POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Ponton. S.M.) ROBBED HIS SHIPMATE. On Boxing Day the small steamer Waipu went on an excursion run to Brown's Bay. When the steamer was" lying at the rendezvous, someone descended to the fo'c'sle and stole a wallet containing £3 and some papers from the hunk of Henry Alcock. A fellow seaman named Michael Harry Stewart was suspected, and on being interviewed by Detective Gourley. he confessed to the theft and made a statement to the effect that he stole below whilst the other seamen were on deck, took the wallet from Alcock's hunk, abstracted the money, and threw purse and papers overboard. He went to the races and lost the stolen money, in addition to £5 he had been paid off his ship with. When arrested he was "broke." Stewart pleaded guilty this morning, and, describing his action in stealing from a shipmate as a very mean one. the 1 magistrate sentenced him to two months" imprisonment. BANG WENT THE BARRET. Joseph Baceon. a French-Canadian, went -into the City Hotel on Thursday afternoon and asked the harman to supply him with a drink free. This being foreign to the code of barmen, the request was refused, thereupon Baceon exclaimed, "Well, go to !" and pushed a 30----gallon barrel of beer, which was reposing peacefully on the counter, over on to the man behind, much good liquor being spilled thereby. Baceon, a gigantic seaman, who said he had formerly belonged to the steamer Xavua. was convicted this morning of | wilful damage and ordered to pay 14/ i for injury to the floor, the barrel, the.' beer and the barman's feelings, also 12/6 | witness' expenses and cab hire, in default seven days imprisonment. As the , Frenchman had no money, lie went to' Mount Eden to see the old year out and the new year in. "A LIGHT BLOW. ] When charged with having assai ltd ■ William Augustus Williams at the Epsom trots yesterday, Jamee Tydlesley, a young man, said that Williams had used vile language to him. without any provocation, and refused to go j away when told, no he dealt him "a I light blow." The incident took plac-e j in a beer booth, but Williams, who was j called as a witness, said he didn't re- I member -anything about it. as by the ! time the sixth race had been rim he j had lost, the whole of his seven senses, j Eyewitnesses of the occurrence stated I I that the accuse 1 landed a heavy j I 'Tight.' , which ser.t his annoyer's head i : back against a "oerr barrel and rendered I him oblivious to all things for several ; minutes. Both men were nrrested ami i Williams lind U> receive medical at- , tention nt the lock-up. Observing that the accused should have given his annoyer in charge instead of taking the law into his own hands, the Magistrate- fined him r>o' and costs. , CHARGE OF INCEST. Harry (iibb. a man 6S years of age. was charged with the crime of incest : with his daughter Elizabeth. In applying for a week's remand, the Chief Detective opposed bail, stating that if the accused were released he ; might go back horn? to Churchill nnd ■ intimidate his family. It wa- stated by" the arresting con- ! stable that t ho daughter concerned was 38 yetfrs of age and said to be weak' mentally. I The Magistrate: Tie has a riffht to bail. ' Aroused was remanded to appear at i Pukekohe Police Court on January 4. hail being fixed at i:,(V).