POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 195, 16 August 1920, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. j Daniel Murphy (40), who appeared as, a third recent offender, was fined 10/ j , (in default. 4-S noun. imprisonment) ; j ' the some penalty descended on Reuben ] • YVistlev (30 and William Carey (41), J ' -who had cadi done it twice recently. Joseph Edward Clapham (HI), up for the third time recently, was prohibited and was ordered to [ray 15/ a week off a j hospital bill of _3 11/0. .lack Gallagher' (60). for fretting drunk when prohibfUi was lined 30/. in default, three days'. | James O'Connor (.10), for resisting arrest when he was drunk and refusing to quit the United Service. Hotel when requested to do so by I he' licensee, was fined £3. Two first offenders forfeited ba.il. IN THE WAKE OF A CIRCUS. .lolm M. Gruftieinc 136), who had been , left behind in the wake of a. circus, and ; had been picked 1171 at midnight on Saturday without, any means, was charged with vagrancy, and was remanded for a week with a condition that he remain meantime at the Army Home. It was stated that the man was without means I .-it the moment, -but said he had come j from Australia with a circus and had , about Cl 5 due. liiiu by the proprietary. BUSINESS -WITH BOYS. 1 (leorge Jackson admitted a breach of I the Secondhand Dealers' Act in that he purchased goods from boys under sixteen years of a;,', it was stated that Jackson was hawking round Hamilton, ami that,lie bought from two small boys at. their home, and in the absence of (heir parents, an old copper boiler for *./. and .-, quantity of bones for ■>/. both prices being considerably below the value of tin- goods, .lackson reckoned that he had paid a fair price, but the magistrate informed ,hini that whatever 1 tiie price the law did not allow him to Ido business with boys under sixteen. I Defendant was fined 10/ anfi 13/ costs. BETWEEN DANCES. I A charge against George Mitchell of ' having used insulting language in the Trades Hall proved to have been the outcome of a. family quarrel in which words were passed between 'MitOjhel] and his wife, who were living apart, and a j lady friend of Mrs. Mitchell. The cviI dence had got to the point of the ladies • concerned having stated that Mitchell had said something (wihieh was repeated unconcernedly), had his face slapped by a lady, and was shown tho door by the M.C. but 11,1 complaint was made about language, except as an after-thought. The ,-har-c was dismissed. HE WHO HESITATES IS BUMPED A chartre of negligent tram driving was broug,ht against Robert de Malmaiiclie. a tramway motorman. as the result of a collision at the .Shortland Street corner iv l_niecn Street on June lis, lii-t.iveeii a tram anil a horse and cart. The evidence was to the effect that an old man. Frank lien/, driving a liorse and cart, saw a tram, driven hv defendant. slowing down at the Shortland Street stop as it went up the street. He started to driv c across the street. when tiie car came on and struck the cart. The old man and the other witnesses stated that the tram driver did nut look ahead until the collision actually occurred, but was occupied looking back to see what passengers were getting on and off the (ram. Tile witnesses were divided on the point of whether - the tram actually stopped altogetner, i or was merely slowed down at the. stop. 'Die defendant declared that he stopped the ear at ihe stop, looked l>c,rfind to see that all the were el-ear, rang the trong and started. He then saw the old man's cart approaching the crossing, and the latter appeared to start, but when witness put t,he power nn to "cut in" the old man unrod his liorse on ntrain. Witness then saw there would lie a collision, and applied the emergency brake. A passenger in the ear supported this statement, as also did another witness, who said both drivers j were hesitat intr. j I Tiie magistrate remarked that pro--1 bably the tram driver had -been over- j anxious about looking behind to see 1 bis passeneers clear, nnd was slow in - look in- ahead to the other traffic. The eharsri' would be dismissed on payment - of tlic costs. L' 4 17. j MISCELLANEOUS. | William Hrigliting. on a charge of, indecent assaull was remanded for a week. Thomas I.enilian. on a charge of .having thrown offensive matter on the street from an hotel window, was fined ■111 .