POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 17 July 1916, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr F. V. Frazer, SJSd.)' * > N DRUNKENNESS. ' .. ■ A female first offender, who wa».?ia '■ \ a very shaky condition, was remaAdid for a week's medical'treatment. Another woman forfeited bail, as also did a mate '■first"; while yet another of those.who.;; - made their initial appearance' "ih "the .■■•'.•; drunks' dock, having been "in" eince Saturday, was convicted and discharged. - Herbert Gandy (49), who haddoni.it three times in the last sis months, aqd was now a soldier on final leave, ./vris prohibited and discharged. g£ 'Michael Quinlivan (47), who had-betn considerably knocked about when he.wae found drunk in Customs Street a'week.. ago, and had had to pay 23/G for. repajh to hie head, had a bill of 10/ for expenses under medical treatment at the gaol.presented to him. He discharged the bin, and was himself discharged. ""Hardy'A. Griffiths (38), for-getting.. \ drunk when prohibited, was fined 20/, in defaujt three days'; and David B. Browne (46), for being drunk when : ia charge of a horse and cart, had to p»y 20/. : ~ .:■ TWOPENCE VR HIS TREASUBT.

James Edgar Steere (45)', who had been . found about 1 o'clock this morning sleeping in a waiting shed on the.wharf, admitted that he had gone theTe without authority. \ Constable Atkinson stated tlie ■ man had been sleeping out at the wharf and the fish-curing sheds for a week past He had only twopence in cash on him. . when arrested. ~ c ._ v - ."" Steere stated that he had been fselin'g very queer lately, and had, he thought, I * touch of pleurisy. He admitted he hid been drinking a bit, arid staying-at tlie . Salvation Army Home, but- had "lately, been refused admittance ; there. . *;•* Accused was remanded for a week for . a medical overhaul. • •' • v y-' *"S ; POPULAR WITH THE WOMEN. Albert Poole (27), a soldier, admitted . that last. Monday night he iafsaulted Esther Harwood by hitting;.ner ; on ; t]je v | head with a bottle. -■ ■~ ,-v : :C' Senior-Sergeant Rutledge stated-stiiit,; Poole .-was a soldier, who had' , overstayed' his leave for fifteen days!. .Oh. Monday night last, -when under the influencerjf liquor, he went to a house.in.Gre'enwobd, Street, Eden Terrace, where there weije two women. The women were also • under the influence., and .an.'argument. occurred, when Poole. hit' the woman . Harwood on-the bead with a small: bottle of beer. She -was not seriously hurt, but she complained to a policemen, and Poole was are'rested. The r -women did not now wish to persevere-with" the complaint. "-''- .*'.';-■. Poole said tliat he met one •of r*t|e women on the day his leave'was up, tJA he was going 'back to camp, and ;slie Invited him her house.. He got. drunk, there, and had also met the .woman.Harwood, who took beer there, the result ' being that he • overstayed his leave-ias?* j result of drinking. Leet Monday-night he told the -women be was going ■?**?■; back to camp, and they •wanted hjjn to stay. He intended to frighten thtwomja into letting him away by nourishing i.the bottle, and had struck one of theip-.m-intentionally hard. ■ , •,"■.■ In view of the fact that Poole.l** •.. been in custody for a .on: remand, . he was merely convicted and ordered'to.■■•'.-. come-up for sentence -when called" upon. TO EVADE RESPOHSIBIUTIBB.

John Percival Grey (32). admitted ttat he liaa neglected to comply witV.w order for the support of his' wife.V:. '[i : -"■ Senior-SergeaJit Kutledge stated, -that the man, who appeared,in khakij«iform, had been arrested at Featherjton . camp, where he went under- the-ntme. el Donald McGregor. The. Trife,- who haa obtained a separation order from' Wr husband on the gTound of; •- was now in a dying; condition. - > y- . The Probation Officer .(Rey.,.;f.. Jeffreys) eta-t«d that the of the worst he had come.acrpss.' l A™r" the separation order was granted-Grfy paid £8 5/. and then stopped'p4yi?e.i«i- :. and the wife and children / bad vjo struggle along with assistance M'Mm mother and of the Charitable The wife became very ill,'-and could *JO : no work, and;from the-hospital;shekel ;i to be Sent to Costley Home, ' was now dying.: .At..Easter time* We. wife's mother saw Grey in the street. r >a uniform, and'when she went'taepeakje him he. bolted, and was not «een>since till his arrest. In May lastheeenti.* letter to his wife on Y.M.CA. paper, afl.4

dated the letter as if he. wer" .on the troopship Mokoia. to lead his wife>;to:«lieve that he had left Kew Zealand. A : Grey protested that he had v seyera! , times'sent money to his •>:■ chap, ,, and that "the letter headed/**Mokoia was- written because he .didn-t- , want the police to know w-hereChe-«•««•. He hadn't sent money from the; camp, he-said, because he had been sick. ,_ s , Penior-Sergeant Rntledsc. remarkedthat the information bad been .commit!'cated to him that Grey was. wanted.- JJP a court-martial at the camp, after toe ; Court had finished with him. on-a-DlM-ter of a false declaration' c'tinceriirafc sfck ,pay. ' : ■■■--■■■>' ! J^! His Worship- remarked thftt haviour as a husband was a' had »S,f'. ronld well be. and. sentenced .t'.:e manjO . six months' imprisonment. -\'--.-,-. MISCELLANEOUS. " Alexander McPhail-(31). ; on;asch»KC . of carnal knowledge at Taurauga, *i» remanded for■ a . ■ , -'•..- ; - '■<<■' Canute W. J. Larsen (33). on ;a fhWi* of having disobeyed an order: fpr.AW. , maintenance of his wife, was" remanded for a week. — ■ '""!'■; "