POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1922, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

I I Before Mr. J. TV. Poynton, S.M., and j two J.P.'s.) S KNOW- ON WHARVES. ! "A perfect pest on the waterfront," I was the description of Albert James : Dillon, a young man, given by Sergeant ! Howell. Dillon was formally charged with being an incorrigible rogue and ', vagabond. It waji said that be lived ; during the day on food given him bycooks on the wharves and slept wherever ; he could on the waterfront, mostly on . boats that had no caretakers. "It's not 1 my fault, sir," said Dillon when it was I pointed out that he had a bad record, j He was sent to gaol for three months. i AN EXTRA MONTH. ( Henry Samuel Burton, a youth, was ' brought from Mount Edeu, where he is : at present serving a sentence of six : months, and charged with the theft of a ' gold locket and chain, valued at £1 3/. He admitted this, and was given an extra 1 month in the prison. i DOMESTIC TROUBLE. j Henry Herbert Watson (Mr. Dickson) was accused of assaulting Louisa May Watson, his wife, on Saturday e\ening. He had been convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months for a similar assault on his wife a year ! ago, as a separation order had previously ' been made against him. Evidence was i

given that Watson had lived again with his wife, thus automatically quashing the order. Mr. Sullivan appeared for the wife, and asked'for another order for separation, but this was left for the future. The facts of the assault, as out. lined to the Court, were that the wife and her sister came home from the circus at about 10.40 on Saturday night, and found the husband waiting for them. He pushed her down and snatched her bag. going away with it after her sisu'r had ] come to her rescue. Watson himself j said he had been living amicably with his 1 wife till three weeks ago, when trouble arose because she had sold for £45 furniture he hud bought with the assistance of the Repatriation Department. The wife said the furniture was her own. Watson was convicted and ordered to comeup for sentence on March 1 next year, a condition being that he should not molest his wife in the meantime, and not ! even to go near her till the claim for the new separation order had been heard. CASH TAKEN FROM CHINESE. Two charges of breaking, entering and j theft of money from Chinese dwellings j at -Tamaki West were preferred against j Henry Richard Jeffrey, aged 23, and he 1 pleaded guilty to entering the house of j Jan Kit, a market gardener, and taking | I£s 2/3 in money; and also entering the 1 place of Fong On and stealing £0 7/ j cash. In a statement made to Detective Knight, accused said he was a mar- I ried man with two children and had ■ been unable to get work. He needed money to maintain his wife and children, and went out to Tamaki, but was unsuccessful in finding work there. He went to a Chinese dwelling and there j was nolbody there. He found the key and opened the door. He needed money, so he took from boxes inside about £5 in i cash. Then he went to another Chinese house, where nobody was at home. He j found the key and entered this house, j iinding about £8 10/ in cash and some I postal notes. He took the money and j left the postal notes. Altogether he had taken about £8. He had only done this | Ito maintain his wife and children. If given a chance to make good he would repay. Pleading guilty to both charges, Jeffrey was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. REMAND 3. I Samuel Anderson Harris, a man of I about 40, was remanded till next MonI day on a charge that he attempted to ! carnally know a girl 15 years old. Bail (of £200"-was granted. William Nathaniel Pamplin was again remanded in custody for a week on two assault charges arising from the injuries sustained on March 4 by Constable McKay, who was said to be very slowly improving. INEBRIATION. A charge of drunkenness against a ' woman was held over for a week, as she ■is in hospital. Three first offending ' inebriates were dealt with, one being convicted and discharged and the other ' two being fined their bail money in j»default of appearance. =====