POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 64, 15 March 1916, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, &!_.)> V DRUNKENNESS. An old woman of 83 yean, who had got away from the Costley Home and been found drunk in Khyber.Pats Rb»l77 was convicted and discharged. Harry Barstow (77),' who, though prohibited,^made his third- appearand; witW six months for drunkenness, and the 169 th of his career, was stated t«' be practically destitute rand beyond ■ -work. As the old man was difficult to control in the ordinary home, it.wis decided to send him to Rotoroa Island .. for two years. '" MISCELLANEOUS. Francis Ernest Ross, for leaving a motor car in Symonds Street after innset without lights, was fined 5/ and 7/.■;■■, costs. vV- t BEHIN3 THE UlttFOßll. William Love appeared in a khaki.V 1 uniform with a Red Cross ' bailge to ■.- answer an old charge that in June, 1914, ,-■■, !he received suras amounting to £18 19/7 |on terms requiring him to pay it to his - employer, Thomas Hosking, and that-h, had failed to account for it. j Chief-Detective McMahon stated that in June, 1914, Love was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on eoa--1 dition that he repaid the money by in- . stalments. He had paid up some of it, I but when there remained . about ■ $ owing he enlisted without informing the police or making provision for the pay-;' I ment of the balance of the money. When he had been located at the Tanherenikau Camp he sheltered, himself-;.' behind the old soldier trick of<;MFW||| that he was under Imperial "jnrisdietioa and not amenable to the civil l»f*. He*:. ever, his conduct in camp"was tf. ..•■ parently not satisfactory, and he wardered himself liable to eourt-m»rtiil. with the result that the. military authorities handed him over eventually to the police, with the informatfon that no doubt the court-martial proceedings would be abandoned when he had been dealt with by the police. His Worship: He is dU__arg*M»» the Forces then? Mr. McMahon: I can't say that, yW* Worship. '. j In reply to a question .by' lis WW* ship, Love said he had been cqnfiW^V ,to barracks for three weeks f*7 cause he had broken bounds for a daft and that the court-martial <was ovtr.» matter of having refused to do certain fatigue duty during his confinement. He added that he had mentioned hi» *"'.' listment to a detective,. but that _ M.; 'could not then pay anything7further ; off the money taken, because 'he "J getting only five shillings a day, W" ■had a wife and two children to provide i for. His Worship commented on the.fs" .. that. Love had been already gi m V nearly two years in which to malts r* - stitution, and a matter of 2/ or 3/ » .-; week would have wiped the whole thai off. In view of the fact that he Hsd* wife and family to keep he woiild W put again on probation, "but the terms , : would be very much more strict *■■ V time. He would be convicted and $Vv on probation for two years under the supervision of the Probation offiC* r ' : , and a condition of probation would !>•:; that lie should pay the balance of thS;; mdney within three months. . ■ Respecting the unifofm his Worship - : ordered that Love should be kept in; custody pending inquiries at tbe , Defence Office as to his discharge. V»°. objection would he made to .is goinjfj,. away with the Forces if he -iade »».V allotment order on his wage "for tlrt;7 payment of the money he owed: unW