POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 34, 9 February 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. W. Coltman, J.P.;] D KUNKENICES S. A line of five firet offenders paid the usual 5/. Jafet Steveneon, who had aggravated lius offence by breaking the glass of a swing door in a. thotel from which he liail been ejected, was fiueil 5/ -and ordered ito pay ±be amount of the damage, namely, 30/. Henry Clurics Connor, who admitted committing a grossly indecent act, ia "Vulcan Lane, while drunk, was fined £2 and 5/ for drunkenness. A MYTHICAL ACCIDENT. "This man was arrested at Huntly on Saturday." said the Su-Mnepeetor when Hugh Pansone, a labouring man, was placed in the dock on a chargo of being found helplessly drunk. "lie asked leave to use the telephone anil i~ang up a doctor at Huntly with a tale of a younjt man who had been cut tt> pieece. His conduct, was so strange that the camsU'ble -decided to lock him up. The constable thought at iiret that tie man was a lunatic, but afterwards it appeared that he was drunk. ~T:ic! doator came on the scen-e later, and is was found that there had been- no accident/ Parsons was remanded till Thursday. ,' ' "' EXTRADITED. Nathaniel Bernstein, the yonug man who wao extradited from Sydney- on a charge of stealing £.107 0/9 in* good* :iud moiiej-, tiie pro_perty of Hannah Bros., appeared and wae remanded for a week. Air. Baxter, wlio appeared for the prosecution, in applying for the- remand, stated that time was required to get evidencs together. Accused protested that a week was too long to wait, and added .that lie had only just arrived from Sydney. The affair, he. protested, was not a theft, but a business transaction, Mr. Baxter remarked that all the .circumstances pointed to , the accused's intention to abscond. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £100 or ofie of £200, ALLEGED THREAT TO KILL. An unusual, charge was preferred, against Edward Goulding Bod-en (Mr. M. D. Mahoney), an elderly man, who, it was alleged, sent a letter on January 28 to one Joseph Spinley, threatening to kill three persons named Morris, Allen, and Si&sone. Oh the application of the police Boden was remanded for a week, bail being allowed in two sur-ctics-of £50. RACEGOER'S TICKET.* William Barlow (Mr. 31. D. Miuibney)' pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to produce 'his ticket immediately -when, it was demanded by a railway inspector on tlio Ellerslie platform a.t theNew Year. Inspector JT-roet said he asked defendant for hie ticket, ai. the barrier, and the' man immediatehbolted, only to be caught by a constable. He then eaid ho had lost it. iMr. Mahoney said bis client was not on the platform, but outside the barrier between the platform and the racecourse entrance. The inspector contended that the incident took place on railway property, but the ibeneh decided to give the defendant the benefit of .the doubt, and dismissed the information, remarking that Barlow should not have tried .to get thTDugih without a ticket". MISCELLANEOUS. James Brown, on remand ,for medical observation -under a charge af, vagrancy, was again remanded for three daw. Dr. B. J. Dudley -was fined 5/' for. leaving his motor car standing in. Customs Stree-t for more than the police considered a reasonable period. Charles Cunningham, for leaving hie cart in the street with n-o chain on. the wheel, :»-».s fined a similar amount. (Before Mr E. C. Cntten,. .S.M.J.

BROKEN ORDERS. William Mumford admitted getting drunk while prohibited, but as his record had previously been good he wne let off with a fine of 10/. Martin Saunders, who did "not appear to answer a charge of procuring liquor during the currency of his prohibition order, was fined £2. FOR THEFT. Herbert Clamtree Dixon, a young man, came up for sentence on a charge of stealing a bicycle at Whangarei on January 17. After considering the probation officer's report, hia Worship imposed a sentence of three months' hard labour. BOTHERED HER. "He keeps eomng jto the door ana asking to speak to mc, wherever I am," said Evelyn Connolly, a nurse, in asking that Thos. Hodgson Prescott, a miner, should be bound over to refrain from using insulting language towards her. "He often comes round drunk," she added, ''and it doesn't look well it doesn't look at all well." She said her nursing work took her to a number of houses, and Prescotfs conduct had .done one of her patients a lot of harm. The matter was settled 'by his Worship taking out a prohibition order against defendant, with the latter , * consent.

air. W. H. K. Redmond, MiP. for Clare irt tJie British House of Commons, will pass through Auckland at the end of this week by the Marama, on hi« way home from Australia. Mr. 11. J. Sheahan has received a cable from Mr. -Redmond, accepting from the Irishmen of Auckland the reception and welcome which is to be extended to him on Friday evening in the concert chamber of the Town Hall. Mr. Redmond was in ISB3 out here with hk 'brother Mr. John Redmond, the present leader of the Trieh party, and they were the first Irish delegates to visit Australia. Mrs. Redmond, who is an Australian lady, was married when Mr. Bedmond visited Australia in 18S3, and is accompanying her husband on his present tour. °