POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 141, 14 June 1917, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. E C. C'utten, S.iL v

DRUNKENNESS. I Margaret Wilkie (69), up for the i fourth time recently, 'was fined 20/, in default three days', for getting drunk when she was prohibited. Patrick Kavanagh (41), for drunkenness and committing a nuisance, was prohibited and fined £2. John Jas. Poland' (51), for getting drunk when prohibited, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, a condition

being that he should immediately get back to his job in the country.

BOMBED WITH A BEER GLASS. Frank O'Buglien (27) admitted that on Saturday week he assaulted a barman named J. T. Waters. Accused and two companions were in the bar of the Queen's Ferry Hotel on the occasion in question, and when a shilling was tendered in payment for three bottles of beer the barman, claiming another sixpence, went to take the beer away. One of the bottles was snatched by one man. and the barman started to get round under shelter of the counter to remove the man and recover the beer, while \i aters, another barman, was coming to his fellow-worker's assistance, when he 'was stopped by a beer-glass thrown, bomb fashion, by O'Buglien, which struck Waters on the eye. Police assistance was summoned, and O'Buglien was arrested. The Sub-Inspector described O'Buglien as a labourer who didn't labour very much, and his Worship sentenced the man to a mouth's hard labour. ! BEYOND HIS PRIVILEGES. ! Harold Clark admitted that he assaulted Douglas Wood, a seaman. The circumstances stated by Sub-Inspector Broberg were that last night Wood, a quartermaster on a ship at Queen's wharf, was in charge of a gangway of the ship, when Clark, the third officer, came aboard. The latter gave Wood some order and some countermanding order, which resulted in Wood doing nothing, and Clark struck him in the face. This statement was contested by Clark to the extent of his saying that lie had ordered Wood to shift the gangway so that it would not be so steep, and. that Wood did not obey. He admitted that he exceeded his" rights by striking the man. » Clark was fined £2 and 12/ costs, 10/ of the fine to go to Wood. MISAPPROPRIATION. Louis Peter Melker (21), an A.B. aboard a ship which arrived at Auckland recently, admitted that at the end of the voyage he stole a lady's neck fur (value 20/) the property oi one of the passengers. The fur was found by n customs searcher in Melker's locker, "and he stated that he had bought it in London, but When Constable Gourley canie on the scene, with knowledge that one ' of the lady passengers had lost a fur, the man confessed that he had picked i the fur up on the ship and bad put it I in his locker. i Melker, who had a good record on the ship, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, with a condition that he should be put aboard hi 6 ship-when she sailed. • (■

CARELESS RESERVISTS. ...Alfred jL.Mobbs (2S) he had changed his abode from Whanga- ! momona, near Stratford, to Devonport, without notifying the Government Statistician, but stated that he was a married man with four children, and that he had left a note of his changed address with the postmaster at vThaneamomona. He did not, however, notify

the Statistician. His Worship remarked that it was a mere matter of carelessness, and fined defendant 20/ and 7/ costs. Similar circumstances were statec in the case of Robert Roberts, (39), a motorman. who had shifted from one street to another in Auckland, and had neglected to notify until some time after the fourteen days' grace allowed. also was fined 20/ and 7/ costs. Alfred Forbes, a First Division man. who had also neglected to notify his. change of abode but who had enlisted before the matter bad bpen notified, was convicted and discharged.

MISCEI."LANEOtTS. I George Edwards, for driving a motorcar after sunset without having the taillight of the car lit so as to properly illuminate the number-plate, was fined 5/ and 7/ costs. r Charles R. Gardner i2">), on a chariie | oi the theft at Taumarunui of a gold i necklet ar.-l pendant (value £10), the property of Margaret Allen, was remanded to appear at Taumarunui next Thursday. Thos. F. Lees, for failing to clear land at Mt. Albert of noxious weeds, had to pay 33/ costs.