POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 73, 26 March 1919, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

Mr. J. E. Wilson, DRUNKENNESS. Two -first offenders forfeited bail, and >; two were convicted and discharged. | Thomas Tucker (34). who had been;' caught drunk three times with/n the last ; month, was fined 40/; and William Fer- ! g-uoon (33), who , was also up for the - third time recently, was fined 20/. Joseph - Sullivan (42), who (had got drunk when prohibited, was fined 40/, in default seven days' imprisonment. "A FEW DAYS," AND THEK SOME. Mirke Devieich, a Dalmatian, admitted - that being an alien he changed his place of abode without notifying the registration officer within 14 days. He left his ~ : employment at Otorohanga, in November ' _ and came to Auckland, where he had re«.'- :- mained ever since. It was not until to-' 'i wards the end of February tha* lie re* - ported liis change of address, then stating he had been only a few days in -.-.' town. Inquiries at Otorohanga resulted' ' in the discovery that Devieich had been away from .there nearly three months. He said he had been in ill-health, and had intended going back to Otorohanga} - after receiving treatment. Defendant was fined 20/, and 9/ cost*» THE REMUERA JUMP. F. W. Chadwick was charged tnafc ct t - Remuera on February 2 he al"ghted front a railway .train when it was in motion. ' Evidence was given that on account of the growth of the practice of jumping from the inward express train when it slowed " up in taking the steep grade known *».„. the Reinuera Hill, .the Railway Depart* -■- meat had recently taken action to watch for persons who made this a jumping-otf -':-. place. Several persons had been caught ; : and prosecuted, and there had been an immediate decline in the practice. The ;. - defendant had jumped from the train, •■ .- witness stated, when it was going at * "' speed of between tan and fifteen mile* an hour. The defendant himself ad* i mitted jumping- from the train, but «o*»; ■: sidered it was going very slowly at the" ?J time. Defendant -was fined 20/j and lM costs. A MfEGIXCTED EDUCATION. I. Eliberto Liguera (27), a Peruvian, -was * charged that being an alien and a Iβ* : stricted immigrant be unlawfully landed ; in New Zealand. The circumstance*" :J;stated were that Liguera had been a ■-''■ fireman on the s.s. Opihi, and had failed -. to pass the education teet, but was per> mitted, with another illiterate Peruvian fireman, to stay over in Auckland for ay %. day in order to join anotner oif e&» : .£> company's ships. The other man joined.T-i the ship, but Liguera disappeared, and ■.'-■ was not found until some time later* ; leaving the shipping company liable u> ; a fine of £100. He turned up a few days : : ago, and was arrested. , '"■■' The shipping company having made farrangements to ship the man away fi«m 'New Zealand within a >.w days, the man ■'-' •wjas convicted and ordered to be kept in -- custody until he. was shipped away. MISCELLANEOUS. SelWyn Steele, for motoring at mere i.' than six miles an hour over a Queen Street intersection, was fined. 10s, and - 13/ costs. R. -L. Ren wick, for failing to '. sound his "horn when approaching intersection of Queen and Wakefield " Streets by motor,,was fined 5/, and "tifesg , costs. Alfred Dare, for driving on the -S wrong- side of Newton Road, was jffiwpfß 10/, and 9/ coste.