POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 155, 1 July 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

. (Before Mt. E. C. Cutten, S.M.> : DRUNKENNESS. One first offender forfeited bail, and | four others had to pay 5/ each. Thomas .1 no. Knitdson (2S) and Arthur Edward Hill (28) nvere fined -10/ each. NOT "WORTH THE TROUBLE. "I'm \ery sorry, your Worship. The . fruit wasn't, worth the tamable."' stated .htnifb. 'Wilson Taylor, aged' 67 years, who admitted having .stolen 4/ worth of fruit from the front <rf Ahi Ghee, and . Co.'s sihop in .Lower Queen straet ves*-tea-day morning. ■3nb-"lr_pe.ct!tor .Johnston stated; that Taylor, ax well-known, character about the sitteobs. had ibeconie a perfect nuisance to sahop-'ke'crpea-B in Queen Street by his pilfering. Ho Jiad lieen oonvdeteal of a similar offenco a_;hoi±—__-—tek. Taylor was sentenced ita iottrteendays' hard labour. A JUDGE OF _ ACE. ftakarish Fincham did irorf; appear to answer a charge that on, May 2S he loitered an Karangahape. _oadt_o as to obstruct; the traffic. A witness, who was-ort-:thG-fooTrir piriform of a tramcar on the day in question. s.ijd lb a t Fincham was crossing the road and :is the car ajuaroaeiied! hian he didn't 'bestir himself, nntai ibhe result that- the motorman had to -jvull the car up, stopping juet -a couplc-iof feat short of the man. Constable J. J_bera_on said that when he saw 'Fincham just aftea-wairte the man, who seemed to _uve had some drink, insisted that he-tvas a. good' jndge of pace and that tlie. raotonman need not Itave troubled lo .pull up the car, as he could quite well havo got out of the way. Seen next moommg, Fincham: still protested that the roohoiman wais at fault in pulling up the car, and that lie was a sufficiently good judge of pace to have got out of thea road. iFineham was fined 10/ and 33/ costs. BOUGHT STOLEN PROPERTY. "It said this man is eccentric, and I saw a larrikin give him a smack on the nose,'' stated James Russell, of Nelson Street, quoting a police repoat made concerning him when he applied two years ago for a seeond-handdealers license. He was charged with carrying on the business of second-hand dealer without being licensed so.to do. "The man who gave mc a smack on the nose gets Covornnient pay, and I never got my license," he complained. Chief Detective MfeMahon said that in March ilast year a carpenter who worked in a shipwright's yard iv Auckland had left bis box of tools at the workshop, and bad at bi-okeu into, and some tools stolen. The other day, when going along Nelson Street, the man saw some of the tools in defendant's window, and informed the. police. Defendant said he purchased the tools from a man whose name and address he did not know. In July last year defendant had been convicted of dealing without having a liieense, and had been lined t;S. and in view of what had then happened, and this later occurrence, the police, looked on him as a "fence." Defendant was fined £3 and 10/ costs, and warned that if he .were again convicted of the offence he would get the maximum penalty. MISCELLANEOUS. Claude Gavin and Robt. Appleton iwere fined .">/ and 7/ costs each for driving •too fast across the intersection of Queen and Victoria Streets': and a lad under l(i yeans of ager~for a similar offence, was convicted and discharged. (Before Mr. F. Y. Frazer, S.M.) FAVOURITE MOORING PLACE. •'Surely I have beard that name be- ■ fore." remarked his Worship when the I court orderly called in vain for Joseph ''South to appear on a charge of having | loitered in Customs Street West footpath on June 11 so as to obstruct the trallic. After Sergeant Rock had given : evidence that the defendant had several ' times been asked by him to move on, but had persistently come back to anchor on '.he footpath again after moving off it each time, he wns spoken to. These men. the Sergeant explained, moored round the Customs Street coiners in the expectation of some kind • friend coming along and "shouting" for , them. "'One of a distinguished family so far as this Court is concerned," commented the Magistrate, as Smith's record was inspected by liim. Defendant was lined 20/ and 7/ costs. A MOUTH-ORGAN ARTIST. 1 "I've lived -12 years in the country i without a stain on my character," r 'dated John Green, an old man, who . sported a brown velveteen coat that • had n suggestion.of the English gamekeeper, ami who was charged with having loitered on the corner of Queen ami Custom- Streets on June 10. ('.instable I Cannons complaint was that the old ] man persisted in standing on tlie footipalh. going off' when requested to do so. and returning immediately witness bad passscd along. "He's surely a different type from the other man." remarked the Magistrate. Sergeant Rock replied that the old [> man came periodically from the country, ;. and was not exactly a teetotaler when in town. "Dont you play your mouth organ on ! the street when you have a few wines?" I inquired the Sub-Inspector of defendant. "Got it in my pocket now." stated the old man. as his face lit up with a beaming smile at this recognition of his . accomplishment, and even a fine of 5/ and 7/ costs left him with a friendly feeling nnd a smile for those who had heard of hi,; fame ;.s a musician. 0 -MISCELLANEOUS. James Win. Gribble (2(i). who had been arrested al Wellington on a charge that in li'lo lie left his child in Auckland without adequate means of maintenance, was remanded for a week, bail being fixed at one surely of £.>(). Herbert Stevens, of Ponsonby, on a I charge that on June 1(1 he attempted to carnally know a girl just under eleven ie years of age. was committed to ihe ir Supreme Court for trial. The evidence of the girl was lo the effect that while -he war, on t'.ic way home from school accused asked her to go to a room behind hi- : a-ro.ery -hop. and there ram- ! mittc! ihe offence. When arrested, tie- ; trumped up by jealous tradesmen. Hail lr ,;wa.s fixed at two sureties of £100 each. ~-t j hit! accused's solicitor. Mr. London. -.1 , stated thai this nas beyond (he reach ,v of his client, who had boon in vn iy ; i i very small way of busine-,:.