. A Ibarmaid considered that he had already had too much, and very properly refused to sell him any more, whereupon he addressed to her a disgusting, indecent remark. He was fined £5. A CHARGE -WITHDRAWN. A man named John tMcGarry, who has been seen loafing and drinking round •the town during working hours for 60me j weeks, was arrested for drunkenness on j (Saturday. The sergeant who locked him up asked him some questions about his means of living, and the man replied, "You're a clever fellow; go and find out." McGarry was charged with drunkenness, and also with vagrancy, but he was ahle to meet the latter charge by referring the police to a former employer, for whom he had worked until a few weeks ago. The character this employer gave him was that he was an 'honest bard-working fellow, addicted to drinking Ibouts. The police withdrew the charge of vagrancy, and on the lesser I charge the man was convicted and discharged. He consented to the issue of a prohibition order against him, and it was issued. INCORRIGIBLE. Two women named Mary Clarke and Elizabeth Austin were charged that they ■were incorrigible rogues. Clarke was also charged with having kept a house of ill-repute, and Austin with having assisted in the management of the house. The den in which these women lived was in a filthy state. The women offered no reasonable defence. Austin said that she had not really helped to manage the place, and she pleaded that she had been discharged only a week ago after having served a sentence of 18 months. Referring to Austin, his Worship said that he did not want to send heT iback to prison, although that seemed the only proper place for her. She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Clarke was sent to gaol for six months. REMANDS. A young man named Arthur Bray was charged that he was disorderly while drunk in the New North-road on Saturday, and that he used obscene language. He pleaded "Not Guilty," and at tha request of his counsel, Mr. J. R. Lundon, was remanded until Friday. William James, charged that on the 23th October, at Palmerston North, he stole a cheque from a postal packet, ■was remanded to appear at Palmerston in one week. MISCELLANEOUS. James Hill, a coachbuildex and wheelWright in Karangahape-road, was fined £5 for leaving a dray in the roadway. He had been convicted of a similar, offence previously. Charles Stanley Steer was fined £2 or 14 days for having entered licensed premises while prohibited. Philip Thorley and Joseph Daniel Steiming were each fined 10/, costs 7/, for having driven motor cars round corners at other than a walking pace.