POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 127, 29 May 1919, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

"■•-* i(Before Mr. J. W. Pcvnton/S.M.J;"- _ - J CHANGES HEIt JOND. "" A girl of sixteen who had been for a week on remand came up for sentence on a charge of vagrancy, brought at the instance of her foster-parents, who had been unable to control her by ordinary measures. Last week she had declined to agree to go to the Salvation Army Home, but after her experiences on remand she now made a choice in favour of the Home, and she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months, on condition that she remained meanwhile at the Army Home KEPT BREAKING OUT. Rose Hunter (25) admitted that she had escaped from the custody of the Parnell Rescue Home yesterday, but denied a charge of unruly and insubordinate behaviour. The matron of the Home stated that the young woman had been found incorrigibly unruly in the Home, completely upsetting the discipline of the institution and adversely affecting the behaviour of the other girls there. She had been received in December, and bad escaped, being away two months'. Since then she had run away twice, anjl witness was afraid she could do nothing with accused. Accused was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, with a view to her transfer to the Addington Institute- i ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER. William Langley, alias McCann (25), was charged that on May 19 he stole a watch and other articles, to the value of £20, the property of Patrick Brodie; that on May 20 he stole a saddle and bridle (value £10) belonging to Charles Coleman, and a bicycle (£ls) owned by S. S. Wheeler; on May 21, a watch (£2) and 3/2 belonging to D. Stewart- He admitted all the thefts. The circumstances were that on Monday last week the accused, who said his real name was McCann, went into a 'bedroom in the Family and Naval Hotel and took a watch and a gold and a silver stud belonging to a boarder. The next day he went to the Wynyard Arms Hotel and stole a watch, and 3/2 from a bedroom there. He took a bridle and saddle from Mr. Coleman's stables, but was seen and overtaken by 1 Mr. Coleman, nho took the goods off him. Finally he stole a bicycle from outside the Technical School, and had it in hia possession when Plainclotb.es Constable O'Sullivan picked him up that day. The man, who said he had been drinking, had a bad record of theft, and he was sentenced to not more than two years' reformatory treatment. A TRICK THAT FAILED. I Emile Brinkoff, a young man, was charged that on May 10 he attempted to evade payment of hi 3 fare when travelling on a tramcar. Evidence was given that defendant was standing on the rear of a crowded tram when a ticket inspector boarded the car and accosted him for his ticket. He said he had a pass, and when asked to produce it felt through his pockets, and- finally said he must have left it in his other clothes. The inspector referred to the traffic manager, who was on the car, but neither he nor the conductor knew the defendant, who said J his name was Robinson, and that he lived lin Mount Eden Road. A constable was called, and he knew defendant, who thereupon gave his correct name and address (Bright Street), and admitted that he had no pass. The pass was "only kid stakes," he said. Defendant, whose demeanour appeared to indicate that though from Bright Street he did not live up to the name, was fined £2- and 46/- costs, in default three weeks' imprisonment. TEA AND TEARS. Charles Edward Dumper, a man who affected a clerical garb and manner, but stated his occupation as tea agent, complained that on May 10, at Devonport, he was assaulted by Ernest A. Dumper. The complainant, who took the oath impressively, stated that on May 10, in the course of his labours in the direction, of propagating the tea habit, he called at a house in Devonport, when j defendant came*up to him, pulled witI ness' hat off and threw it away. "I told j him," said the witness, "that he was a naughty boy.".. His Worship: Is he related to you?—» He is my son. His Worship: What is his age!— * Twenty-seven. Proceeding, the witness, who showed emotion, and brought the tears to hia own eyes, declared: "I am sorry to have to relate this, but he violently pushed mc into the yard, and I fell." The defendant: As you area divorced man, what right had you on the premises? Didn't you go there before and get put out after being told you were not wanted? In reply to his Worship the defendant stated the position was that complainant had been recently divorced, and he persisted in going to the house where his former wife (defendant's mother) lived with. her daughter, and making himself a nuisance. Complainant had been told Jhe wasn't wanted, and thie time defendant was asked by his sister to shift complainant, and he had taken him quietly, by the arm and put him off the'premises.' Complainant then behaved as he did in. Court, "starting to cry like a big school child." Defendant's sister corroborated this statement. She added: "He is supposed to be a minister, but ie not a minister at all; he sells tea- He is annoyed just now because of the divorce." Complainant: I went; there to sell tea. How can I carry on my business if I am treated like this ? The female witness said she wasn't asked to buy any tea. Complainant: Didn't I offer you violets?— Yes; and I refused them. Complainant: You did refuse, and broke my heart. • His Worship toft complainant that if he were warned off private t premises and didn't go, an agent of the owner was quite justified in pushing him off the premises. The charge was dismissed. MISCELLANEOUS. Jno. W. Leighton (33), on a charge of having failed to provide for his two children at Palnwrston North, was remanded to appear at Palmerstou North to-mor-row. Three first offenders for drunkenness ■were convicted and discharged, and oi»-' forfeited bail. . i