POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

« (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) A SING SONG. Charles Henry G-lovrr (Mr. Dickson) suffered from the effects of a recent singsong at Tennyson Street to the extent of being fined 20/ or 48 hours' imprisonment on a charge of having been disorderly while drunk, and being committed to the Supreme Court for sentence for a breach of the conditions of his probation. Witnesses told the Court that two women and three men, one of whom was Glover, assembled on a vacant section at Tennyson Street one night round a "demijohn" of beer, and proceeded to become hilarious. The neighbourhood found no harmony to its liking in their singing, and Constable Carter, who was then in plain clothes, told them repeatedly to go home. This they refused to do. according to the evidence of the constable, and Glover threatened him with dire results if he persisted in interrupting them. The constable rang up the police station for asistance, and then returned. The party meantime had left the section, and Glover, together with his wife and her sister and brother, were out in Tennyson Street. Answering Mr. Dickson, the constable said Glover did not appear to be going home, neither did the others seem to be taking him home. In fact, said the constable, Glover showed evident signs of drink, and he was arguing and fighting with the others in Tennyson Street, where he was arrested. Ho was convicted and fined 20/, or 4S hours' imprisonment. The Probation Officer I Rev. F. R. Jeffreys) told the Court that Glover had been put on probation at the Supremo Court after being convicted of forgery, and a strict condition had been made that he should keep away from the city. One night lie had seen Clover in town under the influence of liquor, and had followed him. eventually telling him that he waf Creaking his probation by being in a maudlin state and by being in the city, and threatened him with arrest. Glover pleaded for leniency, and witness gave him a last chance, but next <lay he saw him again in town. The officer asked the Court to commit the man for sentence to the Supreme Court,"which had placed him on probation. The fact of his being convicted to-day made a breach evident. Glover was committed for sentence. DRUNK ON THE TRAIN. William John Quinn was accused of being drunk and refusing to pay his fare on the railway. He said that he and his mate had taken tickets from Auckland to the North, and he had got out of the train at a wayside station and missed it when it re-started, so he had boarded another. His mate had his ticket, but naving once paid the fare he refused to pay it a second time. This story was verified, and Quinn was fined 20/, with 10/ costs, for having been intoxicated, as it' was not his first offence in this direction. Gaol for three days was fixed as the alternative to payment. MINOR TROUBLES. Joseph Gee and Raphael Riffkin were each fined 10/ and costs for lighting fires in the opon air without authority, the police stating that on each occasion the fire had not been enclosed, and was in a danger area; further, that the fire brigade liad been called out. For riding bicycles on suburban footpaths the following", people were fined: — Annie Legg, 20/ and 0/ costs; Lionel Xicholson, 10/ and 0/; Charles Sinel, 20/ and 9/; William Ansell Reynolds. 20/ and n/; Charles Croucher, was fined 10/ and 11/ costs for owning a wandering pony. Under the traffic by-laws Percy Hammond was fined 10/ and costs for driving a motor without lights, and John Pclford was ordered to pay 11/ costs for Kivinjj his motor unattended. Andrew George Warnock. for failing to keep to the left when turning a corner, was tinrd 10/ and 11/ costs, ANOTHER CHARGE. Alfred Hinton. who was before the court on Monday on .harges o^f" and uttering same to -i He was remanded to *i y ganui on Friday, March 1- _