POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.)

WHEN WINE WAS IN. I The list of drink cases consisted of four first offenders for drunkenness, who had to pay 20/ a-.piece. and John "Sutton (56) arid Michael Kenny (50), who were fined each 40.', in default three days' imprisonment. Yet ' another statutory first offender was a young man. whose relatives desired him to try the reformative effect of Rotorqa Island, and, as he agreed to the experiment, he -was committed to the island | for twelve months. John McGill (34). j who had made a noise at an entertainment house on Saturday evening, was fined 40/ and 10/ costs for being disj orderly while drunk. TOOK AN* AXE. j ""When be was told to get out lie took lan axe and broke four panes of glass in the window with it," w-as the statement of the pantryman of a boarding house in Graham Street, about the actions .that resulted in John Carmody (36) j being brought up on cnarges of having j broken windows valued at 41/ and being •v. vagrant. Asked why lie acted in this j violent manner. Carmody made no reply, j and merely looked vacantly at tini magistrate. The senior-sergeant stated | that the man had previously been before I the court on an attempted suicide ■ charge, and bis behaviour generally was ' peculiar. i Carmody was remanded for a we«k for medical observation. CAUGHT THE FIRST TIME. • "It was his first attempt as a bookj maker, and so inexperienced was he I that when the police .losed on him at | Avondale on Saturday lie threw away ' _4 lie had on him. and lias not seen ' any of the money since." This wa= •Mr. A. Moodv's story in mitigation on behalf of Robert Webb, described as » waterside worker, of Birkenhead, who »_> charged with lraving made bets on tote odds at the Avondale races i»n Saturday. YVheo bailed up by Detective* Meiklejohn and O'Brien, when the seventh race was on. Webb bad on nmi 3 memo., which indicate,! mat in> liad taken 42 bets on that race. __^_ j Webb was fined £ l<> and cost*. tfM^.