POLLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 106, 3 May 1912, Page 6

POLLICE COURT.

{Before Air. E. C. Gotten, S.M.) DKCNiU-rBTNESS. Three first offenders -were fined .5/ apiece, and another, whose face required repairs, was allowed to go on his agree- I ing to the issue of a prohibition order- [ Henry Whitside, who had just a last flutter before going to the country, was arrested when he. was in company with his **bluey'' and heading as straight for the country as his condition votUd allow. An agreement to the issue of a prohibition order enabled him to go on bis way. A marriage in the family was given by John Geo. Moase as the cause lor his indiscretion. He was fined 10/ in celebration of the event, and, though his case presented lesis romantic features, I Thomas lhinford was similarly fined. John Strickland, whose lapse "constituted also a breach of his prohibition order, was lined i' 1. NO '-LEGAL MEANS." '•r have a husband," protested Grace Wells-Milne when charged with not having eiitiiciont lawful means of support, Jn addition to being drunk and breaking ber order of ab-linemi!. The police evidence was Unit I lie -woman had been living in lOotns which had become a meeting place of persons uf undesirable habits,mid tiia.D yesterday >lie was found druuk in Kara-ngtihapi-ro.-i.l, in the company of another woman and a square bottle of gin. Accused, who is (>4 years of age, protested that the other woman had the bottle, and a reference to tlie court books showed that she d.d have a "lawful means" in the siiape of a separated huriband, though the maintenance money was somewhat behind. This induced furtlier police evidence tha-t accused's life had not ben moral, and she was sentenced to six months' imprisonment twUi ■hard labour. CHASED HIS LANDLORD. Daniel Edwards, asred 20, was charged with being disorderly while drunk. Senior Sargeant Mackinnon said that accused railed rooms from an old man an Pittstreet, and last n:<rnt made thing* so merry when ho wont home under the mlluence of liquor that his landlord be.-nme. fearful, and ™ clia.vd along the street by accused till he went to the police for protection. Tim mailer was not situ.us. Accused said that he could nut walk in the house without the. landlord complaining of "noise' and lie vent to see t,ie landlord about it hut could not g-t near him—he kept running away. Accused was fined i. , I. and uunie.l that next time a prohibition order would be made. WANTED HIS OWN CLOTHES. Charged with being disorderly while drunk at the Auckland Hospital, an American n.uned Thus. .1. S. M.i,]ynn explained that t-omc time ago he was in hospital as the result of a lift accident. When he was discharged, the clothes in which he was adnuLU-d could not he found, except a shirt, and a pair of boots, and he refused to co out in the inadequate an ire of merely tliow garments. Mc r.usrl s.vn.- ] r.iable. and eventually l:o:. the loan of so.no troiis.>r=; and a coat, through l lie good oiliccc- of the secretary. Later applications for his clothes had no reKul:. and he took legal advice, which <|e..-hled him on a plan of action. Yesterday he carried out the plan, which was that he went to the hospital in the clothes in which he had come out, and returned on the spot the clothes be had had to borrow, which left him in boots and shirt. Be then got into bed and refused to leave unless his own clothes were supplied. Senior-Sergt. Macfcinnon said that the facts were substantially as stated, with the addition that accused was excited in his demands and somewhat unsobpr. On accused stating re-eognit-inn that he was ill advised in acting n? he did. the MauL-tra.tc convicted and .Uncharged him. REMANDED. The case in which William 1-1 Martin wae charged with having assaulted Jno. Brooks so as to c:uirio him actual bodily harm ».■> remanded for a week, the poli-e j.riwliiring a certificate that Hnmk.* wjs not lit to appear, and stating that the mans expedition to Devonport yesterday ».is against, m.-dii-nl ordem. Frank Taylor, arrested this morning on .i. charge of ;us.-u!ling and robbing Edward Diseti. in- remanded for a week. The i-liargi-s against Stewart Good of having stolen poc-Lil packets from a. mail I bug were again rumonde-i for a .week. MISCELLANEOUS. BrejicJifs of prohibition orders cost Frank Adair £1, and John McLean £2. In the case against ('has. Boakes, of i having disobeyed an order of the court i for the maintenance of his illegitimate child, accused was ordered to find a surety of £50 for tbe payment, of the money, being allowed a. .month in ■which vi do so. Mary Morrison, for accompanying into an hotel a person whom she knew •was ! prohibited, was lined £2. Joseph Ke.lry. a lad of 10 years, who admitted having played a grossly impertinent trick on a woman at fhe Mfrcer railway station, was convicted of assault, and ordered to pay 33' costs, while his father was ordered to enter into a bond of £-25 for the lad's future good behaviour.