POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 203, 26 August 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M.) DRTJKKENITESS. Robert iloriarty (65) was greatly aggrieved that he should be charged with breaking his prohibition order because he said he gave no instructions that he should be. prohibited. That he was drunk yesterday he quite readily conceded, but, as a man who could take drink or leave it alone, he objected to being considered a prohibited person, and he did not consider himself so though he had been served with a prohibition order. It was explained that' he came from Kelson, where he had been proliibited. and that he had been robbed soon after he came here. Asked if he wished to get back to Nelson. Moriarty replied. "I've had enough of Nelson, and I'll soon have enough of Auckland." He was remanded till to-morrow morning to think things over in a really sober frame of mind." Three first offenders were fined 5/ each, and one forfeited bail. James Wigg, for breaking his prohibition order, was fined 40/ and costs. A CASUAL THEFT. Thomas Martin Smyth, a middle-aged man. admitted that he had lately been leading a vagrant life, and that on Thursday last he stole a plane and a trap rug, value 32/, the property of the Key. A. Murray. Chief-Detective McMaiion said jthat Smyth was a man addicted to drinking, and he had lately" been sleeping out. On Thursday he found his way to a shed at the back of Mr. Murray's residence in Symonds Street, and from there he stole the articles mentioned, which he sold to a second-hand dealer. Smyth put in a plea.' for leniency; on the ground that this was his first deliberate act of dishonesty, and that it was due to drink. He was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour, and prohibited.