POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

ißrfore Mr. V. V. Prazer. S.M.) I I DRTTITSZEKirESS.

I TVo firM. ofjemlere were convicted and I I discharged, two -were fined 5/. and one ] i forfeits Irtii). iWilUam iPorter (34). j [ win) (oneidvrcd That lip was quite .-ap- p i a 111 c iif looking Tiftcr himself, though i ili«' >-on*vt-able who arrested lii-m conoid- ; I ered that, tip waji in of falling under a. framing tram, wan fined 20.' Sarali Dennis (j>o). for hrr c'jii'h of- j fc-nce n! clnmkpnnofs wMhi-n fhe p-i«*t six mom he nn.i the third breach of Ikt proh?bHinn nnler. ii-ari fined CJ. in el«- ( fault seven days' im-priconment. i Ilfiwie RrtV.hie (20. who ailmiHe.l I I ha: Rht- had b.-en drunk in .WVllceley J Street last night, and was also ; with being id!<> anil disorderly, pleaded ! fur a chance 10 yet away to O.'isbornp, j given I , k> c)rance li> get away to work, i by Iheiriir <-onvii"tfd ami ordered to c.nn* 1 i up -for r-entenc- when i-alled upon. MADE A MISTAKE. Allan Me.Rae, an old man. a<lmitte<] ; that ho -iTiivkr a, man who was walking in Queen Street vvi-.tmiiiT an.prnn.oTl. i and that he a]»n "broke his prohibition • order by gating <lnmk. ! N'ni-or-Scrgeu'it Ivtil stated that :!ipold man. whhoin any provocation »t ; nil. .-truck ii partser-by in C/invn Strce!. ! afipnvardrt explained that he h.id ■iiifii annoyed by a man. anil lip took tlip man ho Ptruek fur that, person, bii: made a, mwlakp. He was. nlthonyh prohibited, slightly under (he influence of liquor ii't the time, j 'MeKan Kiiil '.-.xi bo had been in the j Oosxley Iln-me, .but hail- left there as a j man engaged him to work fur him at ■ lli-THiT-reon. The man had not carried ! Dili, his engagement, and deponent eoiild I nut now get back 1o tlie Home and had ■ loKt hfc> pension: hence hies annoyance, j Kor t-.'w af«anlt, aeeaised wae fined i •Ji>.. in default three da>v" imprison- i •ment; for breaking his order, he was lined .€'2. in default seven days' imprisonment. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. .Toim O'Oonn-or. about 38 years of age. admitted that on May Vl hr- a'ttemfrted to eonrmil suicide at Tuakuii iby rutting his throat with a knife. SpnioT-Sergearrt Ttiitledge Raid that I the man >had had- a diepul« with hia ' wife and had gone away to Tnakau, | he usually worked, lie had spy- ! eral drinks there, and- then cut hifl j throat with a knife. He had relatives I at K.-h"y}>er Paias in 'the city "who wer.» ! quhf prepared In took after him. while ■he had p.leo effected a reconciliation with his wife. The hospi;al account was £11 , 8/. I O'Conncll eaid .that he had had some ' drink and was a hit depressed -when he roromittPd the a<:. but it would not : oivur atjain. Aeniseil nas ron-vi.'t-i j i| and OTuered to j .-ome up foT ueirteiK-c when called upon, \ a pTovisitm .being made that he should i pay tin" hospital aivmin; within a i numl'h. LOOKING FOR IJTK. "This offence I think i= due to ; drink/ staled Chief Detective MeMahon, '•due to the theft of two inkwells from ' the office of Thomas Vivian, in Fort , Street, on Wednesday last week by William Lee (r>4)." -The man lias only a short list, and all for drink. He had some drink, and took these ink-wells an.l , sold them to a second-hand dealer," conohided the detective. Accused, who admitted the olTem-c. paying lie m< drunk at (lie time, wan i fined \>n/. ; THE ONLY COURSE. \ •■None of the Homes will tuke her ill." j reported Senior .Serpeant Rut ledge, of! Christina Larsen. aged 02 year?, who j had been found a week sleeping in | an old outhouse in Khyber l'as-i ltoad. j '"Adjutant <;<-irdon. of the Salvation! Army, states that last time she took thf ' old woman in they washed lier ann i <'lcan*nl her up. and thnt; hours later Larson was out of the Home and drnnK ' again. Kha swim too contrary to stay anywhere." After evidence as to the old woman's independent vagrant habits, the state- j ment, madt* that her misguided in- , dependence came from the faot tliat she ' got the pension, his Worship sentenced to a month's imprisonment,. •That's the only course, as the Homes can't keep her in," commented the magistrate. •IaGHCrLASS CONTECTIOYERY* , Emily Jane Mason (3(51, Minnie Black ] (471. Bella Molloy l3Bi. and Lucy j Busing rj'.l). were brought up on vari- ■ oils charge? of vagrancy, the three latter ' being al-o <harged with being concerned in the keeping nf n brothel in I'pner ; Queen Street. ".Inst, the usual k(nd of soft-drink | =ho[)." stated Sergeant. Fraser. desprilj- | ing the place where the accused were I arrested, lie added that Minnie Blade I opened the plaj-e on May IS. and stocked it wi'fh about a do/en bottle- of lemonade, two or three tins of lollie.s. a-nd two i or thro- I ins of biscuit.*, while the furni , tiITP of the tack rooms consisted of four i ehair= and some mattresses on the floor. | The Sergeant said he interviewed Black. 1 and asked her what kind of shop she was , going to keep, and nhe replied., "A soff | drink and higii-class confectionery shop.'' j He gave evidence a.s to the other womej . consorting at the place with men of "a i low class, who went there, in numbers. '"It's about the lowest place I've, seen in Auckland." he concluded. Several constables gave evidence as to i the character of the housr-. "'I dare you to say > am not a. reFpectihle woman." stated Black, in the box. to Sergeant Rtitledge. She admitted previous eunvictions. "But whose fault was it?' , sh* demanded, fiercely. "The police's," she added. j Lney Busing, thmigh admitting several ■ previou , ! convictions, stated as an alleged extenuation that she "had never been pinched except by Sergeant Fraser." Hid Worship sentenced Mason (only & casual visitor at the place) to a month's ] hard labour, and the other three to three I months' hard labour each. j

MISCELLANEOUS.

For motoring- too fast acros? the Qnerrt and Wellesley Streets intersection, Theodora H. Casey was fined 20/ and 7/ costs, i and for nrttinfj a corner in Que.en Strre.t on a motor cycle JTarry Yrngley was also ; fined 20/ and costs. Jas. R. Robinson, I for le&yin*? «i motor-car nnreaBonably Ion;; in Queen Street, was fined 20/ and ensts; and Samuel Crooks, for driving a horse and -trap at more than i a walkinp paf p, ovrr the Oucon-Cnstom!" ' Ftnvu int.PTWT.lion. -a-a-s finrt 20/ and : joopt-s. A fiimilar tino motod ont to ■I. .1. Salmon for <lriTinf: on thr WTonj sidf in Qnrvn Strrot. and to Alfred ('"had- i jwirk f.ir not having a tail light on his] j motor-car ti t<r sunset.