POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1917, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.) DRTTNKENNES!-. Seven names appeared on the inebriates' list. Three first offenders forfeited 5/- bail, one was allowed to go with the payment of his cab fare, and another, who came under the "statutory" heading, was fined the amount of his bail, £1. Arthur Bryant, who was remanded for medical treatment from Mercer a week ago, was remanded for another week, being still unable to appear. Henry Sampson, charged with drunkenness and breaking his prohibition order, was convicted and discharged, partly in consideration of the fact that .he was a returned soldier. TO AVOID NOTICE. Edward Riley, alias O'Brien, who had been found sleeping out in a shed at the back of a boardinghouse in Victoria Street, although he had £1S 13/5 in his pocket at the time. ,w_s stated to have told the police that he had got drunk and could not get a bed, preferring the shed as a refuge from the police. He had a. list, and one previous conviction for the same offence. He was given three days' hard labour. AWAY FOR AWHILE. Nellie Mills, an old offender, was charged that she was an idle and disorderly person, and habitually consorted with reputed prostitutes. She had nothing to say, but asked for a chance to get away to the country, but the magistrate, not being convinced of her genuine desire for a rural life, sentenced her to three months' hard labour. GIRL'S ALLEGED THEFT. A girl of IS, named Christina Kara McDonald was charged. with stealing £35 in notes and a cheque for £12 16/* from the person of John Tomason. Tomason. a farm labourer, stated that he had known the girl for about twelve months. On February 28 he went for a walk with her in Western Park, and they stood together for some time under a tree, the girl's arm being round his waist under his coat. He had a roll consisting of £35 in notes and a cheque in his hip pocket. After they had parted he found that the money had gone, and he then remembered that he had seen the girl stooping, and had heard her garter snap as if she had placed something beneath it. Constable Devereaux stated that when he apprehended the girl she produced notes of the value mentioned, and stated that she had thrown away the cheque. She afterwards made a written statement (produced). The accused, who was represented by Mr. R. A. Singer, reserved her defence, and was committed for trial, bail being allowed in one surety of £25. _-ISCEEZ_ANEOUS. George Macdonald Campbell pleaded that he was drunk, and know nothing of having committed a grossly indecent act at the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets at a busy hour of the evening. Having a previous conviction for the same class of offence, he was given seven days. E. A. Thompson was charged, on the information of Inspector Alder, with cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it while it was in a lame condition. The inspector stated that the horse was so lame as to be almost crippled, and he found it necessary to get a veterinary surgeon to operate on its leg. The defendant stated that he had been working the horse for about a week, and it was only slightly lame when he put it into the wagon. He noticed that it was growing more lame, but attributed it to a corn on the foot. He was fined £2 and costs. A. Thompson, for riding a horse on a footpath at Grey Lynn, was fined 5/ and costs. Fletcher Bros*, for failing to notify the scaffolding inspector of the erection of a scaffold "over 10ft in height, were fined £1 and costs. Ernest Grant, for failing to comply with an order for the maintenance of his ■wife, the arrears being about £4. was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended provided he paid £ 1 a week, and 2/6 off the arrears.