POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 55, 5 March 1921, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mt. J. W. iPoynton, S.M.) IS A BAG WORTH Cβ 10/ T When John Millar (43) was having a drink with a mate at the Waitemat* Hotel !bar th« other day he spied a brief bag on the Moor. So he told tie •mate to take it home for him, and the mate said he would. i*o Millar's pal ballasted the bag with beer and got it as far at* the door of the hotel, where , another man came up and demanded the bag. In feet, lie carried his demands a little further, and attempted to wrest the bag from Millar's pal, who refused to j deliver, and was assisted by Millar. But I the unfortunate fact of the whole affair . i was that the rude stranger really did ' own the 'bag, and Millar's pal, an entirely innocent party, had been misled by [ Millar, who consequently stood in the dock this morning, and told the old, old story that he had "no remembrance" of ' the affair. The price of his forgntful- ' t ness was assessed by the magistrate at ( £.">, with 30/ costs, or two months in prison. He was allowed a. month in , which to pay, the bag was returned, and Millar's mate lost his beer. ', HE FOUND TROUBLE. George Kecnan (54) has a face that is quite well known in the Police Court. ■ I This time he was asked to explain wliy he 1 1 thickened the atmosphere of Victoria '• Street with sundry filthy expressions, ' I addressed other ungentlemarrly remarks 1 1 to Constable Fitzgerald, and finally ' fought ferocio-uely against arrest. ' Keenan said he knew nothing about it, I but !Senior-c3ergeant Rawle said he was i ' looking for trouble, and after disdaining. several friendly warnings he got it. The magistrate added to his troubles a term of one month at Mount Jiden. "I DON'T WORK.'' i The facts of the case of Patrick • Graves (48), who pleaded not guilty of ! I being idle and disorderly, and having no ' i means of support, and who waa eventur ally convicted of being as described, : were simply told by Constable Baker, of Newmarket. It appears that the constable subjected Graves to a searching interrogation regarding his habits, and the man's answers are here given seriatim: "I don't work, and I don't intend to." "I slept in the Borough Council shed last night, and tho night *c- . j fore."' -'I slept at Elleralie the night I before that." "I live on fresh air." In j justice to Graves, it may be mentioned I that he told a slightly different story to i ' the court, saying he had been for four , years working at Whangarei, he had - been on the 'booze and ''somebody , pinched all mc clothes." Also that r somebody had pulled his house down, f nnd he thought he had wages still due , to him at \Vhanfiarei, but wasn't sure. I' 'is list was a fairly comprehensive one, 5 ' including a conviction for attempted i suicide. On conviction ho was ordereS • j to come up for sentence on May 1, and 7 I told to fro and get work in the meanj I time. M COULDN'T GET A ROOM. B I '"Xot guilty," said Ellen Rodden c (Mrs.), who was found wandering in f Queen Street late at night, and was consequently arrested on account of having c insufficient means of support. She told ~ the magistrate she had reared a large ,f : family, had a returned soldier son in - Wellington and a husband at Dunedin, I I and had worked all her life. "I am never ,_ idle," she declared. She was convicted, g but sentence was suspended, as she had a said she could not get a room anywhere. <j She assured the court that her midnight j wanderings would not be repeated. " THE DRINK LIST. c Ernest Cox (38). a wanderer along R the ways of alcohol for the third time c i within six months, pleaded for a chance ! and offered to take out a prohibition n order. "A prohibition order is of no I use to you," §aid the magistrate, "fined I £3 or seven days." I Agnes Campion (.37) was remanded I again, awaiting arrival of a warrant from Pakatoa.

j MISCELLANEOUS. Two young fellows, Samuel Mills (16) and James Henry Young (19), were arrested on a count of breaking and I entering the premises of Daniel Ryan at Kingsland, yesterday. Since they had just been arrested, they were remanded j till Monday week on bail of £50 each. I Edward Styles (35), on a charge of assaulting a lady, pleaded guilty, but was remanded for sentence until the police make further inquiries concerning his character. Alfred Brown (23), was also remanded till Monday week (he could not find bail) on the allegation that he stole a bicycle.