POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutter.. ?3i.) DRUNKENNESS. "It's the first tinio m eiph,t vcare; I'm a cripple, and 1 liad a paiif; Vve oni> got 4 S on mc. and 1 have to {Tive it to before I go away." tio »W oflYmkr put hi-, case compreheneivelj before h:« Worship in «w bw»*h, and hp »ac convicted and dtoharged. AnI nother Erst offender was fined f>!• \ ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. lvr.n- .lon.v (35) »•** chargpd that !bv means of valueless cheque*. h« ot>-Uajned-W from Murray Mo!!ov on Junfi 130 th. 7..0 from T. ■'. Mclvor on ■>'iw 30th! a pair of Lorn- and !V from .Ino. i Williamson on .Tune 2«tli. and from ill. S. Smith on .limn iitli. Mr. 1-undon j appeared for accused. T. J. Mc hoi. undertaker, said that hi , 1 undertook the burial of accused"? wife iin February, and on JiliH' SOth, accused : called, ami' intimated that he would pay the amount. II" Temarkerl at the time, !"I r-uppose yon thought I had cleared ] out." The account was HO 12/fi, and j accused paid with a cheque for £10, 'petting 7ti change, The cheque was :on a bank at Hamilton, and accused said that he had an olrke at Frankton, and 1 banked at Hamilton. ; John Murray Molloy. licensee of the Yh-toria Hotel! said that accused put up iat the hotel on -lime 3D with hid wife, and while tliere lie offered a cheque for £.■>, asking for t;.' 10' in cash. Hp j>roduipil ii reference from a Mr McKuire, land aprent. of Hamilton, for whom hn said lie had been working for eighteen ] months. Witn<>&3 was satisfied with this, and paid over €2 10/. The cheque was I afterwards returned marked "account icJoi-ed Hamilton." W. 11. WoollamF. chemist. =aid that accused came into his shop with a woman for the purpose of con.-uitinpr a doej tor. Tlie next day lie returned arid I asked witness to accept a t-hequn for £3. ■as he wanted some medicine. Witness inisisted on someone lieiujr found to identify laecus-etl. who then broujjht in a Mr Man- ; nistay. who pronounced him to be -Mr j.lone.s. of Hamilton." The cheque warf dishonoured, -and l.i.ler hp received a letter from accused, who said that, he had closed 'his Hamilton account, and would ir-a.ll to settle up. ! .lolin Willianu-on. a boot dpaliT .it X-ew- ! market, pave evidence of a similar transI action over the purrhasp of a pair of boots, for which ;iccu.-ed tendered :i £1 I i-liniue. and received !• chanjie. He proSdiiced a letter on the ;ame linos as that ! received by the bisL witness. The ca.se is proceeding. ! CHASED DOWN THE LINE, j .lohn Ko!>ert Winkley (25) was on his way down the line when Detective Scott eaugib-t up with lilm at Fr:ir.!:ton Junction yesterday, -anil arrested him on !a charge Unit on July 1 lie stole a watch, chain and medal, value U*. the property of A. W. B. Healer. I Winkley came up this morning on the chaw, and was remanded for a wok. Ii is aUo alleged aarainst liim that he drew, wi-.'nout authority, on another nuui's P.O. bank account MAINTENANCE. Leonard Marshall, a yniinj man. admitted the jnfteniity of two illegitimate children. Mr Matthews, for the complainajit, said that when the iirsi. child was born (in 11109) defendant agreed to pay 7/0 a weei. and when a second one came the agreement was enlarged to 13/ a week. Altogether he had paid Cll2 2. but of laic the payments had been irregular, and an order of the Court, was asked iii order to have the payment* made more regularly, Defendant, said that he was now a married man. having been married about nine months, and Tie cou! 1 hardly pay . 1". a week out of his wane of £1 ?/ a Mr Matthews remarked that defendant knew about the liability before be got married. His Worship made an order for this payment of l.i/ a week, and informed defendant that if he found he could not pay that amount he could apply for a variation of the order. MISCELLANEOUS. ■Aruiur Leslie Uuit-ler. for leaving a horse and cart standing in Albert, Street without having the nilwel of the vehiehs chained, was ■firreri' 3/ and 7 - WWVfi. •Duncan A. CaJilcrwotid 123), charged that at. Hinuera, on .lunn 10. lie broke and entervd the euire of .1. >. Browne, was rcnian-rlied to appear at Morrinsville <m July 16. (William Wellfl (To), who liad on-June 21 nvade a eljjfht woutol' in. his throat, adimit'tcd a charge of having attempted to commit suicide, and. having a week in cuet-od'V on .renmrrd, wae eon-vicit-M and discharged, with an admonition to be careful.