POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Catten, S.M.) DRUNKENHESS. A first offender was fined 5/, and two men, who were "firsts" in law only, had to pay 10/ apiece. William Scott and Thomas Calveri were fined 10/ each, and Stephen Goff was remanded for a week's | medical treatment John Simpson, who appeared at the convalescent end of a week's medical treatment, ihad to pay 17/6 for his cure. A MISSING CHEQUE. James Joseph E. Mangan and Leonard Molloy, two young men, were charged that they stole a cheque valued at £15, the property of George iNlcc'ol. The circumstances disclosed that on the afternoon of March 28th, when Mr. ■Niccol was writing cheques' in hie office, the two accused called and asked for assistance. He spoke with them for some time, during which- he was called away to' the telephone, leaving them alone in his inner office. When he returned he game them an order on the Seamen's Home for a meal and a bed, and they left. ' " Shortly a cheque, which had been drawn" for £15, /was missed from the table of the office, and payment was stopped. Later in the after-, noon Hie two accused called at the Thistle Hotel, where the missing cheque was cashed by Molloy. Molloy was locked up that evening for being drunk, but when word of the theft of the cheque came to the police he toad left the town, and was arrested at Hamilton. His companion, (Mangan,.was arrested in ■town. Molloy pleaded "guilty," and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. 'Siangan put in a plea of "not guilty," and was committed for trial, ■bail being fixed at one surety of £50. FROM THE FIBRE INDUSTRY. Martn Ellis, aged 58, could not understand why he should be charged with being an idle and disorderly pereon, though he did not deny that he had 'been knocking round Auckland for a week or two employed chiefly in the pursuit of the festive long beer, until, ■hie supply of worldly goods Irad shrunk : in proportion to the size of one good round sixpence. He eaid that he had until three weeks ago been employed in the fibre industry at a flaxniill, and if allowed to get out of his present embarrassing environment would remove himeelf -hastily to country surroundings and' remain in the rustic atmosphere for .ever. The Magistrate considered, however; that a little taste of the moral fibre industry might strengthen, the man's intentions, and remanded him for a" week. THEY KURT HIM. Thomas Myers,, an elderly man, was charged that on Monday he "stole a pair of shoes, valued at 12/6, the property of Win. Riley. He ihad stayed for a night at a boarding-house, and /was ac? eomruodated in a room occupied by Riley and another man. After Myers -had left in the morning, Riley could" not find hie shoes, which -the police hunted up in a, second-hand dealer's .shop down the street a bit. Myere had been observed going out in the morning with a parcel under due coat, while the second-hand dealer recognised him as the man who sold her tile shoes. Hβ said 'he wae I anxious to get rid of them because they hurt him. Myere said that he had been drinking, and could not remember ever staying at the boarding-house. "The same old tale," commented ChiefDetectiye McMahon. "This is his sixth theft, and he never remembers. 5, Myers was sentenced to three months' hard labour. AN ADOPTION CASE. An elderly woman named Mre Good-' hall was charged under the Infants' Life Protection Act -with having adopted a child under an arrangement 4>y which she was to receive 7/6 a week for its keep,, when ehe woe not licensed to adopt children. She had received the child and agreed to adopt it, and had later applied for a license, which wae refused beeaiKe it was considered ehe was too old. The accused said that she had been accustomed to. midwifery, and though she had arranged to accept 7/6 a week for the child's keep, .that arrangement had not been fulfilled, and she had received no money. She was adjudged to have committed a •technical breach of the Act by enterinointo an agreement whei* she was not licensed, and was convicted and ordered to pay the costs, 7/. MISCELLANEOUS. ■David Sands, whose sheep, while graz ing at Mt Eden, -had been worried by dogs, was fined 10/ and 7/ coete for vJ mitting some, of the sheep to wander on the road. For ill-treating cattle by keeping them in a paddock without providing them with sufficient water Tnos James Hayr wag fined 40/- and 7/- Ws tsl