POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

j • . (Before Mr E. C Cutten, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. The week-end celebrants numbered just on twenty, of whom six were first offenders, who paid the usual penalty of 5/ apiece, while two others forfeited bail. One of them was picked up in Greystreet with £.■> in his pockets, while another -found in the same street had possession of AMI. The unlucky find in her shop of a forgotten bottle of whisky, which she had planted there Home, time before, was the cause of Miza'beth Martin's appear- | ance on charges of being drunk and [.breaking her prohibition order. She was I warned that another offence would send her to Pakatoa Island, ami fined £2. Albert Beckett put forward his regular plea that he had a n't and was not drunk, but the odds were against him and he had to pay a fine of 10/. Larry Ityan and Sarah Denis satisfied the proj prieties with half-a-sovereign, and Wilj liam McKay, a man-o'-wareinan, was j handed over to the ship's officers to be dealt with. James Downey, who had I just returned from Rotoroa, was discharged on his consenting to the issue of a prohibition ovder. MISUNDERSTOOD. '"What I said was, 'What for does this train run up country?' " stated Francis Small, a fireman who was impeached for using obscene language in a railway carriage at Elleralie yesterday. He added that he was going to the country to work, and the guard must have misunderstood hie remark and taken it for similar <»oun,d'ing obscenity. The evidence was against Hnvall, however, and he was sent to gaol for seven days, notwithstanding a plea for a chance to "get out of it.' HAND TO MOUTH. "Well, I've been havin' a glass for a good while now.'' admitted John William Well', when asked how long the bout had lasted which ended in his being conducted to the cells on Saturday. Stfll, he said that he had earned a bit at odd I jobs lately, and was not ready to admit j that he had been sleeping out in the Domain. What his earnings w«re he could not say, as he had been living from hand to'mnnth and had not taken account of thin?:-. Senior-Sergt. MacKinnon suggested that there had always been a glabs between the hand and mouth, and accused was cent to Mt. Eden gaol for two months to practise regular habits of work and sleep. FOUND BY NIGHT. "One of the ■begging class, given to hanging round the backs of premises and sneak thieving," was the character given William Joseph Cotter by Detective Ctuumings, the man having been found late on Saturday night in the backyard of Miss Inglis of Mt. Eden-road. Ho -was lying drunk in the yard at the time, a-nd the ex'euse he gave this morning wae that he. had a brother living in Mt. Eden and had made a mistake. hen a record including a number of convictions for theft, drunkenness and breach of order were produced against him. the aecmsed stated a violent desire for a chance tr> fret away from the drink, , 1 urn over a new leaf and leave the townHe was senUrrced to three months' bard ; labour. A LOST UMBRELLA. When Christina. Danrie left the train at Newmarket on 'iivl April she took with her the umbrella of Mrs. Jtayden, of Otahuhu, who was travelling in the same compartment, and Mrs. llu.vden did not miss her property till she got no Auckland. T-at-er in the day Mrs*. Danzie was seen to enter the train again at Newnrarket with the umbrella wrapped in a newspaper, but its rather conspicuous handle a-utracted attention. In this way information.came to the police, and when interwrwed a few days later Mrs. Danzie said that the umbrella had got caught in. her own and she hail inadvertently taken it out of Ahe train hanging to hers. She intended to advertise for the owner. Charged this morning with stealing the umbrella, she gave the same explanation, and remarked that she was just on 60 years of age. She was convicted and fined £ 1 and caste. MISCELLANEOUS. Tor 'breaches of their orders, Francis Messenger and Arthur Fitzgibbons were fined each £2. The charge of being a j rogue and vagabond preferred against 'Hromos MrG.tynn, who had gone tc> the Auckland Hospital by night to demand his clothes, was dismissed.