POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders were fined 5/ each and. one forfeited , bail. William "Mc- ( Kenzie Fraser (71). who appeared to be f suffering , a recovery, was remanded for a. . week's medical treatment. William Thos. > Winter (36), for his third recent offence, J wae prohibited and fined 20/, in default I three' days' imprisonment. William J Powell (33), for committing a nuisance r whehvhe was. drunk, wa-s fined 20/. i ■ DRIFTED DOWN. *• -Janet.Pollard (51) -was charged with ' vagrancy and with soliciting in Cook * Street. 3 'Constables Wilson and Pott-er gave cviJ deiice.ae to the woman's general habite 1 and. mode of life, and stated that they T hadetopped her last night in Cook Street r when she was in company with a man c whom ehe had just accosted, and whose 9 name ehe gave ac "Jams," but who ad--1 mitred that that was not his name," and c thai he didn't know the woman.' Cone stable-Potter said he had frequently the woman loitering about the ! " street in the daytime. 8 Ifis AVorship: Under such circum--5 etar.cce ac would* lead you to suppose she ha<i no visible means of support? "The Constable: Usually under the influence of liquor. " ' " The woman stated that she got 15/ a week from two eons, while one of the sone "wae at the front, but denied that the money was for a daughter of 15 ycate, who lived with her. She, however, adjnaittcd that efoe had been several times -previously convicted of similar offences. The man mentioned wae juet going to her, she said, at her request. 9 Remarking: that the -woman wa6 more n to ; be pitrcd than blamed, his Worship d eeiitehced her to three months' imprfeone mtnti' i- MISCELIANEOBS. John Fanning (40), David Kelly (43) and Walter. Willi-ame (IS), for bein" absent without leave from the ship \Vongonella, were convicted, and Fauniii<r and Kelly were ordered to forfeit each a 7 day and a-half'e wages, Williams a dave wages, while each man had to pay '7/ ceste. , Lionel J. Turnbull, on a charge that at Tβ Aroha, on February 13, he obtained from Frederrck Caldwell the sum of £5 a by nieans of a valueless cheque, was rea manded to appear at Te Aroha on Thuree- day. ;- Reginald Freeman (36), charged that at ir Christchurch, on January 10, he obtained i k £5 1/ from H. L. Oake' by nieane of a j r. valuelces cheque, wia remanded until c, Friday. ' " 1- Mary Donovan (33), on a charn-e o-f I vagrancy, wae remanded till Friday.