POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S_VL)DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders forfeited nail, and two were fined 5/ apiece. Another first offender who came to town yesterday to pay a fine of i-i odd and got drunk instead was arrested when drunk, having spent part oi c iv liquor. He agreed to leave £3 of his cash as part payment for the original fine, and was convicted and discharged for the drunkenness on making a promise-to get back to work and to pay off the rest of his fine within a week. Samuel Walker (53), who had a week, ago been found by night among inflammable material in a shed at the Epsom Home of tbe Salvation Army, being then j under the influence of drink, although be was prohibited, was stated, to be habitually addicted to drink. On he .was committed to Rotoroa Island fqv tWelveTnOirths.- ■'" --. '-*' AT THE LAST MINUTE. James Kirrane (24). admitted that he was the father of -the -unborn illegitimate child of a girl of nineteen years. Sub-Inspector McHveney stated that about 8 p.m. last night the girl, who was an orphan, called on him to enlist assist-. ance. She stated that she had no means and was in trouble to a young man who had started arrangements to marry her, but bad dropped tbe proceedings, andi signed""on as a trimmer on. the s.s. Leitrim. . She said he had brought her what he told her was an order on his wages | for £1 a week, but "when she took the alleged order to the ship's agents she found it contained nothing more than his name, and she became, aware, for the, first time that hfe was hound for London. -As the ship was then in' the! 6tream the girl went to.the-police-ior as- : sistancc, .with the result that by prompt action they were able to. have defendant arrested. It was a case in -which security should be asked that defendant would comply with any future order for payment with respect to the cbild._ __H_c had a brother in Auckland who could assist him in that respect. Kirrane was adjudged father of the unborn child, and ordered to find a surety for £100 that he would coroply with any maintenance order that might, be made. Arrangements were made for the girl to b e looked after in the meantime. A THING PEOPLE MUST KNOW. Mabel Peterson was charged that on July 22 she signed a receipt for £2 received from F. 'Diamond and stamped it insufficiently. Sub-Inspector McHveney said that defendant was a boardihg-ouse-keeper. and she and a boarder were hawing an altercation respecting, an amoont due iof board when Sergeant Matthews was called in. The receipt was produced in the course of the argument as to the amount' owing, and was found to be stamped with only a penny stamp instead of with a twopenny stamp. Consequently the sergeant took possession of the' receipt. It was stated on behalf of defendant ■that she had been in the boardingbouse only since the end of May, and had had no previous business. experience, consequently she was ignorant of the fact that receipts for £2 or more required twopenny stamps. The circumstances. it was said, were that the boarder to whom the Teceipt was given knew that there should v have been two penny stamps on the receipt, and said nothing about it at the time. But in the course of the following week he broke a pane of glass that cost 12/6 to replace, and when he was billed for the 12/6 as well as board, the following week, he refused to pay it and held the matter of the insufficiently stamped receipt up as a means- by which he would "get even" if the payment were insisted on. " After interrogating defendant, his Worship stated that he was satisfied feat the woman had erred- in ignorance He could, he said, take.no. cognisance -of the boarders action. Defendant would he fined 20/ and 15/ costs. MISCELLANEOUS. Percy Bell, for driving on the wrong side of Mount Eden Road, wm fined _/ and ,/ costs. Edward Coppine, for le_vlng a milk-cart and horse unattended on the street without having chained the wheel of the cart, was fined 5/ and 7/ costs. ' ' Kakswkau Baora, fo ri _ws_ring liquor when he was prohibited- was fiied 20/ and i/ costs. ' Anthony Claude Gumm f27), charired thk* oaApril 6, m_,___ f o^d'a S. -or i£B Htf and _tt«red iT t__Te