POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) IN DOUBTFUL COMPANY. A youth of nineteen atlmitted the theft of a dinghy from the beach ac l'onson>by. He was in company with a young man named lnkster, who had invited him to spend a week-end on a yacht, and. ho said, at In'ksters suggestion they wont fram tne yacht to the beach and took a dinghy they founa there. Mr. A. 11. Johnstone, for accused, pointed out that the latter was the guest of Inkster. wlio was several years older than the young fellow, and that what he did was rather to aid in the thtift than to actually steal the dinghy. The magistrate amended t:.e cluuge to one of assisting Jnkster in the wrongful conversion to his own use of the dinghy, and in viow of the lad's previous good character convicted and orde.od him to pay costs und to come up for senten.ee if called upon within a year. Another member of the yachting party, a lad of sixteen, who owned an unregistered revolver that had been found in Inkster's possession, having been lent to the latter, was fined £10 for having unlawful possession of a firearm.

ALLEGED P.O. BANK FORGERY. A youth. Robert Coleord, was charged ■ with the theft of a bankbook belong- : ing to Alexander Rea, and with the forging and uttering of two withdrawal ' slips of C 3 on Hea's Post Oflice Savings 1 Bank account. Rea stated that on May 24 In- lent O to accused, who lived next door to him, writing out a with ' drawal claim on his bank account for , the purpose, lie wrote it out in his room in Colcord's presence. On May 20 •he missed his bankbook and informed .the police. Two withdrawn' slips prp- ' eenteel at the Post Oflice on May 24 and May "20 for £3 each, in his name, were forgeries. J. C. Tooman. clerk at tho Post Office identified accused as the '.man who pj»*scnted the withdrawal slips ■ stated by Rea to be forgeries. : Accused pleaded not guilty, ard was 1 committed to the Supreme Court for 1 trial. I j MISCELLANEOUS. •Hc-Hbert A. Gamble (33), for assaulting Joan Josephine Tories (49). who 1 was living in the same house in W-avci-'.ley Street. an<l for using <>b.-oene lanI gnage in the course of a drunken alter-'cat-ion, was remanded for a fortnight 1 ponding payment of £7 10/ medical ' expenses on the woman's behalf, and the woman was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon Archibald Williamson, a middle-aged ■ man. for exposing his person when he I was drunk in the street, was fined to r Henry Daniel Lampc (6.1), for comI mrtting v nuisance in the street was i: fined £.".