POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 18, 21 January 1916, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Before .Mr. F...Y. Frazer, S.M.) DRUNKENMESS. A first offender, 83 years of age, forfeited bail. Another man, 70 years of age, who had taken £ 1 belonging to his wife and had got drunk, was convicted and discharged for the over-indulgence. A first-offending soldier was fined a/. Andrew Petersen (63)-, who had 'done it three-times recently;-was prohibited out of hand and fined 20/. Chas. Thomas Smith (30), for committing a nuisance when he was Irunk, was fined £3, i a default fourteen days. SAID HE WAS JUST SLEEPY. Alfred Richmond Barton (3S), who had been found sleeping beside the footpath at College Hill yesterday alter. noon v Constable Rpjbjnson. B aj.d, with, a horse and cart alongside him, with the wheel of the cart chained, was charged that he was drunk when he was iv charge of a horse and cart. Barton stated that he had been up all the previous night with a siqk horse, and yesterday afternoon he delivered a load of fruit in Franklin Road."Feeling tired after being up all night he went into a dairy and had a couple of glasses o,f milk, then, eat down on the steps and went to sleep from exhaustion. He admitted that he had had one or two drinks during the morning, but he maintained that it was the want of sleep and not the two drinks of milk or the other "one or two" that was responsible: for his condition. He was fined 10/. SOIJCITOB'S TRUST AUDITS. Two solicitors, E. C. Beale and A. G. Pilkington, were required to explain before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., to-day ■why, .being solicitors in practice in Auckland during the year ending 31st March last, they had not sent in an audit certificate of their trust accounts within three months, of the end o.f the financial year. The former stated that he had been gradually withdrawing from practice for some years, and had overlooked some very small accounts, the papers concerning which had been stored. He would require a fortnight to get the papers together and have ■complete the audit, which had already been commenced w-hen his attention had been drawn to the matter. -Mr. Selwyn Mays, for tho. Audit Department, stated, that there was no objection to. an.adjournment for a fortnight. The matter was consequently adjourned for fourteen days, as was that concerning Mr. Pilkington, who was in a similar case to his learned friend. THE ONE WHO WAS CAUGHT. Trevor O'Brien (22), a man fri uniform, admitted that he was fighting with a civilian in Victoria Street - just after 5 p.m. yesterday, but stated that ?.e was provoked. Constable Jackson, of Cambridge, who was on escort duty and in plain clothes, stated that he saw the two men fighting and arrested O'Brien, While 'a constable in uniform took the civiJian. : After "dr ing a short distance quietly, and being allowed to go-without a grip, O'Brien rah away, but witness caught him. The other constable released . his man to chase O'Brien; and the" othraganaauan away.- ■ •■ r» - ■-•«■-• ■■- p O'Brien stated that the. trouble, started in an hoteL The civilian borrowed a couple of shillinga, and-, after' a drink Or two seemed .to go,mad, and 1 started to hit a mate-jVyho was,..with witness. Witness intervened, and the civilian started on him. It was the man who got away that was-in the wrong. The explanation was backed up by the evidence of O'Brien's mate. His Wprship stated that the matter probably started as stated, but O'Brien went rather further than he was entitled to. He -would 'Ire convicted' and ■'• discharged. THE KAWAU ISLAND CASE. George Herbert Mann, proprietor of The Mansion boardinghouse, • Kawau Island, was charged on , four informations that on January 5, 6 ..and..- 7 he sold' beer to two: -men, without.dicing licensed to sell beer.- ' ..-"■ * Mr. J. R. Reed, X.C, entered a plea of "guilty." Sub-Injector MeHveney. stated that on January 5 two~-constables-. :in ■ plain clothes-wenj; to Kawau,, and obtained the liquor mentioned. Two days later two other constables executed a search warrant, and. got a. quantity of liquor there, uieiudjng an. J&gajton ,sask. of ale and 59 bottles, of beer, Ijx support of the suggestion • that. defendant obtained large quantities of liquor) it might be mentioned that •within the last two or three months he fiad obtained _135 gallons of .liquor, including 109 gallons of jjeer, fr,pm one .wholesale firm alone. The people who frequented the boardinghouse at this time of the year were of the better class, but there could be no doubt that a considerable trade in liquor was done. Mr. Reed stated that at the hoard-ing-house there were something like 150 guests and a house staff of over twenty people, in-addition to the defendant's family and friends..,-It was true that there was a certain amount of liquor there, but a considerable proi: portion of it was accounted for the fact that 'beer was put on the table for two meals a day for the staff, and a certain number of boarders obtained their supplies through defendant, who obtained it for them from the wholesale merchants, and consequently:.what appeared to t>e an abnormal amount of liquor went into his account. The ■house, however, iwas excellently conr ducted, and there was do undue drinking, or signs ol drunkenness there. -The constables had. on two occasions asked for and been supplied with drink without payment, and.when they.asked, a third time the defendant, who .coujd not continue to . supply, them with liquor for nothing, charged them sikr pence apiece for'two 'pint bottles, bo ihat he made practically; no profit pn ;he transaction;' Two witnesses .Of high . standing stated that they'had stayed ai; ;T the Mansion House, and 'had i ouiid it excek lently conducted'"in every 4 . Tvith* out' any sign of excessive '.drinking or drrmEehness.' '" "'','" 'His' Worship stated t&oT'ifc defendant's fayour t}mf ihe place'wae welt conducted, and that the liquor was apparently kept more as a convenience•fof ioarders than for profit.' Still it ■was an ■updpubted breach of Act, and"defendant.would be fined arid ;28/ca§ts/ '-_- 'J;- . ■™ fi- ; « (^onjel jjo?: Aftbref, who -ctn Deffimtef 2nd tried to iboard 'ft 'tranir' car in MI, waV victed arid :.ij)r4ef«i i9--psy>y)/ costs •■for attempting fo fepj*rd- c car -vjlilfr■%*«?'' ia motion. -'■■- -■• '■"■< ;■■.."-': Alfred Ghappell i^t), . '^nd^Hgsry" jjpr'' bert Wateon (3i)y-pn'charges-of -rag-' ranby, were remaSdM r bail being fixed at one' Surety'"6f £50j*br two of £25. ... ■ •--■ • y; i': : ':^"~ri,.

KEPT FOB SERVICE. . 'Didn't you enlist, Ijh,e. other day?" inquired his Worship when Daniel South (35) appeared on, chsirgee of being found iij Randolph "and using , obscene language. '.j '""-, So\liH produced a. 'dckiument whicii showed that he had been accepted for .military service, and was called on to report, "himself at the Drill Hall on Monday 'jnorning. At the suggestion of the SubInspector South was demanded to appear on Monday, with a proviso that he should "be handed over to the militaryauthorities at due time on Monday.