POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

" (Before Mr. J. E. Wilson. S.M.) ■#> A LABOUR DEBATE. "He called mc a mongrel.'' stated John Mullampy, who admitted having assaulted Arthur Patehett, a trnm conductor, on Ponsonby Road on August IS. I Senior-sergeant lltNanwra stated that I Mullampy, while travelling in a tram along Ponsoriby Road to the Three Lamps, got into an argument with the conductor on Labour matters. They got heated, and when the car had reached the Three Lamps and the conductor was changing ' the trolley-poles Mullampy called him a '"scab" and struck him. Uh Worship reminded Mullampy that if the other man had provoked him he had his remedy by laying a charge against him for tlic use of lanuiKige calculated to provoke a breach of the. peace, | but it was no defence to carry the mntter to a breach of the pence. Fined 40/ '>R.nd 10/ costs. NOT BOTTLED TIP. .Tohn Bryant was charged with the use of obscene language in Albert Street. The 'evidence was to the eflVct that Bryant I worked for a bottling company and lived ]nt the Star Dining Rooms. On August | I 2-1 a constable on the street outside the I dining-rooms was attracted by the sound i lof obscene language being used in loud J tones, and he followed the stream back !to its source, which was Bryant, in one jof the rooms inside the dining-rooms. I Evidently off duty, the man had neglected I to bottle up his annoyance over some mati tcr or other, and the offensive language i I had overflowed to the street. ■ Accused was fined £5. ACCORDING TO HIS LIGHTS. Wililam Sewell, who did not appear, i was charged with driving a motor car j in Mount Eden at night with insufficient j I lights on the machine. Constable Ryan I I stated that he held up a motor car which | . was being driven by a boy, and had only j I one small sidelight. Pefendu'nt was sit- j j ting beside the boy, and when witness , j asked the boy for hi* name, defendant I directed the boy no-t to give his name. j Defendant told witness that he had the [ I motor's number, and that was enough | J for him. adding. " You fellows are too ; officious." The lad suggested that it j I would save bother if he gave his name, ! but defendant ordered him to drive on, I land witness subsequently discovered' that defendant was the owner of the car. ] and he was consequently charged with , I the breach of the by-law. I Defendant was fined £1 and 35/ costs. ' MISCELLANEOUS. I .Tames Smith (17). for the theft of I ] some lemonade and some bottles of ! j pickles, when he and other boys were ! " stranded " after being dismissed from , n small circus troupe, was put on probai tion for twelve months. j William Larder, for permitting a horse ;to wander in "Mount Eden, had to pay I 9.' eoets. For driving at night with insuliVicnt lights. Frank E. C'ooney had to pay !)/ costs. Grace E. Meli'Dowie, j for motoring too fast over a Queen j .Street intersection, was fined 20/ and! I costs. Stanley Butler was fined 10/ and I !!) /costs for cycling on a footpath at j j Mount Eden. " Michael McMahon. for I carrying more passengers in bis taxi i I than the vehicle whs licensed to carry, ' was fined 10/ and 0/ costs. * I i (iordon Spinlev, charsred with driving ] ion the wrong side of Whan Road, ad- ' j mitted that he had been on the wrong I side of the road, anil colilded with a I horse and cart, but explained that his , position was caused by the boot! of his I car falling just before the accident, and !so distracting his attention from the road. He was fined £5 and 37/ costs. |