POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

I Before Mr. J. VY. Pojnton, S.M.) REVOLVER IN HAND. "He was found wandering ahont the staliles in Lome Street at midnight with a fully-loaded revolver in his hand and the idea that somebody was trespassing on the place." stated Sergeant Rowel] of James Clements (05), who keeps a livery stable in Lome Street, and »as chargea with having an unregUtereil firearm in his possession. The sergeant stated tltat Clements at times took to drinking and then got queer ideas. Thi> was one of the occasions, and he was carrying; a heavy oinlibre Colt revolver, which two members of the police had to take away from him by force. Clements said he had had the revolver for thirty years, hi/t the Magistrate remarked thai that, did not make it any less dangcrou< a thing for him to run round with at night. Hi! lined the man and ordered the forfeiture of the revolver. A STOWAWAY. Richard Mason i-oi, a youth who had arrived as a slo\va\va\ on the Makura from Sydney, said he stowed away l>ccause he could lind no work in Melbourne* or Sydney. ;iixl hoped to get something to do in New Zealand. lie was merely a lalmurcr, lie said. He was convicted and ordered to come i,p for sentence when calleJ on, and to pay his passage money of I'O I<V within that time. THE GUEST'S JOKE.

Theft of a diamond ring, valued ;>t t:><>, in a house where he had been invited to tea was the charge agaiiwt Alexander Reginald Ellis. 31 years of age. The appearance of Ellis, with witness' husband, for tea, and to stay for the night, was stated in evidence by -Mr?. Marion Walker, who said that after tea she noticed her diamond ring on the dinins room mantelshelf. Later in the evening she missed the ring from the shelf, and both Mr. and Mrs. Walker very plainly stated their suspicions to Ellis, who denied any knowledge of the ring. The police were railed in. but a search produced nothing , . Xext clay, p.ftor Mr?. Walker had stated that she valued the ring for its association* and would gladly pay .£lO to get it back. Kllis said the ring was above the door in the passage, and it wa.% found them. When aiVefited accused confessed having committed the theft because he was hard up, and having later returned it because of Mrs. Walker's distress over the matter. In the box hn stated that he took the ring in the first place for a practical joke, and expected Mrs. Walter to find the ring next day when the passage was dusted. He pleaded "not guilty," and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. | FOUND A CHEQUE BOOK. I The for- ry of three cheques for sum* aggregating €3.3 was admitted by John i Andrew Rlddell, a young man who was a salesman for a motor exchange comI pany that had a business in Phoenix I Chambers. At the offices where lie I worked a cheque book was inadvertently left behind by a customer, and accused used cheques from this book, typing in the amounts and signing what he said was a fictitious name. The signature was - 'F. J. Sanderson and Co.,'" and evidence was given by the only F. .1. Sanderson who had a local account with the bank (New Zealand). Krancis Joseph Sanderson, agent, of Fort Street, that lip invariably signed his cheques "Frank J. Sanderson." and that. thi> signature written by accused was in no way like hl«. The three cheques were enshod by accused at Newmarket and Onehunga in grocery shops. Accused pleaded "guilty," and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. ! MISCELLANEOUS. ! Winnie Brnuehton (3S) und Chris. '; Kristiansen (29), who had been found by night in a shed in Halsey Street, j were charged with vagrancy, and the I woman was sentenced to fourteen days' I imprisonment, while the man was conI vjeted and discharged. A youtli or" eighteen years «?.* lined £.i for using obscene language on the iitrcet.