POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 283, 28 November 1921, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) TIME FOR REFLECTION. Don Carroll Watson (26), admitted lwving been drank and having committde a breach of his prohibition order. He had three times previously stained the order with alcohol: but he won't do it again f«r a month at leaet, that being the period allotted him at Mount Eden, where he will have more solid reflection than liquid refreshment. "J*ET ME DIE, SERGEANT!" Constable Eric Parkinson and a companion in blue were on Saturday called to the Queen's wharf to witness a "tragedy." There they found a man named Hy. Smith (aged 27), leaning back against a shed gasping for breath. "Let mc die. Sergeant." he implored. "O, please let mc die!" He eaid he wanted to do away with himself and bad swallowed four pennies. Thie looking like a serious case of copper-poisoning, the "coopers" shook the man violently, but failed to get a rattle. Then they placed him in a taxi-cab, but as he admitted he had ewellowed nothing more injurious than a little beer, he was taken not to the hospital, but to the police station. Thw morning he was brought before the Court and accused of being disorderly while drnnk. He Was convicted and ordered to pay 2/6 taxihire, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. He didn"t h-ave 2/6, co he wjll stay in the House on the Hill until the eun ha* sank and risen once again. OBNOXIOUS ATTSTRIAN. Wilbin Knasi, an eWerly and decrepit Austrian, was fined £3, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for an act of indecency at the markets entrance. AIXEGrTRD O.NKHUMGA THEFT. ■Percy Hill (lfl) was charged -wit* h.ivinsj, on Septemh«>r 16, stolen the evn of £24. the proixrty of John McCairf>. He was remanded to appear at the Onehunga Police Court on Monday next. WOMAN NEARLY CHOKED. Heari-ng ptrange noises emanate from a house in Oreat North Road on Saturday night, police entered therein and found a woman with her head protruding through the bottom railings of a.n overturned bed. gasping for breath. They were juet in time to release her and save her from choking, and then they went out to the back verandah and «iw a man named .Tohn CHve, aged 40, who hnd stood there without having made nny endeavour to release the woman from predicament. When brought into the bedroom, the man ueed some filthy expressions, and was arrested. This morning be pleaded guilty to a charge of obscene language, and wae fined £3, in default 14 days* imprisonment.

SHOP WINDOW SMASHED. A rtnf d-looking, middle-aged" man •named John -.Tame* McMahon appeared in answer to a charge of having committed mischief by wilfully dama-ging a plate glass window, valued at £20, the property of .Tacob Ziman, at Lower Queen Street, Auckland. "He does not look normal." eaid the Magistrate, who remanded defendant for a week for further inquiries. SOTTGHT—AWD FOTTHD. Albert Bowden (20) admitted having used obscene language in Marine Parade, Devonport, on Saturday last. '"Oh, but that's six months ago," he said, when a further charge of -having been found on the licensed premises during prohibited hours was prervrrred against •him. "Yes: they've 'been looking for you," i>l)servcd the Magistrate. (Senior-Sergeant Rawle: He was eagerly and earnestly sought for, but we orily fou-nd him on Saturday. For the language, Bowten was fined £3, in defat'lt 14 days, and for the breach of the licensing laws he was ordered to pay £-2, in default seven daye' imprisonment. HIS ONLT HOPE. .Jamee Glenny Maxwell, a middleajjed roan, said he would swear off the drink if given a chance, when charged' with vagrancy. Sc-rgesMrt Itempsey described him as a man who haul worked hard, but when he came to A'uck'.and he would not leave, the many opportunities for drink in the city proving an irresUtiblp attraction. Maxwell's former employer, a sawmiller up North, had left the money to 'buy the man's railway ticket back to his place of employment, but he would not go, and had loafed around with the drinking mob for months. Maxwell was cent to gaol for three months, the Magistrate remarking that it was the only thing to do to wean him from the drink.

GEORGE CAFFREY AGAIN. George Gaffrey, notorious for his sensational escape fa-run custody when in a moving train, and ror having made a d«*pera.t« resistance againet re-arreet, was brought down from Mt. FJden Gaol, whexe : he is serving a long , sentence of imprisonment, to answer a charge of having broken into the shop of X.ing Tim, in M&nu'kau Road, Parnell and stolen therefrom the sum of £24 10/. He was identified iby a, lady living in proximity to Kang Tim's shop as the man she sa-w removing a pa-ne of gi&ss from the Chin«tman*s premises on S»e day of the alleged robbery, and was committed for trial to the Supreme Court. "It is a weak case against the accused," said the Magistrate: "but, in view of the positive evidence of identification, I must convict him." On two other charges of theft, Caff.rey was reminded to appear at the Wellington Police Court on December 3.

Alfred Pearson (52), formerly a clerk in the employ of the Municipal Fieh Market, pleaded guilty to the theft of £80, involved in three charges, the property of the Auckland City Council. It was stated that accused's method of obtaining the money was to falsify the receipt book. He would give purchasers of flah a proper receipt in full and then enter smaller amounts in the scales ibook on the carbon, retaining the difference for his own use. Pearson was •committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, and released on bail of £200. BREAKING AND ENTERING AiLKGEB. Giuetave Henry Han-*n (20) wa,« remamled to Deeenrber 5 on a charge of having <by niirht broken into the factory of W. C. Melville, DundonaM Street, Xewton, and stolen therefrom tools and clothing valued at £10 10/9. INDECENCY. ; Jolui Charles Steele (46) was fined £3, in default seven days' imprisonment for an indecent act at the markets entrance.