POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 180, 29 July 1912, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

—• a I Before Mr E. C. Cut ten, S.M.) | 11 DRtrNKEKHESS. I In some 20 votaries of the insinuating t nifter there were 10 first offenders, who T pere variously dealt with. Peter Mc- t Jonagh and <Ino. McGuinness were fined • 0/ apiece, and Francis Edward Molloy vas remanded for a week for medical t xeatment. c Axel Nelson, a fireman off the Zealan- s lie, when enjoying himself ashore, mis- i: .ook an old man for someone against Jj rhom he had a grievance, and started t n to settle the grievance and the man 1 it the same time. The other man re- ' :reated. protesting, into a boarding- T louse in Albert Street, -while kelson 1 >loekad>d his fop by walking up and • lown outside issuing manly challenges ;o come out and do his duty. For his 1 lrunken behaviour Nelson -was -fiiwd 10/. ' Albert Gamble, when refused drink in ( iic British I.otel on Saturday night, , nade some insulting remarks to the J icensee which cost him £1. John Moran, who. in his intoxication, massed by the public utilities in favour »f a doorway, was fined £1. Goorjre Dathmore and George N. .Simms. i.wo|! (■oung men who bad kept straight al- j ' itost to the end of their firstpprohib- t lion orders, were given a chance and iischarged. I < Thomas Davis, when refused admit- j * tance to the Salvation Artny Home on j Saturday night because, he was drank, 1 t made a number of emphatic remarks : . relating to the character of the Army ;; tad the police force, and ilhiatxated his ; ( >oint, .nth awful thrirUessaess, by j unashing a bottle in the doorway. For s ( the character of his language he was; 5 &ned £2, in default seven days in gaol. 1 THE WBOKG HOUSE. . M "Rogue and vagabond*" incredulously ! * Maculated Louis Charles ißgan, a little ! ( a il or .m»n who had been found asleep I 1 n one of the Harbour Board outbuildags early on Sunday morning. *T don tj< understand. I'm an honest man. iving . , v the Sailors" Home, and mistook those j buildings for the Home." When pressed > to state whether he wanted the case to ! be dealt with summarily, he persisted in , reiterating that he was an honest man, | his evident fear that the Court was , jpbout to deal out to bin some awful 9jid condign punisliment causing considerable amusement, whiah did not moderate on his equally obvious relief when he recognised that the Bench was sympathetic, and only wanted to get at the fa^ts. The evidence wnc in conformity -with the man's statement thai he had been out with a hospitable companion, and when going home went to the wrong comer house. He was told to go, and tie went quickly. AFTEB SEVEN YEARS. A week hack a young man named Harry Pagan was arrested at New Plymouth for a theft which had been committed seven years ago. The charge against him when he appeared this morning was that on 20th March, 1905, he stole two cheques, valued at £23 10/, the property of Nelson Banks. He wae remanded for a week. When bail was requested, the Safe-Inspector stated that the accused had evaded arrest, and when challenge "i some months ago with being the person •wanted, he had so strenuously denied l.is identity that the arrest had been postponed for the time being. Bail was fixed at one surety of £150, or two of £50 each. REMANDED. Norman Cowley, on a charge of bestng failed to provide for his wife and two children, -was remanded to appear at Tauinaiuirui on Wednesday, hail being allowed in one surety of £100, or two of £50 each. William .Johnston, on a. charge of having stolen a trunk, the property of Ida Lucy Powell, -*as remanded to <appear at Ngarna-wahia. on Friday, bail being, allowed in one surety of £50. The prisoner remarked that the matter alleged against him- was -perfectly explainable. •MTSfrfff-T. * TTRftTTS. Richard Wolkes. whose chief .trouble was drink, was sent to gsol for a month for 'begging money on the street. Five shillings and cost* each covered the «dpahdlity of John Brangrove, who motored at night without a light: of John Riddell, •whose horse went a-wamhaing; and of Joshua Jjazer, -who left a number of boxes and trunks outside 'his secondhand shop as etomiling-Hocks for unwary -by-paesers. For failing to comply with tlie pro>visions of the Defence Act, George •Harris-'wae fined £2, «nd George Edward I>v«r had to pay 7/ costs.