POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 6 April 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) SEQTTEt TO DRINKING. It was said of William McKec (SSI that he was too drank at Broadway, Newmarket, to get into his cart, so the horse went away without him. He was accused of being drunk in charge of a horse and cart, and was fined £2. The eamc fine, with the usual alternative of 48 hours behind the hare, was meted out to Jamee Sadler (39), Thomas Griffin (46), and Olaf Olsen (58). All were second offending inebriates, Griffin ha>ing made an appearance for the time in the Court on Monday. AN INFATUATED YOTJTH. AVilliam Hector McQuoid (27) was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called upon, and was pro hibited ,and wae also commanded to keep away from a middle-aged woman I'o;----whom he had apparently .conceived a great regard. McQuoid appeared after eeveral remands on a charge of attempted suicide, and the history of tlv; case was outlined by Sergeant Rowel!. It appeared that the young fellow had become infatuated with a woman considerably his elder in rears, but what ever their relations may have been in the past sliu had come to ftar him. He had been arrested at the bac-k door of her house at half-past eleven on tue night of February 25, and had been seno to the Hospital, where he had been successfully |treated for poisoning. Ie was then fojund that he had bought a" ;;oi6onoiio fluid and had drank it. The woman had a husband, and it would be remembered that MeQuoid was recently ! concerned in an allegation against the J .voman's husband —that lie tried to exI tort money from the young man by i threats. Mr. Oliphant appeared for the i eeeusfd. and said McQuoid had been drin!<ir.f.y rather heavily, and his mind «a.- a h'stnk concerning the events of the falal afternoon .and evening. He had jc , ::>■■■ i'.'t'i town, n-ae intoxicated at five i c/fl."'■:. : f>:cht tlir- poison at seven I ijVitrt-U. and was found at the woman \ d:.>cr at liaif-pai»t e'even. An order £"V p,iv:tir:u of £7 lifi expenses, inchidin r nicdii.'a' and hospital fees, was mad' , against McQuoid. who i- to lie kept i- , sight by the po'.icr for a few days un:i: a friend can transport Wun to a .'.inn i:: the country. SHIP'S STOHE3 TAKSS. "Two pounds or ]■< risiy-' , was tue ounishment given to John Bell (59). a seaman (Mr. Moody), who pleaded guilty of an attempt to embezzle a quantity of butter and sugar and a tin of jam, the.*e beinir ship's stores on the Union Company's boat Kawatiri. He was caugii". L-v a Customs officer coming away witii the food in a bag. The idea in the manmind was that as the things he hail taken were portion of the stores for the use of the seamen they could be regarded as his property. OIT REMAND. The hearing of a case against William Henry Pevreal (33), that he stole £110 cash on February 21 from William Cochrane, was adjourned till Monday next, and a similar remand was granted in the case of Albert Joseph PayDe (41), alias Herbert Wilson, who is to be sent to Taumarunui for trial on the charges that he etole from C. A. E. Maule at Ongarue tools valued at 10/6. ACCUSED OF FALSE PRETENCES Bail of £200 was fixed for Albert Charles Thomas Lamb (34). (Mr. Moody). He is to come up on Thursday, April 13. on allegations that he obtained a suit case and two attache cases, altogether worth £6 14/2; that he got four tweed overcoats, two tweed suite, and a pair of trousers, valued at £28 6/6, by a valueless promissory note on the Bank of Australasia at Hamilton; and further that he used abusive language to a Customs officer.