POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 79, 2 April 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

i Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two firs-t offenders wore fined 5/ each, and one forfeited bail. Alexander Mathie?on (01) who aggravated his drmikennes? by using bad language to a constable who spoke to him. was fined 20/, and prohibited. WOuXDHT WORK Hf K.Z. Alexander Forrester 133), who was arrested when sleeping in a doorway in Qu(>«n Street about one o'clock this morning, and was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, pleaded "guilty to being out of work.' . Constable O'Brien said that Forrester when arrested said he had no money and uowhere t<> sleep, and as a matter of fact -witness had previously come across him sleeping out. Forrester added that he had no time for New Zealand and didn't intend to work in the country-

Constable D. Taylor stated that Forrester was a worthless character, who made a practice of sleeping out and on ships at the wharf. Forrester said that he was waiting hero to get a ship to go home, and the remarked that he would have Ito acquire the habit of regular work, for which purpose he would be sentenced to three months' hard labour. Mo he will work in New Zealand. TRESPASSING CYCLISTS. The pest of the youthful cyclist on the back streets of "Epsom ticcasioned a patrol by Constable Wales last month, in consequence of which half a dozen cvclifits hod to answer at the Court this morning for trespassing on the part of the rood sacred to the pedestrian. Two h»ds had to pay 7/ costs each, and Huntly Knox. Harold Armitage, Ernest Reardon and Harry Fiench w»re fined 5/ and 7/ costs apiece. OTHER PEOPLES POCKETS. : "Such laxity of beh-ivLour as youths helping thearaehcts to cigarette.! from one another's -pocketo is improper and miechievoias, and breaks down ;i proper recognition of the eancity of other peopie'e property." wae ihe pakeha law of tapu enunciated by Mr 11 ('■ Cutten, S.XL, at the Police Court this morning for the benefit of a youth who was charged- with stealing a badge from another boy's coat at the Auckland Technical School. The remarks on the point were provoked by Mr Allan Moody'e explanation on behalf of the accused lad that the young fellows attending thai particular evening class at the technical school had a free and easy habit of going through one anotheris coat pockets for cigaret&ee. and that it wat= in ihe search for a cigarette in that way this boy came across the badge (valued at a shilling), and pulled it. off the coat- Whet induced him to take a trifle so worthless ito him the •boy could not explain, and in the light of the lad's exemplary character counsel ■could not suggest any reaeon.

On learning from Chief-Detective McMajhon. that there vra* m> reaeon to suepeot the accused lad of having gone through the pockets of hie chu;&-;mates for money, Mr Cirtten, S.M.. exercised the discretion allowed magistrates to dismiss the charge as trivial. Ai the same time -be reprehended the practice of flaking (free with even a friend's pockete. in search -of a cigarette, ac being the first etep towards stealing. MISCEIXAICEOtTS. John Takaanini (25), on a charge of aeeanlting Arthur OTtonnell, a. constable, by trying to throw him out of tie way during a rnt?h for the totalisator at Epsom jßsterday. was. at h-is own request, remanded tHI to-morrow.

James Don, a watenside worker, on a charge that a-t South 'Melbourne, on July "2 last, he his wife, was remanded for -a week. Accroed said that •he we-, prepared to pay into the Court here 1-5/ a week.

Arthur w> Dale and Robert Miller, for driving acrose the intersection of Queen nnd Customs Streets at more than a walking pace, had to pay 7/ costs each; and Vincent Capee, for riding an unlighted bicycle in the evening at Avondale, was fined 5/ and 7/ costs.