POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer. S.M.) t drunkenness. ': I Three first offenders forfeited bail, , J and three had to pay 5/ a-piece for overindulgence. ' ! "It was a wet da}-. arH I couldn't . help it," stated Williai-. Uonnelly (6-D----when he was charged lli.it he had got . drunk yesterday when he wa.< prohibited- , , , A constable stated that Donnelly «'« very drunk and hanging to a lamp-post when he was arrested. "I »'ae waiting | till the rain cleared," remarked the man. j who -svae fined 40/, not for getting under j a lamp-post out of the wet, but for j leaving the shelter of his prohibition : order to "have a wet." Vm. McKie. who had got drunk when prohibited, said that he thought t'io order was up on the 15th. June; instead ' of that it was the 25th. The mistake ' co.it him a line of 20/, in default three ■ daye. For entering an hotel when .-he ■ was prohibited, Sophia iMary Ellis was ■ fiiifd 20/. CARELESS WITH HIS CASH. ; Henry Draper, who appeared on a ■ charge of having failed to comply with a . maintenance order respecting his wife, i asked for a week's remand. The wife objected, stating hotly that . she had to work in the rain and cold to i keep the children and provide them with medical attention, while "his lordship" i walked a'joiit with his hands in his poc- , ket. His Worship, who had prior knowt ledge of ihe parties and their character- ■ stated that he would grant the ■ adjournment on condition that meanI time Draper paid something for the wife's maintenance. "How much money - ! have you on 3'ou, Draper?" he auked de- . I femkiit. ! f I "About £I,*' replied defendant. 1 "lie borrowed £3 this morning from Jackson to pay his solicitor," interjected ! the wife. His Worship stated that defendant . would have to pay 15/ out of the £ 1 to iii= wife for maintenance during the re- j - mand. t "She'll have to give mc a receipt for i it." insisted Draper, but his Worship dai cided that if the money were paid over i in Court in front of him a receipt would be unnecessary. ;< Draper then unguardedly drew twoj t £1 notes out of his pocket to pay. i i "Oh!" ejaculated his Worship, when! t he saw twice the money that Draper hid t said he possessed. ''That's not good c enough. You'll have to pay her £1 out i f, of that £2." And the unwary Draper,' r protesting that he had still to pay his t lawyer, had to pay over £1. 0 SINS OF THE SON. ! Oharles Hailwood was charged that j ho had failed to comply with an c-rder I of maintenance respecting the maintenf ance <>f an illegitimate child, of which defendant's hail been adjudged the ~ putative father, die was also called on 1 to show cause why he Should not pay r more than a shilling a week towards j, the child's maintenance. The circumstances etated by Mr. F. J. Stilling were tiliat an affiliation order s had been made early in 1013 against dej- fendnnt'd son. but the young fellow disappearp.l. and the girl, who had some difficulty in fending for both 'herself and s the child, got -an order of 1/- a week I against tue child's grandfather. p "A ca>e where the sins of the son are visited on the father!" commented hie ." Worship. s Mr. Stilling stated that since the out- . r.reak of the war it had been discovered s by the local Patriotic Committee, to 0 n'hom the girl applied for help, that tbe ~ young fellow who was father of the f child had enlisted in New South Wales. Representations were made to the De- . fence Department in New South Wales, p with the result that 1/- a day had been , allotted from the soldier's pay for the '■ ohild. though so far none of this had c reached the girl. There was, however, a considerable sum in anoars Chat the j' lad'a father might pay off. The defendant (for whom Mr. Hackebt t - appeared) gave evidence to the effect c that he had himself, his wife, and eight f chiidTen dependent on his weekly earnings of £3 6/-. HLs Worship remarked that the child r had now been properly provided for j through the allotment of its father's pay. and the information against the father's father would be dismissed. THE CREW AND THE CARGO. Emil Jansen (23), Georges Sirtaina (16). Gorgen Eriksen (37), and Ernist Eikert (18), sailors off the Norwegian ship Cis, were charged that yesterday they absented themselves from the ehi'p without lave. Mr. Lundon, who appeared for two of p the men, stated that two of the men were Russians, one a Norwegian, and ( _ one a Belgian, and that there was much more ir. the ease than appeared on the surface. The ship had loaded at Noumea with nickel ore, and the men iiad siened on to sail to , Ne-w York, nut owing tc 'I the chip having been dismasted she°had * to put into Auckland in distress. It had 8 since transpired that the ship's destina■J tion was Glasgow. That being so, and 1 the cargo being contraband of war, the men who had signed on for a neutral 0 port, could not be forced to remain on 0 board jf they desired to leave. Mr. W. Cracroft Wilson, ror two of the men, corroborated Mr. Lundon's remarks, r - and added that in view of the German 11 practice of torpedoing neutral ships 1- carrying contraband, his clients had no> \ desire to , run a risk which had not been n apparent to them when they signed on. j They had signed on to sail to a neutral port, and lo change the port of destination, as had been stated, amounted prac- .. tically to kidnapping. » 111 reply to his Worship tne Norwegian Consul stated that the port of destination, according to the articles, was "some port in Europe," and it was intended to sign off these men at the h Azores. sf j Remarking that according to his gooy, i graphy the Azores scarcely came, within li- the bounds of Europe, "nis Worship of agreed to a request from Mr. Lundon r- that the case should be remanded till n Friday, and granted bail in £100 in each 'h case, n provision being that the men d. should stay on the ship meantime. vt MISCELLANEOUS. c Harry Woods, for cutting on to the , ( j wroncr side of Queen .Street with a motor vi car in order to clear a tram, was line! rs 5/ and 7/ costs. Horace Lamb, for not , n obeying the traffic by-law at the Ivliyber v Paea and Symonds Street corner.'was . (1 lined 5/ and 7/ costs. Maunsell Hard- ,_ ing, who had accidentally switched off c the electric light on his motor car when v driving up Queen Street, was lined 5/ and 7/ costs for driving without lights after sunset. Henry Hart, fur drivin" at mor> 'than a walking pace across the intersection of Queen and Victoria ds Streets, was fined 5/ and 7/ costs )ii George dc Clivc Lowe, for driving a y. motor car in Symonds Street after sune. set with only one head light burnin« was fined 10/ and 7/ a costs, ; g.

John E. Murdoch (19), charged that on April 12, hp. stole a pair of trousen and a razor at Mokau, was remanded to appear at Xew Plymouth on June 30. W. E. Sclnvabe was sentenced to four* teen days' imprisonment for default on a maintenance order, the warrant not te issue if the arrears and costs are paid within a week. Samuel Hy. Gill was ordered to find a bond of £100 as surety for compliance with a maintenance order respecting hia wife, the order to be suspended so long a.s ho keeps up the payment* under tne order and pays 20/ costs within a week.