POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 210, 4 September 1911, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs. J. 8. Dickson and Ford, J.P.'s.). THE DRUNKARDS. The week-end assortment of the unsober was a large and varied one, ranging from a first-offending youth under twenty to old men of many police-court appearances. The aforesaid youth said vaguely that he bought a bottle ol whisky which occasioned his arrest, but he did not disclose the name of the vendor, and in view of the fact that he was under age, he was fined £l, in default 4S hours'. Another first offender, who had lost the boat to Vancouver, and had erot accommodation at the lockup instead, was convicted and discharged on payment of cab-hire. A third man had his bail of 20/ forfeited; another, who made himself a nuisance in a railway carriage at Mount Eden was fined £1 and costs; and yet another was convicted and discharged. Martin Le Strange, Michael Kelly, and Jno. Gallagher were fined £1 each, Patrick A. Scarrott was fined £1 and prohibited, and Alex. McLean and William Fitzgerald were fined 10/ each. A BAD SHOT. " You oujht to be a better shot," commented Sub-Jnapcctor Hendrey when Phillip Murray explained that he did not wilfully break a pane of glass in the Hobsoii Hotel, but that he struck at another man and missed, and sent his fist thrnnrrh f he window. The miss cost accused a fine of £1 and the price of tne glass. 28/. HITTING A BOOT-BLACK. On Saturday a man named James Murray knocked a cripple boot-iblack, Thomas Aitken, off his box, because the latter would not give him a shine on tick. Murray, who was drunk at the time, said that he didn't remei!/>er the circumstance, but considered that he mu3t have been provoked, even if he ■was under the influence of drink, to have made him hit a cripple. When informed that he would be lined £2 or given fourteen days' hard labour, he remarked that it would be fourteen days. A TRUSTFUL CYCLIST. About ten d-nys ago William Hawkins ■want 1 ..'- to go into the Royal Hotel to do business, and he asked a man standing alongside the hotel to hold his bicycle. When he came out there \va3 no sign of the man, and the bicycle was minus a thirty-shilling In tup. Later the lamp was pawned by Joseph Griffiths, who had been holding the bike, for half a crown, which was spent in drink. Griffiths admitted the theft, nnd was sentenced to a month'? hard labour. A RACE FOR GAOL. Bernard Smith, a man with a big Australian criminal record, came under the observation of a constable in Queenstreet on Saturday afternoon. Smith was standing in front of Stone and t'o.'s •ben srvp, at tin- corner of Dtrby-«treet, nnd after looking stealthily round he lifted a pair of boots (valued at lfi/G). He saw the iTin-'iiile make for him. and he bulled. Pursued and pursuer went rmin-,1 the block at a fleet pace, 'but const*bie was the faster, ami by the time Queen-street was reached a?ain he was on hi~ man and arrested him Smith pleaded guiltv, nnd was sentenced to three months' hard labour. THE PARNELL SHOTING C ISE. Annie MeConnell. ch •* rs-,-| that on 10th August ?h" attempted to murder Thomas Mfldigan by siioot : ng him with a revolver, was remanded for a wei»k. SubInspector H'-ndrey stated that Madigun was recovering, and he would be pre' pared to go on with the case next Monday. MISCELLANEOUS. Edward Kennedy was fined 10/ and casts for resisting arrest, and was eonvi -le ! and discharged for bejfic* drunk. John Edward South was sentenced to fourteen dnVs hard labour for eommittiiiL' an indecent net in Giistoms-str et. and fined £1 for seven davs'l for dink funrsf. John 1 o>ran Aikmnn. for fn'linc to r'"_ r i ; t"r the hir + h of a chill within 02 davs was fined 1/ and costs.