POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 11

POLICE COURT.

1 I i (Before Messrs. D'Arcy Hamilton and \V. J. Riach, J.P.'s.) DRUNKENNESS. * Alice Manning (38) and Wm. Postle- . waite (52), two second offenders, were j fined 20/ apiece. George Saville (33), i who made hie fifth recent appearance, I : made a definite promise to "hop right out to work" if given a chance; he was lined 40/, in default a week's imprisonment. Eight first offenders were dealt i with according to the measure ..of their ' I offending. j j A LUCKY CAPTURE. j j The theft of an overcoat from the I Tivoli Theatre on Thursday night was 1 admitted by a young man, Eric Wm. > Harris (19). Another young man, who had gone to the theatre and had left his coat in the coat-room, had a fancy for some chocolates ju#t before the show started, and when he replaced his hat in the coat-room after getting the sweets he noticed that his overcoat was . i gone. Remembering that he had met another man on the stairway, who was carrying a parcel, he made a quick J reconnoitre and bailed up the man with |' ! the parcel. A brief argument between a man hardened by a righteous indigna- j tion and a man whose conscience had no I support resulted in the parcel being j ! opened, and the missing overcoat was ] there. The owner of the coat then i ! pounced on the other man and called a , I constable, who took Eric W. Harris into ; i custody. Harris gave as a reason for his act that he had had his overcoat stolen : from the, same place some time previ- ! ously, affl he took this style of replacing the loss. He was remanded for sentence , i till Wednesday, pending receipt of the < Probation Officer's report. CONFUSION OF THE MOMENT. William James Lambert (40) admit- I, ted the theft of a pair of boots from ' the shop front of Harry Reason. He was getting along the street with the stolen boots when a constable came round the corner almost on top of him, and was ; • atracted by the fact of the man trying ' to quietly drop a new pair of boote out , of sight into the gutter. Lambert also was remanded till Wednesday for aen-