POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1915, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Befo'rr Mewrs. H. Cadneee, C. Campbell and A Huckiey, J.lYb.j DRUNKENNESS. Tlin-o l',r-i unVndi-rn forfeited I .1 I, an.! one «v lined :, .1..- F.li Hi. liar Ibuii 1:1:11 »a, line.l 51 11 ■' •••"-ii-l 'Ifeme. .John Murphy ■I Imi a rliar.-f .if |.i-in« drunk when |.roliil.il.--J. » -'■ remanded t.ll In morrow tv be ia;l with by a magistrate. A CADGEK. fii-M 1.111 admitted that !ip hail m.liritwl alms in l/u..-en Str«-t ••'• Saturday, but stated, in explanation, tli.it In-' I.ml ju.-t U-.-n a very siii.rt time "tit <.f paiil. lia<i had a drop ol ■lrink. nnil ceeing a friend in the Btrret, liii! a»ked fur 11 chilling. S. ninr Si.ret Rutlwkfi- stated th.it Harrison nt u< k a man up in Q-.een Ptre t about .". p.m. ..11 Saturday, and the man m.Tjt :..ii.-.l thf matter to thp n»\t conritahli- In- saw. The constable thrreupoo Cot Marrii»in iirniir observation, and I i-a'.v him stick up f..ur other men and I a>.k for. money, statin? that ho had nut 1 hnd anything I" eat for sonrn consider j aide time. \n indication of his bona I fiili- a* a hungry man maid he found in the fact that Harrison had a. pie in bin t)ork.-t when he »as arrestml, just after having put lip the famine story. He was a man with about sixty previous drunkenness. Accused was sentenced to a months* hard labour. A CHAHGE DEFERRED. A charge against Charles Henry Cox (37), that alK>ut -June 5 hi- Ptole a"watch and a. net of false teeth fr..m a boardinphoune in liobeon Street, -was adjourne<l till Vovemher 11. the Thief Dβtective explaining that the lonp tuljuurn-mi-nt would not !..• to acru.sed'n detriment, as Cot was held f ur trial at tho Supreme Court on another i-harpp. an.l this rharj.'!- would be prooeeded with in time to enable both ca»es to po before the Supreme Court simultaneously.