POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

. ! i Before Me*?, rs. D. B. Wallace, T. E. Whitton and A. Walsh, J.P.s) ! | | A FOOT-LOOSE YOUTH. ! James Coffin fll.l admitted that on March 2 he stoic four plugs of to'oaccc. two blankets and a fireman's sweat rag, value 1!V10, the property of Jack Stubbs. It was stated that Coffin was an orphan bop", who iiad put in a good deal of time of recent months employed on the small coastal boats sailing out of Auckland. ! Early this month, when he wits unat--1 tached. he went aboard on e of the boats on which he had been previously employed, and stole the articles mentioned ' from the firemen's quarters. The tobacco he .aye away and the blankets he sold, before pushing into the country for work. He was eventually located, I trnd arrested at Papakurs some * daws after the theft. He was convicted and sentenced to a | month's imprisonment, pending arraneements being made on the Bench's raeo'iflmendation to have him transferred to an industrial school. FIGHTING IN THE STHEET.

Tohn Wm. Hughes (49) and Arthur Wm. Cashmore (l!2i were charged with eommittini. a breach of the peace in St. Mary's Road, Ponsonby, oa Wednesday evening. Evidence was jiiven that the two men were fighting near the Three [.amps corner at Ponsonby shortly after o p-n. on Wednesday, when a constable came along. A man named Christmas «*as present at the time. Christmas said that he had brought the two men I

together in consequence of a remark by Cashmore, and then Hughes, denied«the truth of the statement made by Cashmore and struck Cashmore; starting the fight Cashmore denied that he had made - the remark. Hughes admitted having struck Cashmore because he was in. onsed by a scandalous statement which had been imputed to Cashmore. and which, Hughes said, had caused trouble between himself and his wife. Both accused were convicted and bound over, each in a bond of £20, to keep the peace for six months. |