POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Issue LI, 24 May 1920, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J, E. Wilson, S.JJJ. KOWHEBE TO GO. Margaret WilHams (62) was a w oßl> who went up to Constable iJutcliffej, Queen Street and told him she could nt neither work nor lodgings, and had aa money. She was arrested forthwith aa_ charged with having no visible <&•__, «f support. With a fairly long list of vious convictions, the woman had w been discharged from Pakatoa Island and was described by the police as ©juJ utterly without nope. Nobody wequ have her or give her work, and the 6a]. vation Army could do nothing further for her. It seeme.-i that the only fcth the magistrate cou'd give was to tea* her behind the sheltering walls of llonnt Eden gaol, where she was committed for two months with hard labour. A FEW INEBRIATES. •With three previous convictions of drunkenness put up against her naaw within a short time, Ada Warner (44) _ married woman, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with." __fd labour, and John Shervinick, the nut.* boy on the steamer Chepadoe, who had "beat up" the cook the week-end before forfeited £1 bail as a second offender. The case of Norman Oscar Smith «_, brousht up afraln, and be was eon-iebd for drunkenness and remanded for sentence for a week for further medical treatment. Three first offenders all forfeited bail. A first offender who aggravated hk offence by resisting arrest was fined |J. AIV EARLY START. ' There was nothing inspiring about the record of William James Treanor, a youth of twenty, who was already know. to the police as a young drunkard. His father came along to the Court anj asked tbe magistrate to make a prohibition order against the boy, but his Worship would have none of it." *T_e hoy is under age," he told the fatter, "and it is illegal for him to be supplied with drink. You keep a close watch on him, and if you see anyone giving him drink he shall.be brought before the Court and punished." TTiis the father promised to do. The boy was. not hi good health, and Sub-inspector Woolmann said he had been twice taken to.the hospital, while the father said he was just three weeks out from that institution and Was often drunk, though le had no cash to spend. He was convicted, and an expense bill was advueed by the police, which tbe lad will have to pay when he is able. He promised to take a light job till his health comet back:

61V EM ANOTHED CHAICE. Harry Turner, convicted of beiag idle and disorderly, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, provided he went 'immediately to his brother in the country. gg SNEAK THIEVING. Little good was told of Leonard iAU red White, a youth of twenty, who confessed that he took £4 from the pocket of Herbert Edward Burrell, coaching fox* man on the Auckland railway station, and thereby caused the bright eyes of suspicion to be cast upon, about fifty honest men. Young White had a past, one portion of which concerned a little lifting episode at Gisborne two year* ago. He was employed, as "si"porter on the railwayi^wh'eh , .%o^went tie coaching foreman's pockets, and seemed a bright enough lad, despite what *»» said of him. Chief Detective McMahon suggested- that the boy should be j remanded for sentence, as a few more [inquiries concerning his moral's and I antecedents might do no harm. He will come up for sentence next Monday.

THREE REMANDS. The police aver that Frederick Miller tried to cut his own . throat with a razor, and the'man himself, who looked rather nervy, did not dispute th* impeachment- Certain people were to have !been in Court to say a word for him, but since they were not present his case, was put down till to-morrow morning.

The villain of that little duel between chisel and baton. John William McChjxe (42), is still in hospital. It seems that the baton .thrown hy ConstaMe Hott broke McClure's jaw, and it has not mended yet. Accordingly he wa« remanded tiH next Monday. Charles James Nolan, a man of fortynine years, was remanded till Thursday of this week on a charge of indecent assault on a girl thirteen years old. .