POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Hefore Mr. .1. W. Poynton. S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Three lirst offenders were dealt with in the usuai way, and Frederick VVatterstrand (47) was lined 40/. in default three days. for n second offence. Michael McLean |.'>o), who made bis third appearance within the month, was informed by the magistrate that lie was coming along too often, and was given a month's imprisonment as an antidote.

"Was drinking and didn't know what 1 was doing."' was the explanation given by Terence Bremner (.IS), who admitted having stolen a pair of boots valued at IS/*> from the? shop doorway of Crocker Bros, in Oueen Street. He was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. TOOK TO PROSPECTING. Claude Cecil Cook (.I:!), who had been prospecting for gold in the Nelson district when arrested for being £4.3 in arrears with payments for tbe maintenance uf his wife and four children, staled that during the past twelve months he had tried bush work in the Mamaku and Taumarunui districts, but owing to wet weather aud the fact that he had attacks of asthma lie had nut been able to cam more than hi- u\vn keep. Consequently he had gone to s ee if he could make a strike al gold digging, and had managed to get only £12 10/ ahead of the cost of living when he was arrested. An inquiry about the girl he bad left, home fur elicited tbe statement that be had not been keeping her fur the past year or mure. He \va* sente.nocd to six months' hard labour, the warrant to lie suspended s,, long abe kept up tbe. weekly payment- for hiwife's maintenance and paid .V per week off the arrears.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS. Two -mall buys whu had destroyed a couple uf private letter boxes by bum bardiug then) with .stones were admonished, and their parents were order.-.1 tv pay the damage, amounting te tl. A long series of thefts from iiflii'cin the city was admitted h,- two buy. "Shout fourteen years ~f age. Tbei bad got permission tv go in -everal ..ili .-- collecting waste-paper, and «::_i the standing thus given them in the nlli.-e buildings they cunimitted .i nuiubci- "* . thefts vi watches and pur-ei. from lb.coat- uf women and men in the variuitS cloakrooms, getting quite a onn.idoral.'i.sum of money before the;, were eventu j ally detected! One of the lad- mi. .in ! industrial school hoy who bad been ,lieen.-ed out to his parent-, and ie- look advantage of la*- control. The other 'had a good home with an uncle. lb.father being rather indifferent :,, the lid'- welfare. Both lads wer.- ordered ten -troke-- of the birch, and the indutrial school boy was consigned hack 1., thi school, while the other lad »a- pin j on two years' probation, and an urde: | for the payment of £1* restitution of j stolen property was mad.- again. t his I father.