POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Ciutten. S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Agnes Ingwtr*- (48) wub fined 10/. in default 48 hour's' imprisonment. John McDonald (35), charged that 'he ihad beer I disorderly while drunk in Queen Ktreet yesterday, was remomied for a week's medical treatme-ntt. William Jackson (76). for getting drunk when prohibited, was lined .£", in dtffaiilt -""even days' imi prison men. ' Eunice Warner (.35), charged with having i*B-"d bad language wlwn she was drunk at "wr hoiߧe in Karangahape Road, when her landlord called to •wo about the rent, admitted the offence, and at the si*me time vowed vengeance i/n the landlord. She wae sei?tenced to Sfven d-jyn' hard labour. A firut offender ivai? fined 5/. | TR-END WORTH HAVING. William Sexton (39). who had stated ! yesterday, when charged with being an jjdle and disorderly person, t'h_t he had been regularly receiving aiisiet-jnce from a friend, came up ag-.iin. f Chief Detective McMaliou stated that it had been found to be true that a friend waa keeping Sexton. The friend hin»*if got only £2 a w**k-,'but out, of .(•hat he bad al"ow»»d Sex-ton from 12/ to 17/ a week, at times going short of nei-c»-is-iti«* in order that Sex-ton might be Hiipplied. His \V<in«hip .stated til'rat "ie doubted very mui'h whether money obtained in sunh a way eonstitu-teil a defence to the charge of vagrancy. He enjoined Sexton t«> look on the present proccedingi.- as a warning that if he did not get work ht would be brought up again. This time the charge would be.dismissed. I A FIRST LAPSE. Harold Gallot (20) admitted having stolen, between January 1 and March 10, seven oilskin coats, valued at £7, the property of Rawlinson and If wen-en. Chief-Detective ""tlcMatton stated that Gallot hnd been for over four years employed in Rawlinson and Ifwcrsen's warehouse, and had been highly thought of by his employers. Recently, however, he got in tow with a woman, and at the same time began to indulge in excessive drinking, and his dishonesty appeared to date from that time. lie took the coats and sold them to dealers, getting in all 27/6 for the seven. Previously hie character has been excellent. Gallot stated that his dishonesty had been due to drink. Gallot was prohibited, convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, being at the same thne cautioned that should his general conduct not be satisfactory he could be brought up and sentenced on the present charge. He was also required to pay 27/0 costs within a month. MISCELLANEOUS. Arthur B. Kevin (37), who had deserted the s.s. Rotorua on St. Patrick's Day, was sentenced to a week'g imprisonment, and ordered to be put aboard the ship when she sailed.