POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 287, 2 December 1911, Page 10

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs. C. Norgrove and W. Marshall, J.Fs.) THE DRTTTfKAJRDS. The list included, seven first offenders, or' •>•' them a woman who had been found Ivins; in Queen-street -with a conudiT.: >l"c sum of money on her. Five of ' i <-:n were lined 5/ apiece, and another £1 in default of non-appearance. One of tin' accused was an old man, who appeared with his left hand cut off, and lh- «:innj> in bandages. It was explained ilia: the olii fellow had come frnm the Bay of l»:ands to the Auckland H--pit.il. and h? had by some means got !lw:lv vest"nlay, and was found very drunk at N'ewrnarket. He was convict- .■ i and ordered to be sent back to the •): splir.l. Kdward Faher. -who created a diverFinn ir Oii-Tom's-strept last night when 'up was drunk, by yplling out in language ™. i;-!i wa? the reverse of decent, was in, ! £1. in default days. Arthur Lotto pleaded ''.Tuili.v" to 'having bern ilrjnk three times within the pi-t -ix months. He was fined £1, -.\':'.h :'r.- -i-:i;il option of seven days, .13.] a prohibition order wie issued. L.Hto asked if there was any chano? of appeal. and on bcine told that he could appeal, asked for time to pay the fine. This wa- refund, and he was sa.tisned ■with the a><::ran"<? that the police would FP'*i o-it any message for him to enable him to pet the money. SHOP BOOK THEFTS. A young man. James Osborne Sparrow, ; v.a< observed by a constable yesterday I to stop before a bookshop in Queen- t s"r«Pt. w"c?re books were displayed on • a -belt" outside the door, slip a book under , his coat, and walk awuy. When fol- | lowed and accosted by the constable, he | a-imittod the tteft. and also admitted that a shilling parcel of vegetables found on him -sas stolen from a Chinaman's doorway. There n-cs nothing else i known against his character, and he | Bt;ribu:ed his act to his having had several drinks, to ■which he was not accustocK'ii. He ■was fined £1. TWO VASYXWG TALUS. A mix-up occurred yesterday evening at an outhouse of tip Star Hotel, resulting in a. young seaaian named Percy EJciiard-on being charged with assaulting -las. McXeil, a ;. o-ung , man who appeared v.iih a black eye. McNeil's I story was that he was in the urinal wb?Ti Richardson, whom he had never in L : - life seen before, ca-ine in and as.u.ted him entirely without provocation. Richardson called two shipmates ti> corroborate his statement that 3ftS"eil and two friends got one of these n:3te= in the urinal, asked him for a shilling, and then on being refused, started t" bust!? him. At that stafre accused arrived and started to take his mate's si ;■'. The fact that Richardson had stid nothing at all about this behaviour h- McNeil -Alien he was arrested, and also that one of his mates had been 10-'--"J up for drunkenness, and bad been overheard talking the case over with Eii-1 -ir,i-on in tile police cell, discounted umised's story. and he was fined £2. and V costs, in default seven days in gaol.