POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 166, 13 July 1918, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. Wjrcrn. Wilson, S.M.). DRUNKENNESS. Three first offenders were fined 5/ apiece, and one forfeited bail. Jeremiah O'Reilly (49), who had got drunk when prohibited, had been canplrt drunk twice previously in the last six months, and ■he -was "warned that a continuance of his course would take him to Rotoroa Island; his course for a dry spot was shifted mean-time by a sentence of 14 days' imprisonment." ALMOST UtKE A HOME. Herbert Thomas Porte.ous (31) admitted that on June 6 he obtained £5 from W. H. Luxford by faisc pretences. Portions had 4>een only two days out of jraol after six ■montits' imprisonment for false pretences at Kotorua, when he paseod a valueless cheque for £5 with the. licensee of the Albion Hotel. His history since 1913 showed that the man had been convicted of theft and forgery, and then for a series of false pretences, with Hie result .that he was 'barely out of gaol, after a eentence, when he was caught again at -the game and sent back afrain, almost the whole of the past three years .having- been spent in durance. Accused, who had nothing to say, was setrtenred to three years' reformatory detention. REMANDED. George Sydney Sankey (28), on a charge that on June 1, at Winangaret, he, .stole two nrasthead lights, valued £3, the property of John Solemn, was remanded to appear at W'hang-a-rei next Saturday.