POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 179, 27 July 1912, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

I t I .. {, Before Mr. E. C. Cut-ten. 531.) DHUWS-tiN iJESS. Two first offenders forfeited bail, and a, ihird one was fined 5, . \Ym. Valeni line signalised his first experience of arrest by berating the policeman in lan'guagethe reverse, of courtcons. and, chiefly for the latter, he was fined £2. Mary .Ann Fowler, who had been prohibited two or three days .ago. was found drunk in Grey (Street early yesterday evening. When she iras being , bundled into a oul> bound for the polk-o station she strati out. and broke a window of the cab. She mid to pay a line of 40/. and 3/ damages, or pro to gaol for a week. Alfred Belcher, who lilt-ed tipsily j against a glass show e.-usr outside ;>keate.-> I and Co.'s shop in Karangaiape Pu>ad yea- j lerday evening itnd broke the glass, was lined 10/ and ordered to pay 5/ for damages. A DEAL IN ZLNC. A deal in zinc: was made yesterday morning by two men, Henry K. Minns and Warn. HarKnsr. and this morning they I were charged with stealing the zinc. Minns had been for some lime in the employ of Crtorgr Bxsaxdon. and lliirlin-j; had bfcn engaged on Thursday. Their I job -was to strip the roof from an old bouse and rephuv? i; with fresh iron. I They pulkd some of the old ridging oft' and* then adjourned truh it to a waste produce merchant's shop and sold it for j ."!, 4. They then further adjourned to a publK-honse. Me:intinie the. house, minus the ridging, .-toi-nl open to the ■sveathrr. ■Minus said that he iimloratood Rejirdon to say when they wore having a drink the' previous ere.ning that be (Minn*) could have -the old iron, and Harlin.B , stated that he had taken Miuni" •word to that effect. His Worship said that the theft -was one of extreme inipndewe, obviously due to drink, and both accused would be convicted, prohibited, and ordered to pay JO/ each, to cover the costs.