POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 304, 22 December 1921, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(Before ■Mr. J. W. Poynton, SM.)' CHRISTMAS DRUNKS. The list of those who had drank more than was good for them, against showed a holiday length to-day. Robert Johnston (42) was fined £2 for coming back too soon, as he had been before the court a day or two ago. £2 was the penalty taken from Michael Leader (36), who was also made to pay cab hire. Charles Reid (34), up for the sixth time within six months, was sent to gaol for four weeks, and Edwin Cook (43), a second offender, was mulcted of £1 2/6. Several first offenders were convicted and discharged, two who did not put in_in appearance losing their bail money. IN FIGHTING MOOD. The accumulated accusations against Thomas Sexton (21), a seaman, wereths result of a misunderstanding in the Princess Theatre last night, and cost him £8 14/ in fines and costs. The charges against Sexton were that he used obscene language in the theatre, he assaulted Garnet Bennett, the caretaker; he damaged a pair of Government trousers valued at £2 10/; he did a pound's worth of damage to a motor ear; he resisted a police constable in the execution of his duty. The evidence was that he carried a load of liquor into the Princess and would not go out when asked. He fought with Bennett and when a constable was called in he gave him a few rounds too. damaging the policeman's trousers in the struggle, and fighting hard as he was taken away in a taxi. Accused had very little to say. The commander of the boat gave him a good character, and the magistrate finedhim £3 for using the filthy language, and £2 for the assault, Sexton being also ordered to make good the damage he had done, and pay the motor hire. TWO IRISHMEN. "Idle and disorderly, without sufficient lawful visible means of support." This was the soft impeachment levelled against Thomas Grog-an (45), rilias O'Brien, and John O'Brien, alias Murphy, Grogan pleaded guilty without more ado, and was given a home at Mount Eden for three months. O'Brien on the other hand denied the accusation. He said he was getting a military pension and could p;et no work, although he had tried hard to get a job. He was evidently known to the police, and was sentenced to a month, so that both the two are at last assured of getting a Christmas dinner. THRTTi MONTHS' WORK. "If you let mc go this time sir, Til try hard to be better." said George Harrison (."). who was known also as White, Hansen, or Martin. He was accused of being idle and disorderly without lawful means of support, also with entering a hotel while prohibited, and the policeman who took him in said he had four bottles of methylated spirits in his pocket. Harrison, or W r hitc, or Hansen, or Martin, told the., court he had not intended to drink the spirits himself. His appeal to tire magistrate for mercy was not answered the way he desired, for he was sent under the .sheltering roof of Mount Eden prison for three months. MISCELLANEOUS. William Snelling was remanded for a week on a charge of forging a receipt, altering £1 to £3, and uttering it to Les Mclnness. Bail was fixed at £100. E. Cavell was ordered to repay the Takapuna Jockey Club £5 0/6,' this being the sum lost to the club through ■the mishandling of tickets.