POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 June 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

■i— ii-. —„ » i (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) ALLEGED DIGAMY. That having married a woman at Auckland on January 5, 1914, he did go through a .form of marriage with another woman on May 15, 1922, thereby committing bigamy, was the charge preferred against William Arthur Perry, (31), for whom Mr. McNab appeared. On the application of Chief-Detective Mcllveney accused was remanded till July 2. A STREET PEST. Two charges of being an idle and disorderly person were preferred against Annie Hartley (46), a woman with a list of offences which started off with neglect of her children and traversed nearly the whole gamut of a dissolute's' misdeeds. Constables gave evidence that Annie was never known to do any honest toil, and she was repeatedly seen in the company of women of the streets. She and another had been seen in Customs Street accosting native seamen. Despite police warnings she continued to hang around hotels. "Three months!" said his Worship. "Three months!" echoed Annie, in the tone of one wno has been there before and knows all about it. "DRTTNKS" AND OTHERS. George Robertson (43), who had taken a drop too much for the second time in six months, earned the choice of paying 40/, pjus a consideration for the cabman, or doing a freeze in the old grey gaol for a few days. Edith Pownall (41), answered to the following description, as- stated by Senior-Sergeant Rawle: "Sunday drunk, fourth offender within six months, 39th appearance!" j Edith had nothing to say and was sent' to the women's ward for seven days. John Joseph Roche (43), who had been hanging around the town without a job for far too long to be popular with the police, was sent up for three months. He came under direct observa- i tion of the police by reason of the disappearance of a purse containing £18, this having been abstracted from the pocket of a sleeping man, with whom accused bad been seen earlier in the day. Henry Spence (59), who begged the Magistrate not to publish his name, only to learn that his Worship was not a publisher, was fined £3, with expenses | £3, for wilful exposure. Christopher Stafford (56), and James McArthur ] (21), who were found fighting in Fort Street, were each fined 20/. For being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart, Frank Powley (48), was fined 40/. SERIES OF REMANDS. Frederick Thomas Kelly May (19) was remanded till July 2 on charges of having forged and uttered a cheque for £7 at Tuakau. A remand to the same date was granted in the case of David Hornell (32), charged that on June 21, at Auckland, he did steal a carpenter's kit bag of tools and clothing, to a total value of £19. A SERIOUS CHARGE. Angus Taylor (29) was remanded till July 2 on a charge of having committed rape at Otahuhu on a girl aged 19. Bail was allowed in one surety of £500. ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING. That he did break and enter the dwelling of John James O'Meara on June 14 by day, and steal therefrom £17 in mone.> and a coat valued at £2 10/, was the charge preferred against Alfred Norman O'Meara (26), who was remanded till July 2.