POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 4 August 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Deforc Mr E. C. Cuttcn, S.M.) I DRUNKENNESS. 1 Six firr.t offenders forfeited bail, and l one. was lined -V, while yet another, c whose inebriated fancy it was to make t the welkin ring round Custom* Street c on Saturday afternoon, was charged 7/0 I for the co:"ic<Mt. Hairy BoyMB, who \ broke his prohibition order und also mmmitted n nuisance <vi the street, was sentenced to three days' hard labour. MlehaM Keogh'e third offence got him | aloo three, day* , hard labour. rililHG IN THE INTERVAL. * James Hallornn, alias Dunleyy, who t ' was "'ivanted" in connection with the theft of a swag, was found drunk in Customs Street, on Saturday. ~ Chief Detective McMahon ii>keil that ' () the theft charge be adjourned for:', week, nml t'.ie remand was granted. In order that, the accused alight profitably fill in Hip. interval, he was" sentenced to sewn days' hard labour for. being drunk on the street. d HOT A '■ SCOUT." \ Arthur Fltzgibhons, a comparatively * young man. was commended l>y Chief ' Detective McMahon ns a vagrant person, j who indulged in "Uwt mean and con- ' temptiblc occupation, scout in sly jrog- j dealing." . ] •I was never a .-cout," protested I-it7- , gibbons. "It is only ■ fortnight since. I t was working." ■ ••You can so to work tor another fortnicht," remarked the magistrate, as he sentenced accused to fourteen days' hard labour. IN A HUBK"? HOME. \ voting woman named (Ma-rgarct Ann Jennings, was chared that on -Inly Iβ, I she quitted it tramoar while it was in J motion. Her father admitted that hi? > daughter had infringed the by-laws as S Constable Annh said that the young ! lady "ot off the oar when it m jroing about 15 miles an .hour between Karenmthapc Road and East Street. She led ' and got rather badly hurt and shaken • up. She told him that she WM in a \ hnrry to get home. 'ITie magistrate montioned tnnt tnc defendant'bad already had her pnniehiiu'nt. and in the circuinetancei he would only order her to pay the eor.ts, 7/. A GAME OF BILLIARDS. Ernest Alfred Wm. Thompson, aged in yean, admitted that on July 4 be stole, a watch, watchgtMxd, and pendant, value £!>, the property of Thos. G. Wil-C-hief Detective Mc>fahon said that i on the day in qcstion, Thompson was in i the company of a young man named 3iar- t nett. Tsarne.ll jmd Wilson had a game of I billiards in a billiard-room, the latter. ] during the. course of the game, taking off I bis coat and vest and leaving them on a chair. Sometime after he had put his coat and vest on npiin, he mis«riJ - the watch and chain, and informed ihe police. Detective ScoH traced the articles to the possession of Thompon. whn bad sold some valuables cheap to another ] young man. Thompon had hren engaged U a taxi-driver, and had hitherto heen H of good reputation. 1 Accused was remanded for sentence for 1 a week, pending the Probation Oliicer'd ' report. MISCELIANEOtrS. John 11. Hurley (:(4),0n a. charge tJiat bo obtained .C 2 2/« from Clement Wright by false pretences, was remanded for a week. Four informations agallUt Tliomus .Strange, for tilling ■tort-weight bread, wero adjourned. •liiinta nog.in, churned- that lie !*tole a. portmanteau and tlothing. value £39, the property of P. A, Hadley; and William Lineen, charged that be received certain of the clothing, know- \ ing it to have been dishonestly obtained. * were remanded till Thur.-day, hail being ' fixed in each cane at two sureties of £30,1 * or one of .CIUO. It