POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 278, 22 November 1911, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, SJkl.) THE DRUNKARDS. The total list consisted of two first offenders and Mary Whittingham, an elderly woman with a record. The last was lined 10/, one of the "firsts"' 5., and the other, in default of personal appearance, £l. A NEIGHBOUR'S QUARREL. An action for assault brought by Elizabeth Wiseman against George O'Brien revealed that the trouble was the result of the housing conditions of the parties. It was explained that O'Brien and his wife rented two rooms in a house, and had to go through the yard of the neighbouring house, rented by Wiseman and his wife, to get entrance. The two houses were served bv only one convenience, and it was stated that friction arose out of that fact, because O'Brien's landlord locked the place and kept the key in his house, a position to which Wiseman objected. There had been some words about the matter last Tuesday morning between O'Brien and Wiseman, whea O'Brien said that he had nothing to do with the key. In the evening, Mrs. Wiseman stated, O'Brien went into her yard, and insisted on fighting her husband. Wiseman came out of the stable, but before he vonkl get his coat off O'Brien struck the witness (Mrs. Wiseman) on the nose and mouth, and ran away when she called for police. Thi;. was supported by Wiseman, but was denied by O'Brien and his wife, who. however, stated that O'Brien was in the yard, and there were some words. His Worship advised the defendants that the ben thins they could do when they had lo use same part of premises conjointly was to show consideration for one another. Though it was difficult to sav on the evidence that defendant struck the woman, the evidence showed that she l, ai | received a blow in r. quarrel that w-is looked for bv defendant and hj" would have to tak" the responsibility. He would be fined CI. and costs. MS CEI/LAKTEOUS. Arthur Hiekmort. a young man at present undergoing a sentence of tw-i months in gaol for theft from the coat of a workman at the new post office, was remanded to appear at Napier on Monday on a charge of breaking and entering, about 2nd November. the dwelling of Peter Hargreaves there, and stealing £lO. Riding a bicvele on the footpath on the Great Soaith-road cost Edward J. Andrews a/, and 7/ costs.