POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 300, 17 December 1917, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Tunga Hiwi Terapa (40), who had been in custody since Saturday, was fined 5/ for a second offence. James Monaghan (37) had to pay 20/ for a second offence within six months. One first offender forfeited bail, and another was fined 5/. I TO RECRUIT ENERGY. Henry Barzey (36), who admitted that he had failed to help maintain his wife, , said the reason, wae that he could not get work. Evidence was given by Constable Beddek that the man was addicted to drink, and had a job in a brewery and another in an hotel, both of which, he failed to keep. Not only (lid be not help his' wife, but he had several times called on her for food. He appeared to have no energy for work, said the constable. This evidence was supported by a statement by the Rev. F. Jeffreys, who stated that the wife and children would be cared for if the man were given a good term away from the drink. Barzey agreed to go to Fakatoa Island, and on his own application was committed to the Island for twelve months. DID IT IN CHAMPAGNE. ■Frederick John Cox admitted that on October 22 he broke the anti-shouting regulations .and his own prohibition order at Tokatoka, and that he again broke his prohibition order in Auckland at the end of November. The circumstances were that in October a man named Morton and defendant came down the Wairoa River from Te Kopuru to Tokatoka, and there Mprtpn shouted a bottle of champagne, which he and Cox consumed. Later the publican and Morton were dealt with in the Northern AVairoa, but Cox had left the district, and when a constable was looking for him in Auckland he spotted him coming out of t'no Waitemata Hotel. Defendant's excuse was that it was a stormy night when he accepted the champagne, and that he was only "looking for a man" when he was seen coming out of the Waitemata Hotel. Cox was fined £4 and 14/ costs. CARRIED IT TOO FAR. George Jeffs (41), a Grey Lynn resident, was charged that on Saturday he assaulted a youth. John W. Macdonald. The circumstances were that Jeffs and his little hoy were in Mennie's Reserve, at Grey Lynn, when the little boy, who wae playing about, fell and cried. Jeffs considered that Macdonald had tripped the boy up, and he attacked Macdonald. Several witnesses said that Jeffs hit the youth a number of times with his fists, and two said he kicked him on the head. In any ease Maedonald was taken a little later in a fainting condition to * doctor. The witnesses stated that Macdonald did not trip the little boy at all, but that the youngster fell over "another boy. Jeffs said that he asked Macdonald why he had tripped the little hoy, and got no reply. He then smacked Macdonald with his open hand, but did not either punch or kick him. He had only elippere on at the time. Macdonald ran away, witness said, and threw stones. He had previously ha 4 occasion to talk to Macdonald, and considered him a bully among the boys. He was of opinion that ill-feeling between him and a lady resident of the neighbourhood was the cause of the trouble. He was not quite sure whether or not at the time he hit the boy he had in hia hand a key, to which a small block of wood was tied. His Worship remarked that it was a case of Jeffs losing his temper in a more or less natural cause, and then carrying the matter much too far. He would be fined £2 and £2 13/ expenses, half the fine to go to the boy. MISCELLANEOUS. Albert Bell (43), who was picked up on the Birkenhead boat this morning by Constable Beddek as a First Division reservist who had failed to notify his j change of address, was stated to "have I been drawn in the ballot, and" he was remanded for a week to find out the will of the military authorities.