POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 40, 16 February 1920, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before. Mr. ,T. E. Wilson, S.M.j DRUNKENNESS. .John Thomas 154), lor a -econd recent offene-e, was lined 10/, in default ->S hours' imprisonment; and John Robertson Mathieson (3*2), who made his tMrd appearance within the six montlis, registered a vow not to do it again, and hewas fined 20/, in default three days', in order to remind him of the gjod resolu-| tion. Tiiree first offenders forfeited; bail, nnd another, who hail b;*cn for a week on medical treatment at the gaol,: ! had to pay 22/0 costs. Tete Tarapa (.V2), for being drunk when he was tlie subject of a Maori pro-, hibition order —an order which lasts' unt.l officially cancelled by a magistrate, was fined 40/. | .lames Edgar Steere illl), who had used obscene language when under the inlluence of elrink, anel had broken his prohibition order by having the drink, was sentenced to fourteen day,' hard labour. THE WRONG HOUSE. George Gore got caught drunk aa the ' result ol having got inio the wrong! house at -Mount Albert yesterday. When a lady and her daughter pot home from church they found a strange man blissfully sleeping a drunken sieep in their bed, anel pot a constable to wake him up. He explained that he lived a little way down the street, and must have got into the wrong house by mistake, after having had three bottles of whisky down town. After he had been locked up it was found that bis home was really but a few doors a.vay. Gore was lined 20 . TO MAKE HIM REMEMBER. ■ Faced with a charge that on Saturday afternoon he was drunk in Grey Street, and had struck a waitress in a restaurant where he went to eat, Thomas Brcnnan (47). said lie didn't remember. It was stated that after having had a meal, Brennan refused to pay, anei when the waitress insisted on getting the money, he slapped her face with his open hand. Brennan was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. MISCELLANEOUS. ! John Ere Ramsay 144), charged with unlawful carnal knowledge at Ngaruawahia, was remanded till Friday, bail being allowed in one surety of ±lioo. George Postlewaith (16), for driving a horse when it was suffering from painful girth galls, had to pay 2.y costs, a charge apiinst the lad's employer for j causing the horse to be worked when it j was so suffering was not sustained in the evidence.