POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) BBU JTKExi xifiSS. Three first offenders -were fined 5/ each and two forfeited bail. Another firet offender was prohibited, and remanded till Monday. Florence' Chadwick was remanded, for a week. Samuel Jno. Lee (44), for using bad language when he was drunk, was fined £2. A ■respectable-looking woman admitted having been drunk in a railway carriage at Newmarket ~ yesterday afternoon, but stated that the breaking of a pane of glass in the carriage was the result of an accident. Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay 21/6 costs. HAD A GOOD TIME. "He has been on a big drinking bout, and was bere the other day with something over £3, which has now been considerably reduced," started Senior-Sergt.' Rutledge respecting, William B. Griffiths (45), who was found at half-past nine last night sleeping in one of J. J. Craig's yards. The Sergeant stated that Griffiths was suffering from the effects of liquor, and the man was remanded for a week's medical treatment. ALLEGED ASSATTLT. WBJlliam Sheeran (32) iwas charged that last night, he assaulted Victor Bowdler, and was remanded till Friday, bail being allowed in one. surety - of £20- ---„, Sheeran was arrested about half-past eight last night.on a complaint that a few minutes previously he''had assaulted a man in Elliott" Street, knocking him down and punching him. The constable vent and found Bowdler at the corner of "Wellesley Street and Elliott Street with hie face cut and bruised and covered with blood. Both Bowdler and Sheeran were taken to the police station, and the former was forwarded to the hospital to- be attended to. The chaxge was laid against .Sheeran on| the information of a spectator. Sheeran stated that he had been provoked. OH THE WROirO ROAD. William Lever, a youth of seventeen, admitted that between r November land March 13 lie stole sums of money, aggregating £20, also that he stole elates, exercise and invoice books, etc, valued at 33/4. - Chief Detective McMahon statefl that the lad had been working for. about nine monthe for a stationer in Queen Street. His father was dead, and hie mother was working in the city as a housekeeper, and had. not been in touch with him for some months. He had started by taking 2/,. and had gradually increased the- size of the thefts until the amount taken now -aggregated . about . £38, though the charge was made £20 in order that he might be dealt with in the Lower" Court. He had been dismissed from his previous billet for dishonesty. The Chief Detective suggested that the best thing to do* with the lad was to sentence him to a short term of imprisonment, and to recemimend this transfer to an industrial school. His Woreihip accepted the suggestion, and sentenced -Lever to two. months' imprisonment, so that he might be held pending arrangements to have him transferred to an industrial school.