POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 133, 5 June 1914, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E C. Cutten. S.M.) DKD-___ fl _ 3SS. Four first offenders were fined 5/ each, and two forfeited bail. Andrew Casey and John Ernest Bull were fined 10/ apiece. Thomas Roberts, who admitted that he had some drink although prohibited, but protested that he wasn't drunk, was remanded for a week's medical treatment. ALL IN HOBSON STREET. Ada Warner, a neatly dressed woman, of very meek demeanour, was charged with having been drunk in Hobson Street and having broken her prohibition order, seven panes of glass in a dwelling-house window, and having broken the cell pan at the police station. She had nothing to say for herself when Senior fc'ergt. Rutledge stated that thi3 was her fifth offence for drunkenness within the last six months, and that she had broken the cell pan by knocking it against the door when she was locked up.

She was fined £2, in default 14 days' imprisonment, and was ordered to pay 22/6 damages.

"Just came out yesterday," once more pleaded Sarah Warner, an elderly woman who admitted having been drunk in Hobson Street yesterday, her ninth lapse in the last half-year, and the fifth breach of her prohibition ordersince January 0. She was sentenced to a month's hard labour, as also was Annie -McCarthy, another elderly woman, who also had been found drunk in Hobson street yesterday, her fourth lapse in six months, and the fifth hole made in her prohibition order. (Before M T . F. V. Frazer, R__). HIT THE CONDUCTOR. " When a train conductor is on duty he is a sen-ant of the public, and to interfere with him is interfering with the public convenience and service," impressed the Magistrate on R. Jveonard, who admitted that on May 22 he assaulted E. Hard—tan, a tram car conductor.

Senior-Sergt. Rutledge said that Hardman put Leonard off a Dominion Road car, on its way out, on account of his demeanour, tbe latter demurring very much. When the ear was returning to town, defendant got on it at Valley Road Btop, and struck the conductor a number of severe blows, -with the result that iHardman had to be attended to at a chemist's shop, -whale the car was delayed nearly fifteen minutes. ■Leonard said that ihe had apologised to __rdn—tn and to the Tramway Com.(pany for this conduct. He and -Hardman, he said, had been on unfriendly terms for some time, and he resented very much Hardman ordering Mm off the car ■when he wasn't even undeT tho influence of drink, having had only one or two drinks. (He asked why he had been put off the car, and was told he would be put off again, whereupon he lost his temper. In order to pracfcicallv demonstrate to Leonard the Bench's view of any interference with a tramway-man on duty, bis •Worship fined 'him £5 and 7/ costs. _nSC__l__N-OTJS. /Andrew T. W. Allen, for -failing to comply with an order of maintenance with respect to this wife, the arrears bo •ing £15, was given a fortnight in wh : ch to pay, failing which he "was sentenced to a month's hard labour.

For driving on the wronf: side of the street, John iM——urn was 'fined 5/ and 7/ costs.

Frederick — —-—man (59) on a charge that on iFriday last he stole a suitcase and contents, value £20, the property of Tf. L. Friend, was Temanded ior a week. The allegation against him is that Ihe stole the suit-case from Glenalvon boardinghouse, and sold it to a secondhand dealer. When arrested hy Detertive Sweeney, he had articles on h*Ti which will probably form the subject of a second charge of t__ft.

Edward Priestly and John Lamprell, for being absent without leave from tho s.s. Zealandic, thus delaying the boat's departure, were formally sentenced to seven days' hard labour, and ordered to be put on the ship by sailing time and to pay costs.