POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) WIN FOR THE LANDLADY. He was angry because he went to his lodginghouse to find that the landlady had put his belongings out in the passage •before his week was up, and he could not get a change of clothes from his working suit, explained James Welsh (55), when charged with having been disorderly while drunk in Wakefield Street yesterday evening. Welsh did not deny that probably his annoyance was inflamed to some extent by drink, which led him to make his protest more violent, public, and indiscreet than it otherwise might have been. He was fined 20/. MISSED THE SYDNEY TRIP. The man who had been taken off the s.s. Manuka after that boat had got started on the trip to Sydney yesterday, Joseph Henry Anstiss, a rather stolidlooking individual of 50 years, was, charged that, being in arrears with a maintenance order for the support of his wife at Hamilton, he attempted to leave New Zealand without permission of a magistrate. In applying for a remand to Hamilton the Chief -Detective mentioned that Anstiss had on him a bank draft for £80. Defendant was remanded to appear at Hamilton on Monday. REMANDED CASES. David Cameron Stewart (23) was remanded till Friday on three charges of breaking and entering and theft. A lad of 18 years, charged that be had stolen £90, the property of the Union Steamship Co., was remanded till TbursOn a charge of- being a person with insufficient lawful means of support, Mati Borich '(39), a Dalmatian, was remanded for medical observation. DEALING WITH DEAD MARINES. Dan Malonc, through his solicitor, entered a plea that he was too ill to appear, and a denial of a by-law charge that lie'had thrown glass on the street. The glass in question started from a third storey window of the Waverley Hotel, in the form of an empty beer bottle and a discarded wine bottle, both of which had crashed and shivered on the footpath of the railway entrance — time, half an hour after midnight on Thursday. A taxi man on the street noted the window from which the second bottle came, and a police sergeant gained entrance to the building, to find that the room was booked up to one Dan Malone, but no answer came to his summons to, open the locked door. At 6.30 a.m. a constable called and knocked Dan up. getting a statement that he had retired to rest between 10.30 and 11 p.m. the previous day, and a denial of having thrown any bottles from the window of his room. Dan, said the constable, was "suffering from the effects" when interviewed, and a third constable who came to serve a summons on the occupant of Room No. 9 identified Dan as a man he had spoken to the previous evening near, the hotel, on account of his intoxicated condition, when the time was 11.30 p.m. In the face of this series of circumstances, Mr. R. Scott's argument that the bottles might liave come from any one of the i 22 other windows of the hotel that faced that way, fell lightly and without effect. His-Worship held that Dan Malone was the person who had handled the "dead marines" with careless irreverence, and fined liim 40/-, and 21/- costs.