POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

—I g (Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) J DRUNKENNESS. [ Of a dozen offenders eight were firs p offenders, who were dealt with accord , I tngly. Ellen Cairns declined an oppor ; tunity to consent to the issue of a pro , hibition order, and was fined 10/. wit! . the usual default of lb hours' imprison ment. (ieorge Sutton suffered similarly | and William Moncrieff, a country visitor I whose cash had been reduced to 0/8, hac i the fine made 0,. in order to areommo I date his financial stress, and leave hire . enougli in coppers to fret a start away from the city, but not enough to continue festivities on. GETTING READY FOR XMAS. , "One of those pests that come to I town, and loiter about the back streets, I begging money all day long," was Fredj crick Hunt's commendation from Chief- . detective Mcilahon. Hunt admitted that he had asked for money in Swanson I Street for drink, but said that it was I ;'i!i due to a mistake, made when he ! had a drop of drink. Ho added that ]he had come to town on Wednesday, and j had had a drop of drink, but could not | remember begging for money. ! He was given a chance to make good | his promise to get out to the country | and work by being convicted and ordered I'm come up for sentence when called on. ! William Kennedy, in answer to a charge that he was an idle and disorderly person, said that he had come from Taumarunui about a month ago with a fair sum of money, and got on tbe spr2e, with the result that he soon went ! through it- He admitted that since r.is I money gave out he had been associating j with "undesirables. He was sentenced to | a month's hard labour. i CHARGES OF ASSAULT. David Oreach. aged 64, was charged that on Wednesday night he assaulted Alexander Home at a house at Nelson Street by striking him with an axe: i and also "that he was an idle and disorderly person, whose habitual companions were undesirable women. At the same time Margaret Beatrice McNeil, aged 25 years, was charged that she was a rogue and a vagabond with insufficient lawful means of support. The accused | man Oreach. entered a cross charge j against the complainant Home, that the latter had assaulted him and also a girl i named Thompson. ' The evidence of Home was to the effect that he was accosted on the street and taken to the house by the woman McNeil, who refused to give him change out of a £1 note he handed her, and called Creach. who threw a tomahawk at him, striking him on the shoulder. He denied that he assaulted Creach. or anyone else, in any way. Police evidence was to the effect that after Home had made a cociplaint two detectives went and arrested Creach and McNeil and a woman named Daisy Hill, -who were in the house. Both women were stated hy tbe detectives to be women of no repute. A little girl stated on behalf of Creach that she saw a man, whom she identified as Home, stagger into Creach's yard and use bad language to him, concluding by throwing two pieces of wood at Creach, one of them hitting him on the head. (Proceeding.) MISCELLANEOUS. Thomas Hammond, aged 32, was charged that on Saturday he indecently assaulted a little girl, and was remanded for a week, tbe Sub-Inspector stating that probably two other charges would be preferred against the accused.