POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cntten, SX) n»XBWIATE». Two first atfcssseq were mulct in the usual fine of 6/-. 'Leopold Muir, a suß-tanasd youth from the West Indies, fetd to pay a/- for his indiscretion ia venturing into Queen-street the worse for liquor. Frederick Carlson, a roudcUe aged Swede, was fined 10/- for having been drunk in Queen-street. Allan Mcßae, a Scotchman, agad 64. single, and very tottery, was prescribed twelve months' vacation at Rotoroa, he having been drunk and procured liquor whilst prohibited. Henry Joseph WHfiamson, aged 68, aad Wm. McKense, a Scot, aged shoot 46, were each convicted on charges of drunkenness aad committing | indecent acta, and sentenced to seven days' hard labour. James Hen wood, a sailor for 16 years, and a bluejacket for 10 years previously, was charged with drunkenness and breaking prohibition. He rigorously "begged to differ," explaining that he had been severely attacked by his old complaint sSt.iiiis during the recent wet weather, and that a friend had given him a little rum. He assured his Worship that he was a "good man" and a steady worker se long as his health allowed him. He had been in the gaol hospital for a week. i Xhe Magistrate granted a discharge, : the defendant assuring him that he inj tended to obey the terms of prohibition. 1 Theodore Pouigrain was convicted upon a charge of breaking prohibition, and fined £2 or seven days.

A. GELDED FAKTHIaTGHenry Watson aad Geo. Hartmaj Croul, two young men of somewhat decrepit appearance, pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of having passed i a counterfeit com to William Hay Chapman, a cabman. They were defended by Messrs. Baekett and Singer. respectively. The story told by the police was to the effect that on a recent evening the tao accused hired a cab to go from one part of Queen-street to another, and tendered a gilded farthing ia fate, receiving 8/- in <Aange. The accused reserved their defence, and were committed for trial. mr/irn tsTDECEJIT AsWA.Oa.TJohn Paecoe, • young man of decent attire, was charged wrth having indecent lv assaulted a girl in Nelson - street "on February 14- He pleaded "not guhj" and reserved his defence. Mr. B- D. BagnaU stated that the accused wosild produce proof of aa alibi. He w.-.s committed for trial. A DOTJsUX DOUXSTIC SPKEE. Frederick Trafford and his wife, Louisa Twflord, both comparatively young people, from England, were charged with having been drunk in the Bomaia, and further with idle and disorderly persons without adequate means of support. Sub-inspector nendrey was allowed to withdraw the charges of vagrancy, as the police had ascertained that the defendants had quite a lot of money at their disposal. The police evidence was that as a result of their continuous drinking habits und the male defendant's proneness to the use of bad language, the couple had outstayed their welcome at the boardiughouses where they had

lived since coming to Auckland, and when arrested they were lying in the fin fin stamberiirg heavily from the eSmoU «& drink. For the past three weeks they bad been doing nothing bat banging about Paraeil for the purpose of jbatßßMt Tke male defendant declared «B*T*e an* en.'-wife -were resp-otai* citnsens, and that they "owed not any! ou." .Fill I ill, t*ey bad plenty of mosey to live upon, and be was arrxngiagior plnjsii nt as a priater Ttt is a greet pity to see these poapfa reining their hearth and wasting their •state" said the Sub-inspector, in gngfciatissr probiiMtioa. Ottttcn reeorded a otilif ictton against each of the defendants, and ordered 'tin— to pay the Court costs, 15/-

It was directed that they should be proadbited. A WEAK HTZLLECT.

Arthur "William Aiken Dm we« remanded lor a week upon a charge of the tbeft of 68 sacks, ▼shied at 16/3, the property of Tiaw Moore Carpenter.

The Sub-raapeetor said that tie accused was about 22 years of age, but %is interject was f—l to that *af a child about sewea yaw of age. He appealed to have lately adopted this diabanest method of gl It Tim a living. Replying to hie Worship, Sub-inspector Hatelrey said that a abort term of eonMil—■< ia gaol imjgat have sa undesirable effect «a such an mteflect, nisnn ke could be kept apart from other prisoners.

mxrmmnrm kbt<«.teb FKACTXCE. A ekargii against Henry Gieaoxse of diachargiag firearms gear to a pontic place was dealt with ex parte. A farther charge concerned the deafcrartion of a pane of ghees vataed at 17/. Mia. kfißar, a party with a peWJateHt now of langoage, nod that while erapioyed in the kitchen of her home m Haydnstriet, near ftvmu'i Bay, she heard aomv ehuutiun dose by, aad a little inter a boju« f crashed throogh the window and aaased ctooe to ■Che wlteaea. The bwfiet easne tbroogh the fence from a aeighboariag ward, where the defendant bad beea neaiging in revolver praatice. It is a 'very teewawate thing that this woman was net struck by that bullet,'' said the Sab-inspector, in referring to the charge. Tba defendant was eonvioted and fined £& upon, the first ebarge, and be was fined 10/ and ordered to pay coart costs on the weened JIVMIU COTJKT. In the Jirremle Cottrt, before Mr. E. C. Cnttea, S.M . three small boys were charged with having un]&wrufly need firearms, and farther with fceweag hroten a pane of sam is a -window of the Birkdale school. His Worship admuiistereri a severe admonition and allowed the sobered yootba to depart. 3. little girl who was shown to have stolen the earn of £1 in money was committed to the Industrial School.