POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1922, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. .1. W. Povnton, S.M.) IN ACCOUNT WITH THE WIFE. 1 "I mulorMiiml tliiit lie is living with and keeping nnntln'r woman while hf> is |m; iiiL' niii'r.na ill .ill for his wife and chilri." ile.lareil Mr. Inilor concerning', Krnc-t Win lici.l il'ii. who admitted I being £1-S :n :irrears with a maintenance order nf i.\ per week. Roid made an offer t" pay >n much a week, and thp mnci-inu. , state.l that he would make -lire nf compliance with the order by wiiti-m-in,? the ni:in to six months' har<l laliour. the warrant to he sii»pemle<l so lung as defendant paid 5/ n week off the nrrPiir-s in addition to keeping up the order nf £3 a week. PUT IT ON HER " BOY." The theft nf v lady's handliag containing '■>' fi. which liiid been left in the tram shelter af St. Paul's Church, was diarpcd apiin-t Hilda lina Terr.y (3f»), Mrs. Mnrearot \Vy*e. the owner of the 'hap. said -ho saw accused across the roail a- witne-s was sitting in the sheltor with her husband. Witness left J her ba£ behind on the scat and it was pone when =he returned f«- it. Pome days later -lie s,. vv ncctiW in the street with the has and took it from lier and informed the police. Accused told the ■police tb.it the bap had been given her by the man who "kept company" with her. sayinjr lie had picked it up in the strept. Incidentally she mentioned that shp was married, but living apart from liPr husband. TTer "boy" was put in the witness box and denied having made his friend the present she alleged, or havins said anything about having picked up a hag in thp street. Accused, who hud previous convictions, but not for dishonesty, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. IN POINT ERIN PARK. An old man of 70 years was charged with using insulting behaviour at Point Erin Pnrk on tho evening of May 4. Constable Leslie stated that in consequence of complaints ho wn* on plainclothes duty in the park when he saw the defendant loitering about, and eventually get round to a hedge immediately 'behind a teat on which a young couple were seated. He crouched in under the hedge just behind the young people. When witness accosted the old man he said he had been taken ill. Mr. A. Moody, for defendant, pointed out that his client was hard of hearing and of failing sisrht. so that it was more likply that his explanation of his behaviour was true than that suggested by the constable. Remarking that be could not ?ee how defendant's action amounted to insulting behaviour, his Worship dismissed the charge. A WHARF TXCIDEXT. John Lamer, a waterside worker, was charged with having obstructed a Customs officers in th , execution of his duyt. The facts were that on April 4 I.«n"i was carrying a parcel when going off the whurf, and was accosted by a Customs oflicer with a demand to have a look at what was in the parcel. The officer stated that Lamer refused the request, and iwed bad language, caught him by thp arm and twisted it till a Harbour Hoard patrol officer came on the scene, when Lamer did as he was asked. There wae nothing dutiable in the parcel. It was a pair of second-hand boots. Defendant declared that Tie neither used bad language nor any force to the Customs officer, though there was a certain amount of jocular fencing before he gave up the parcel. His Worship remarked that the obstruction was not serious, and ordered defendant to pay 59/ costs. MISCELLANEOUS. ■Edith Fownnll (40). for a filth recent offence, was sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment. Salvadore Trapona. for failing to keep his premises at Mount Albert clean, was fined 20/ and 30/ costs. DENTISTRY.