POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 282, 27 November 1919, Page 9

POLICE COURT.

———. — m (Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) CLEARED THE KITCHEN. Charles Sullivan (46), who had made a sudden appearance and a sensation in the kitchen of a private hospital about half-past six yesterday evening, was charged with drunkenness and with having assaulted a nurse. The circumstances were that the man suddenly appeared, in a drunken condition, in the kitchen of the hospital, I causing a scurry by the cook and the housemaid to one of the nurses. The latter persuaded the man to go out, and was advising him to go on 'to the general | hospital because he said he wanted attenI tion, when he wrapped his hat round his hand and punched her in the face. ■ She at once went back into the house and rang up -the police, with *Bhe result 'that the answering constable,- after a search, found the man in the lavatory of I the public hospital, along the street a little. Sullivan, who had a big bunch of preIvious convictions, mostly for drunken|ness, but including theft, vagrancy and assault, said he could not explain why Ihe went into the kibeben, and he was | fined 50/ for getting drunk when prohibited, and sentenced to 14 days' hard labour for striking tbe nurse. MISCELLANEOUS. One first offender for drunkenness forfeited bail, and one was fined 5/. Bruce Cunningham was fined 20/ and 9/ costs for driving an unlicensed wagon. For driving on the wrong side oi the rda<l in Anzac Avenue, Wm. Lawrence, Albert Webber, Ernest Boucher and James Hayden were fined each 5/ and 7/ costs while Richard Austin and Sidney Adland had to pay 7/ costs apiece. Cecil Brown and Bert McCowan. for cycling on the i footpath in Manukau Road, were fined !5/ and 7/ costls apiece. Alfred W. Bryant for using a van for hire without 'having it licensed, was fined 40/ and 9/ costs. ; Mavis Molloy was merely convicted and ordered to pay costs for breaking her prohibition order, it being said on her behalf that the old one had lapsed and just been renewed, and further, that she had just been married. Caught in the act of driving various vehicles along the wrong side of the road, Andrew Jer*en, who had been found at the same game before, was fined £1 with 9/ costs, William Harrison, was mulcted of 14/, Sefton Beaver had to pay the same, and Roy Twing and John Roberts had to part tip 19/ each in fines and costs. John Hultquist, of the Salvation Army, cut a corner withh is bike when on an errand of mercy in Parnell, and he was ordered to pay costls of the prosecution, while Gordon Harris, a motor cyclist, was arraigned and fined 10/ with* costs for riding too fast in Queen Street one Friday night. Riding on the footpath cost Archie McLeod, a lad. fourteen shillings. A Hindu who called himself Dhia Bhana explained in broken English that) he drove a horse and cart too fa-st round a corner because the horse was a trotter, and another man had trained him so well that he himself could not hold him m. He was caucht for 14/. and another Hindu. Jerom Bhagvon. was mulcted of ,-fine same amount for letting his horse "anrlr-r alone Grey Street: and William Verra-n had to pay a bill of 16/ for the i same offence at Takapuna.