POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

• (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) , ( YOUNG MAN REMANDED. < George Clark (23) was remanded to ap- ' pear at Napier on June 1. on a charge ' of obtaining from R. E. Brooke, at J Napier, clothing to the value of £11 9/, by representing that he was employed by a local racehorse owner. Bail was : allowed in one surety of £200. Sydney Alfred Bennett, alias Lockwood (22), the young man who grinned ' so much yesterday when he was ordered to provide maintenance for his wife and child, who " could not live on air;' ap- ] parently did not take any more seriously ■ a charge of stealing £1 4/8 at Welling- - ton, on September 20. He grinned again, and was remanded till June 1. A "WANTED MAN." Edward George Hayes, alias Burns (35), was stated by .Senior Detective (Ximmings to be a wanted man. In asking for a remand till June 1 on a charge of failing to provide maintenance for his wife and children, and persistent cruelty towards the wife, the Senior-detective said Hayes was required for breaches of probation, and warrants had been issued in Australia. Accused had cleared out from Napier some time ago, when he was given probation. Mr. Blakey opposed the application for a remand, but his objection was not allowed. TOO MANY " FARES/ Two prosecutions were brought by the Collector of Customs (Mr. J. P. Ridings) ' against Arthur Eden Patterson, master |of an oil-cngincd vessel, Wynoma, for I carrying from Brown's Ray a number of j passengers in excess of the regulation j figure. Mr. Alan Moody stated that the master had to suiter for the selfisnncss of the* passengers, who crowded on hoard the vessel and would not leave. In future, defendant would not leave tlie jetty unless all the extra passengers left the vessel. Remarking that overcrowding on small vessels was a public danger, his Worship fined defendant £3 for carrying six passengers in excess of the regulation number on January 30, and a fine of £5 was imposed for carrying 21 I persons in excess on March 11. THE BLACK SMOKE. Charges of permitting the smoking of opium at 41 Grey Street, on May 18, and having opium suitable for smoking In his possession at that address on May 19, j were preferred against Wong Chuck, or ■ Charlie Chuck. That he was found m possession of opium suitable for smoking j'was a charge also preferred against Ah Tong, the three informations being laid by the Collector of Customs. Mr. Scott I appeared on behalf of accused, and the ! case was adjourned for a week. i A "DOUBLE" CHART. I For publishing a " double" chart on 1 races run at Takapuna on January 27, Frederick Howard (24) was fined £20. j Senior Detective Cummings stated that accused had been acquitted at the SuI preme Court on a charge of book- ! making. Mr. Blakey said Howard was a poor man with a family, and lie had '■ made very small bets. His Worship observed that the law did not provide for j imprisonment in such a case, and the penalty, therefore, had to be a fine. He ' could not make it a light one. The de--1 fault was fixed at one month's imprisonI ment. j YIELDED TO TEMPTATION. * I " This is evidently a case of a young [ man in financial difficulties yielding to , temptation," remarked Mr. Poynton, | S.M., in admitting Douglas Lees (27) to • probation for a period of two years on i a charge of having stolen £10, the pro- ■ perty of Julian Anderson. It wa3 shown : that Anderson had gone to accused, who , was then a storekeeper, and had asked 6 him to cash a cheque for £20. Accused j ~_ had taken the cheque to a Queen Street I f jeweller, who had handed him £10, say--1 ing that 'ie could not spare any more cash at the time. Anderson received ' the £10, tout accused went back to the . I jeweller later, and asked for the balance i of £10. The jeweller gave him £5 10/, J keeping back £4 10/ in respect of a ! cheque from accused for that amount i I that had been dishonoured. Subsej quently accused was unable to give " | Anderson the £10, owing to business 3 difficulties. Accused, who was represented by Mr. J. J. Butler, was ordered to make restitution at the discretion of ? the probation officer.