POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 142, 14 June 1912, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutten; S.JL)' . PAWNED THE WRONG COAT. George Heighway indignantly wanted to know who dared accuse him of steal, ing Thomas Findlay's overcoat SubInspector Hendrey took the onus; and produced , the aforesaid Findlay, w h o stated that last Thursday while'lie was in Fowlds' shop he put his coat down. While he -was there Heighway cam o sparring into the shop, but was-induced by a diplomatic employee to leave' without doing fistic damage. Later... witness looked, round for his overcoat/ahd found that it had gone. The man who had pushed Heighway out said/that the man had picked up an overcoat from; the counter, 'but nothing was said at- the time, as it was thought to belong to him. A secondhand dealer recounted an attempt by Heighway to sell him a'coit of a description tallying with, that lost ' by Findlay, iieighway being particularly 1 conspicuous at the time by the fact that he was pretty -well drunk* Despite protestations of innocence, and a statement to the effect that it was his old , broim coat that he tried to pawn -for a'bob, Heighway wr.s convicted and sentenced to three months' hard labour. A Pmi HOUSE: AT F&IiLERSV The Opera House .Proprietary' wire furnished with a new '.and unexpected' tnra 'by the City Traffic inspector,' jjeiI terday. The vaudeville ■programffie on Saturday week had attfacted\:k''fßll .house, and after- the.., intejmisiion a couple 'of reporters . - patron happened in there, tfitift'e customary casualness of the tribe places, to record firsthand'the sensations of one particular turn.-■-' Whether or not for the same reason, the traffic inspector and , his assistant, happened iv ' immediately afterwards, and~tOßfr, note j of the fact that the recording trio took I their sensations standing, at the tack of the dress circle. The inspectorial notebook got busy registering the fact that all the seats -were occupied; two lads were seated in the' centre, aisle, eight persons perched' on the step Sxtensions and beside the rail between the front seats and'the boxes, ana'the; three pressmen were standing—unlucky thirteen. Hence Mr. John duller, as owner and licensee of the house, was brought to Court yesterday on a charge of_ having infringed the by-laws by pennittms pel-sons other than employees to-stand and sit-in the passages and staircases of tie building. That the pressmen Ws after the one turn, that'the" twoyout&s in the centre aisle bore the family lineaments of the Fullers, that there'was ample room for seating eight persons without overcrowding at the ends; or the front sßats, and that thfe excess* not constitute any added danger.in W case of a panic; none nor all -of/tuM Sings availed to avert the cpßvg for a technical offence itr. placed OE record the fact-that J *J turned people away that partuM night, and had returned over ■&£ money to otTier s for whom ne could g find eats. He also pointed ort tlj J ficulty of keeping two «: thrt from standing about at odd time. times they were waiting to at other times just watching a Urn, « after they had vacated the, .«*» effect of Ms remarks '.vaso^e^ penalty a nominal one-' w > ",, (Before Messrs. S. S. Xerheny and C.jSorgrove, Jgl DRtTBTKEirNESS. _ . Catherine ReiUy and ffS two well-known «»&•«??"• ** manded to be dealt 7 trate for breaches <n their fororders. One statutory tost oflender feitcd bail. An actual .**?£&* victed and discharged, in conside n of his age, and anothe.•« [J^, Johu Johnston, who had co " m re . nuisance in Emily jftaca "*%££* till -. inanded for medical treatment Monday. WITHOUT EIGHTS. George Rutland, Henry Little, °and William Kane were: g who were out after dark, andJg^ was fined 5/ and 7/ costs. ■ MISCBXLANEOITS. _ Charles FiUpatrick Lindsay ajgj having gone to the separated wife was living «» boun a her, and ho was prohib ted^ »dj^ Parson, <«*»£&£ horse by working t while i■ w ;' charg c was fined '20/ and 7/ costs,.and• against hii driver, Albert Andehon, forked the horse under orders. dismissed.