POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Messrs. E. G. Twohill and J. H. Fray, J.l'.'s.) FIVE POUNDS FOR A PUNCH. Following on an argument in a city hotel on Saturday afternoon, a man named Horace Richard Neal sustained a nlackened optic, with the result that lames A. Lee (24) was charged this morning with assault. Accused dent. ,1 the charge, but the Bench, after hearing evidence, decided otherwise, and he w.-s convicted and fined £5. of which £2 was ordered to be paid to the victim of tbe assault. "I know about you Lee boys,"' said Mr Twohill. "You "have a penchant for going around the hotels, looking for drunken men. I hear you are decent chaps sober, but when you take on drink you are like lunatics, seeking whom y.-.i may devour, and any mug you come across you sail into. You'd better keep away from the hotels." "A BIT OF A SPAP.'' Joseph Nolan and George Roland Fcek had "" a bit of a spar" in a moment nf exhilaration in Victoria Street on Saturday night, and pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening behaviour. After being admonished, they were convicted and discharged. .^u»4 AN LNPF.NSIVE "JOKF." At the entrance to a city hotel yesterday afternoon, a stranger stood a couple of" feet off a visiting boarder from Hamilton, and, extending his hand, familiarly (licked off bis spectacles, thereby temporarily afflicting the Hamiltnnian's eyesight, and irremediably injuring the' glasses, which fell to the ground and were smashed. The. stranger professed regret fur his "joke,'" and offered to pay for the damage, but whin he was asked to hand over he moved oil. The dc-spcetacled man followed, however, and when the stranger remonstrated with him in obscenely abus've terms, he gave him in charge. This morning Frank Harrington (39) was ordered to pay 30/ to replace tbo smashed spectacles, and was fined £1 fur the obscene language. "He's a decent man," said Mr. Di'kson. in asking the Bench to '"make ii light." "Very." remarked Senior-S-rgeins Rawle," drily, "be was fined her- a months ago for an indecent action. '