POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1922, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. B. Wilson, S.M.) There were no "fighting" cases at the Police Court to-day. Excepting- one man, -who said he did not recollect being in Auckland on the day when he was stated to have broken a traffic by-law, none of the defendants had anything to say Manuel Valvoi (20), who was given five yeare' probation on a serious charge at the Supreme Court recently, _p leaded guilty of the theft of a pair of lady's shoes worth £1 10/ from Knight and Co. He was remanded to appear at the Supreme Court on Tuesday next, as he had broken the terms of his probation.

TWO OLD CASES. A woman named Olga Curtin (37), who had been ordered to come up for sentence on a conviction for theft of a wristlet watch a year ago, was discharged, as she had made the full restitution ordered. Charles Edward Storie, who had been convicted for theft of a double-barrelled gun in July last, and ordered to come up for sentence to-day provided he paid £4 16/ within a month, was said to have failed to pay this money, and was remanded till to-morrow. INTOXICATION. William Hughes (37), drunk for the second time inside four weeks, was fined £1, and a first offender was convicted and discharged.

AFTERMATH OF ACCIDENT. On January 23 George Dickenson, a taxidriver, 'was passing a stationary tramcar at a speed he estimated at twelve miles an hour when a boy got off the car. According to the taxidriver the motor struck the youth before there was time to pull up, and the victim of the accident had to be taken to the hospital. Dickenson was fined flO, and ordered to pay costs ana witnesses expenses amounting to £1 18/. SAVED HIS OWN LIFE. The charge against Ernest John Ryan was that he had failed to stop his motor car at a level crossing on the approach of a train. The consequences of this neglect of the N w Zealand railway regulations was serious to him, for the engine struck the car, smashing it completely, and Ryan, who was the only person in the ear, saved himself by getting on to the cow-catcher of the locomotive. As be had sustained such a loss he was merely convicted of the offence and ordered to pay costs amounting to 9/.

BY-LAW BDREACHES. For breaches of the traffic by-laws the following fines and costs were inflicted: Motors unattended: H. Allridgc, £1 and 9/; A. J. Stratford, 10/ and 9/: G. Wilcock, 10/ and 9/." Speeding: J. R. Buellen, £2 and 13/; J. T. Connor, £2 and 13/; F. Duncan, £2 and 13/; J. E. Grey, £4 and 13/; E. E. Allen, £2 and 11/. Insufficient lights on car: T. H. Cotter, £1 and 13/; J. Teesdale, 10/ and 9/. Failing to stop when tramcar stationary at Newmarket: F. Marsden, £3 and 9/. Riding bicycle on footpath: J. Robb, 10/ and 9/. Allowing a horse to wander: W. A. Glover, 10/ and 19/.