POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 60, 11 March 1921, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

I Before Mr. J. H. Hannan and C. ("irosvonor. .T.P.'s.) HIS HONOUR CLEARED. An indiirnant protest asrainst this stain lon his honour was made by a shabby , ■ pentecl old man. Barron Dpvoley, of ■ mixed Frpnrh and Island blood, who was j charged -.vith the theft of a silver- ' mounted walking stick. The stick had j i disappeared from the bar of the Anchor j j Hotel in August last, and was seen last! I month in the hands of old Pcvoley. | j Asked for an explanation at the time, he ! I stood on his dignity and declared he had jgot it "from the world. ,. When he was brought to court the old man declaimed I against the stain on his honour, and i handed up the name of a business man from whom he had pot the stick. The I j husinew man, a coloured man keeping a I cleaner's shop, wae sent for by the court, i and he, declared that the stick had been j left in his shop by a customer, and after I 'a time he pave it to old Devoiev. [ The charge against the old man was dismissed. THE HOUSING VEXATION. A tenement case -with variations -was a I charsre acrainst .Inhn Ambrose (Vott"v. ' that at Southdown on February 23 tie j ! assaulted CJco. F. Page. The eireumstan- | Ices put before the court were that Pa<»e j owned a house in Te Papapa in which he ! kopt a room, while the rest of the house | I was rented to Crotty, a feilow-employee ! at tlie Southdown freezing works. Page | jsold the house to another man, and let !' the new purchaser into his room with I i the idea of netting possession of the j I house. Crotty didn't want to {ret out I lof the house, and that night went to I-where Pape was working in the ie« room I and assaulted him with his fists. Page! J said that in self-defence he struck ' j Crotty with a bottle, but despite that he ! I pot. the worse of the deal. Mr. Houston, | I for complainant, applied to have Crotty I I bound over to keep the peace. Crotty's ' 'version was that after an arrangement | \ hud been made to allow him time to | I get out of the house, Page and the new j .owner had taken advantage, of Mrs.! Crotty's absence, at a maternity home,' Jto shift the furniture out. Witness thi-n ; wanted Page to skm the rent book, to ! support his case for time to fret out, and I declared that it wasn't until Pase' de- i j dined to sijm the hook and pulled a bottle on him that he struck I'asje in i anger. Tn reply to his counsel, 5 " Mr. i i Sinper, he said there was no danger of ! ; further trouble. 1 Defendant was fined 20/ and 54/ coaU, < jbut no bond to keep the. peace was rej quired of him. I MISCELLANEOUS. Stanley Cornish, for driving a horse j, ! when it was suffering- from a sore on the i inside, had to pay 11/ costs. For motor- ' [cycling in Symonda Street at a speed ( considered dangerous to the public, (Alfred Arkle was lined £." and 33.', and David Garton, who was racing- with the ! previous defendant at the time, was also ' fined £3 and 35/ costs. !