POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

■ m (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) AMONG THE DOWN AND OUTS. Among the file of down and outs who followed each other into the dock to plead guilty to drunkenness was Margaret \\ ilkie, bowed low under the weight ot her 75 years. She got drunk at Newmarket yesterday, this being the second occasion within the six months. "An old offender in more ways than one, your Worship. This is her 141 st appearance." Mr. Poynton, S.M.: I see. Fined 40/-. or three days, A TRAVELLER'S COAT. Walter Wall is 122), for whom Mr. Butler appeared, pleaded guilty to the theft of an overcoat, valued at £o. On November 10 he removed the coat from a railway carriage rack, and subsequently endeavoured to soli it. remarking to one" acquaintance that "it is too good for mc." Subsequently he disposed of it to a dealer. Counsel pleaded for leniency, on the grounds that accused was a respectable seafaring young man. "It's a rule of mine that men who steal travellers' luggage go to gaol. It's mean, due month!" replied! the magistrate. " A FAIR SCRAP. "It seems to have been a fair scrap," | said Mr. Ainu Moody, when Victor Pai - I sons and John Frederick Telford were 'charged with threatening behaviour in I Richmond Avenue. After hearing the i evidence, his Worship renin iked that ; Telford seemed lo have been set on by tlie other man. Parsons, and be would be l convicted and discharged. Parsons, the aggressor, would be fined £3. OUT AND IN AGAIN. "This is serious. Yon are fined the ! maximum amount-, £10. in default one | month." said Mr. Poynton. S.M.. when I William Oliiver. a prisoner, pleaded ! guilty to having attempted to carry ' letters out of Mount Eden prison on j April 5. Principal Warder Glynn stated : that Oliiver was being discharged this ! morning after serving a short term for : assault. According to custom lie was searched, and three letters were found lin which prisoners wrote asking friends 'to plant "money and other stuff" near : the gaol for them. Sin.'c Oliiver bad uo ' money he had to go back to Mount Eden a train. McKENNA-S MISTAKE. • "A mean theft. Two months!" was | the only remark made by his Worship j a'Ter bearing the evidence on a charge of j the.ft preferred against Torrance .lohn I McKenna (211, who was represented by , Mr. Qunrtley. It was shown that Mc- | Kenna had been accused of theft by a j woman who resided in the same house. j When approached by detectives ,he verbally admitted the theft, but | refused to make a written statement. I He had a record, and was still on a proi bationary license. Mr. Quartley subI mitten that there was no evidence to j convict. It was simply a case of ariving I a dog a bad name.