POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 307, 24 December 1912, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

A EIGHT LIST. Proceedings at the Police Court this morning were of brief duration, and related to lapses of a comparatively harmless character. Messrs. M. J. Coyie, E. Denby, and G. Davics, J.P.s, presided. Of a batch of serv-en who had strayed from the path of sobriety, three were first offender*. One was convicted and discharged, and the other two were left poorer by the amount of their bail to make good resolves at this season of peace and goodwill to all men. Anotner offender, whose adventures, while he was seeing through a glass daxkly, made it advisable to have him Tcmoved to the hospital, was remanded to appear in a week's time.

James Cromwell, whose recent career of insobriety was rapidly tending to qualify him for a place among the "Ironsides " at Mount Eden, and who had abused the leniency of the Magistrate, who leniently gave him a trtcmce to puil himself together, was convicted of drunkenness and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. On a charge of breaking his prohibition order he wa_s remanded to appear before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M.

Mary Baker pleaded guirty to a charge of drunkenness and disorderly condnet, and consented to take out a prohibition order against herself.

William Haining was not prepared to plead guiky to a charge that he hod assaulted and considerably damaged John Maxwell (who is now under medical care with a broken nose), but admitted that he did not know much about the incident. He was remanded on bail until the 31st inst.

Henry Parker was Temanded for a week on a charge of breaking the separation order that forbids him to interfere with his wife. Bail was fixed in a small amount.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cwfcteo, S.M.). THE NELSON STREET CASE. The hearing of the charges against David Creach, of having assaulted Alexander Home, and of habitually consorting with women of disrepute, "was continued yesterday afternoon. Charges of vagrancy were also heard against Margaret Beatrice McNeil and Daisy VHII who had been found, in the house in Nelson Street, occupied by Creach, and at the c—mc time a cross charge, by Creach, against Home lor assault was taken. After Creach had made his defence (conducted by Mr Lundon), Abating tha t Home had thrown two pieces of wood sat him, and denying that he had thrown a ! tomahawk at Home, the Magistrate said I that he was not at all satisfied with the 1 evidence given for the defence. He convicted Creach of assault, and sentenced him to a month's hard labour. The evidence as to consorting was held not to prove habitual consorting, and the charge in oonectron therewith was dismissed, as also was the chaTge of assault against the complainant Home. The two women were convicted on the vagrancy charges, and ordered to come up for s<mtence when called on, the unders'banding being that they would tie called on if they did not secure lawful work "within a month.

The Khedive yesterday opened an addition to the Assuan dam costing one and a-lraif millions. Lord Kitchener read King GeoTgt'c tnessage.