POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 131, 3 June 1919, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

» (Before Messrs. J. W. Coleman and X. Christian, J.P.'s.) GOT HIS NIGHT'S LODGING. Charles Arthur Hewer (44), stated that he had no . recollection of having used -obscene language in Wellesley Street. He had gone to the People's Palace looking for a bed, but objection was taken to the fact that he had bad some drink, with the result that he became abusive, and used the bad language in the course of "telling off" the manager. A passing policeman found him lodging for the night. Accused, who apologised to the manager for what he had said, was lined -3, in default a month's imprisonment. PENALTY OF BUTTING IN. William Reid (47) and Hori Roera (35) admitted having been .guilty of threatening behaviour in the 'bar of the Waitemata Hotel yesterday; while Sinclair Gordon Wilson (-1), in connection with the same incident, was charged with having obstructed a constable in the execution of his duty. The circumstances stated were that Reid and Roera fell to fighting in the bar, and when a constable was called Wilson, who had been having a drink with the Maori, tried to drag him away from the clutches of the law, and to incite others to help him. Eventually the pugilists were taken in a taxi to the lock-up, where Wilson re-appeared in another taxi to continue his efforts at retrieving on the part of the native, and he was promptly made the subject of a charge for his part in obstructing the arrest. Reid and Roera were fined 20/ apiece, and Wilson was fined 40/ and 07 costs. VARIOUS FORMS OF GLASS. Agnes Ingestre (52) admitted having ■been drunk, liaving broken a couple of dozen panes of glass at Marion Wright's house in Nelson Street, and having assaulted the owner of the house. She had gone to the house under the influence of liquor yesterday afternoon, and became excited in an , altercation, finishing the argument by taking off one of her boots and smashing a dozen panes of glass, and then knocking out another dozen' panes with a brick. Mrs. Wright, in trying to save the windows, was struck on the breast. Accused stated that she had got excited because some other woman whom she didn't know had hit her with a hammer. Her list showed that she was addicted to drink, and also to windowbreaking, when she was drunk, evidently having objection to glass in any form other than as a container of drink. She was fined £5, iv default a month's imprisonment. MISCELLANEOUS. Two first offenders for drunkenness forfeited bail.