POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 244, 12 October 1917, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender, who had been found in Karangahape Road last night with an injured knee, and had been removed to the hospital, was reman .ed for a week. JUST HIS USUAL. Thomas Massicks (54) admitted that yesterday he stole a coat, valued of, the property of Wm. Thomas. He had gone into a second-hand shop in Karangahape Road yesterday afternoon, and stolen a coat on finding that the dealer was not in the shop. As he was going- out, the dealer entered the shop from the back, and, sensing something wrong, went for a constable, who found .lassicks in a near-by hotel, drinking a pint of beer, and .with the stolen coat in his possession. His Worship remarked that there were 26 previous convictions for dishonesty against .lassicks, and sentenced the man to three months' hard labour. ■WANTED TO STAY HOME. "An out-and-out ehirker," was the description applied to Frederick Wilson (33), who admitted that he had failed to enrol as a reservist for military service. Senior Sergeant McNamara stated that Wilson was a single man, who had never enrolled, and when the police maae their round-up about three months ago he was netted, but got out by stating that he was .enrolling, and promising to bring along his papers. He cleared out, but was caught again yesterday, when he returned to town, and after stating a number of lies, he eventually owned up that he had never enrolled. He would sooner go to gaol, he said, than go to the war and return with only one leg. "In short," conceded the senior sergeant, "he wants to go to gaol to dodge bullets." When asked what he had to say, Wilson laconically replied: "Xothinsr."* His Worship remarked that the ■ matter of shirking was now more serious since all the First Division men had been called up. Lots of people—perhar-s one man in ten—had no burning desire to go, but they went because'it was their duty, and it was pleasing to note that there had been very few cases of shirking in Auckland. Defendant would be sentenced to three months' imprison-1 ment and the military authorities could' have him if they wanted him sooner. MISCELLANEOUS. Ma.-y Ellen Cantell (36), for loitering) in Queen Street for the purposes of! prostitution, was convicted and ordered j to come up for sentence when called on a condition being that she should go to the Salvation Army Home and obey the directions of the authorities there James Davern (19), for breaking the terms of his probation, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence w-hen called on.