POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DONNELLY MUST DEPART. Frank Donnelly, a middle-aged man, pleaded guilty to drunkenness and begging, but said he had no recollection of the circumstances leading to his arrest. He said he had come from the country, and had been five weeks out of work. "I have been drinking heavily," said Donnelly: "T don't remember asking for money. Work is hard to get, but I have a job to go to beyond Pukekohe, and if you will give mc a chance I will clear out of the city and go to it." Donnelly was fined 10/ on the charge of drunkenness, and on the begging charge he was ordered to come up for sentence In seven days. j "If you get out of Auckland in that time, well and good. \oa won't hear any more of it," said the magistrate. "If you don't you will be brought back here and dealt with." j THE DISAPPEARING BIKE. I A youth named James Weymouth left | his bicycle in the lane at the rear ot Woollams' chemist's shop yesterday a few .minutes before (i p.m. When he went to obtain it the machine was missing, but ten minutes later when talking to a i policeman in Customs Street he saw a man walking along wheeling the machine. Thomas Stevenson, a fireman on the overseas steamer Pakeha. when charged with stealing the bicycle this morning, told the magistrate that lm was that drunk on tho previous day he did not remember what he had done, anil had no idea of what he was going to do with the bicycle. Ho was lined .Co. ROBBED HIS FELLOW BOARDERS. I Sidney Charles Joyce (23). an Englishman, pleaded guilty to theft by having pawned a gold medal and chain lent to him by a fellow-boarder named James Price at Devonport, but denied having stolen a £5 note, the property of another boarder named Carl Roy Larsen. It was shown in evidence that the money was found to be missing by the owner after the. accused had been in his bedroom, and that the accused, who had been "broke" and out of work for three weeks, had afterwards liquiI dated « debt to a Devonport shopkeeper, tendering a £5 note in payment. I Witnesses declared that on July 30. 1 the day before the theft of the £o, Jovee was with them at a two-up school and had no money to bet with. Accused, however, swore that be bad won £b at the two-up school. The magistrate said he was of opinion that the accused's evidence was false, and rendered suspicion into a certainty. He would bt convicted on both charges, ane remanded for sentence until Mondaj next. j A CUSTOMS CASE. j Alfred Wildman. Stephen Tiller. Join j Evans, and Henry Jacob Howard, all sea I faring men, were, presented on a charg .of smuggling a quantity of groceries valued at about £3. They pleade. guilty, but as the duty was under £1 the Collector of Customs asked that he b allowed to deal with the men in hi office. He had not laid an iniormatio against the men, he said, because i dealt with by the Court they could no be fined less 'than £25 each. If he deal with them in his office (as empowere by the Act) the penalty fixed where tb duty was under £1 was a minimum c €2, and a maximum of £5. The men wei - discharged to be dealt with by the Cti- ; toms. i| TRAFFIC CASES. '\ John S. Henwood was fined £2 3/ fo j negligent driving, and Frank Keid £4 5 I for- obstructing a tram car. the? amounts including costs. ? - i\ PRISONER OVERLOOKED. "j When the name of an accused wa. *! called in the Auckland Police Court ttu* 1 morning there was i o response. a » had 'been granted, and the Court began V° consider the question or*****™* "I knew he had been g«*M *# *£ " ! I did not know " accused's solicitor. Ho* c here, and the po£«£j £ t IS QUt on . ba il. v prison, so he rousthave g ; Howe 1 ' d ° n ' t kn r ° P d frequently that the "He is s < u ch'a quiet prisoner that he was overi looked 'this morning when the others 1 were brought here, said fcergt. Hnwdl. - The prisoner was allowed to stay where Ihe .was. as his case was further ! remanded.