POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 245, 13 October 1917, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(.Before Mr. F. A". Frazer, S.M.) DRTTNKENKTESS. Albert John Ryan (42), for using obscene language when lie was drunk in ; Grey Street, xvas lined £3, in default fourteen days. PICKED UP A POCKET-BOOK. Oscar -Mead Bull (33) admitted that on Monday he stole a pocket-book containing til. The circumstances stated l.y [senior Sergeant MeXamara were that on Monday night an old man xvho was at the brand Picture Theatre dropped his pocket-book, containing over £!> and a number of papers. A young lady noticed accused pick up the pocketbook ami go out. ami she informed the old man when he missed 1 iis book. There xvas uo reply to an advertisement for tlie pocket-book, and the old man. who bad l.c.ii informed by the young lady I .it the circumstance of the pocket-book being picked up. complained to the ! police I 'hi in-clot lies ('.instable Trotter! saw the young lady and got on accused's track, xvith the result that be was iden-! tilicl as a watersider working on the wharf, and interviewed. He owned up to having picked up the pocket-book, j and restored CS of the money, but; coitl.l not produce the pocket-book. Accused, who had nothing else against i him. xvas lined .!-'•">. and ordered to re-j fund tl that xvas missing, and to pay 1- expenses. MISCEIXAKTEOUS. Edward Day i.'l Si. a man who appeared to be somewhat xveak-minded. admitted that he had not enrolled as a reservist, and as the cicumstances I showed that he bad shown a tendency to evade registration, he xvas sentenced I to three months' imprisonment. i ! Three boys, xvho came before the Juvenile Court for theft, were admonished, an.! the case was adjourned for . three mouths, during which time the lads i would be under the eye of the Proba-! ticii Officer, whose report at the end of .the period xvill decide the question of, | whether or not a conviction should be I i entered. j