POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 20, 23 January 1920, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. E. Wilson, SM£s OBSCENE I-AjrGrrACrE. Ada Warner (43) said she had no recollection of having used obscene language in Yelverton Terrace on January 22, when the charge was pref erred. Constable Meiklejohn, however, gave evidence of the language having been used in front of women and children, and. ehe was ordered to pay a fine of £5, in default a month's imprisonment. UNLUCKY SHOUT CUT. A charge of being found by night fl« legally on private premises in Karangahape Road on, Sunday wag preferred against Victor Hy. Thomas (23), Joseph. Kessler (29), and* Frederick Braithwaite (28). The arresting constable's storj; was that he noticed three men get out of a motor car about half-past ten on Sunday night and go along the street. A little later he met the three accused coming out of a right-of-way on the premises of the Beehive fruit mart, and in reply to a question about their business there they replied that they had gone there to keep an appointment, but had found that the appointment was off as they were behind time. In consequence of a gate off the right of •way being unlocked, the constable invited them to the police station, bat two of them ran away and were got later. Subsequent inquiries elicited that they did "have an appointment on premises not connected with the ""frnit mart, and which might be reached in an acrobatifl fashion from the right of way at thd side of the shop.

Mr. Meredith submitted tKaE it -wsd obvious that the men were not on the premises with f elloniocs intent, and lad merely been indiscreet in using the Iruifc shop for getting to their objective. His Worship agreed, and, dismissedrOw} charges. y \j MISCEIXASTEOtrS. "■ Quong Sing, on a charge of dilviug"g horse and cart on the wrong side of Khyber Pass Road, was fined 10/ and costs. One first offender forfeited biij. and one was convicted and " STJBPBISED AKJ> SUBT." George Arthur Thompson (36) pfeadedl not guilty to a charge oi stealing n. ooat. valued at £3, and a iia-t, valued at 3/, on January 22 last, the yruyerty of Percy Alexander Bellve. The bxtitxx, gave evidence to the effect -thai- he was employed at the Town Hall, and bed left his coat and hat in a locker in the basement. When he came back c. few. minutes later he found them rouseing, and caw accused wearing them ootsife He followed *""> and gave Mm in charge of a constable. Accused saidie had mnb a man who offered Mm a jab. The latter then remarked that accused wanted; another coat, and took *"m to the Town giving a cost and lust Tmhiojuij on a peg. "We -parted outside, and. I went over to get and "«rae accosted by a constable. I was eurprised and hart," he added, in an aggrieved tone. In reply to questions from Sub-Inspector WoUnaan, as "to where lie had "been epending Iris nights, he said he had been sleeping , hero and there as he had been on odd jobs. He was remanded for a vecfe to enable further inquiries to be made. — .... MADE A HIT.

James Alexander TTaktane Stevenson (30), for Thorn. Mr. A. Moody appeared, was charged' with assaulting Thptwm Woodhouse by catching hold of her arm in the street. The latter gave evidence to the effect that she "iiad arrived with her uncle from JPapalmra, and proceeded from the railway station up Queen Street. Opposite the Warerley Hotel he caught her 4>v the Stand. She pulled away from him, and U>ey crossed, •to the other side of the street, the man following them on the opposite side of the street' At His Majesty's Theatre" the man crossed over, and followed behind, them as far as Wellesley Street, There they complained to a- constable. Evidence was given toy £he uncle to the effect that the man appeared to be imlf drunk. The police evidence was to the effect that accused appeared sober. Ac cused in evidence denied having cangM; complainant by the hand. He may bsve bumped her in the street, and may have touched her hand, as was quite possible fti the crowd. He bad certainly, not followed her, as he had never seen heir before, and had merely teen '°" TI "J the street.

His Worship said lie fnonght CJife a thing which frequently occurred in H street where there was a cf osd, aot&dis* missed the information. i