POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) THOUGHT XT A JOKE. "This man was arguing in the street and became excited and hit Wm. Brown, at the same time using the worde complained of," said Sub-Inspector Till, when Tobias Johns (39) was charged with assault and the use of obscene language. Mr. Singer's version of the affair was somewhat different. "This man said he was an Australian, and he compared himself adjectivally with a New Zealander. When he used the words the only persona present were his t»wn countrymen." The magistrate asked' if Brown was hurt. "5S r o, I wasn't hurt," grinned Brows, coming forward "Aβ a matter of fact I thought it a good joke." 'It's just a pity that the constable happened along at the moment," said Mr. Singer. Accused was convicted on both charges, and ordered to pay £3 for using obscene language. There were 10/ expenses on the first charge, which Brown had the option of collecting. OH, WHAT A FACIEI "How did you get like that?" was the magistrate's query when Samuel Walker, an unkempt man stepped into the dock with his face bruised and battered. "He was like that when I picked him up," eaid a young constable. "He had been drinking, methylated- spirits." The magistrate observed that Walker might contract tetanus if he were not medically attended. Seven days in the old grey pile would do him a world of good. CONCERNING A PASSPORT. Mich. Povlovich (43), a shabby man with a week* etubble on his chin, was remanded till August 9 on a charge of having forged a name to a receipt for a passport, causing an official to act upon it as if it were genuine. Mr. Singer asked for bail, and this was granted in a surety of £100. MOTORISTS FIXED. Eric Lichtenstein (Mr. Ziman) was fined £5 for dangerous driving. The charge arose out of the accident in Queen Street, just above Wellesley Street, when defendant's car knocked down a returned soldier, with a stiff leg. The pedestrian was crossing the street from the pavement with the object of bearding a tram when the car etruck him. A constable stated in evidence that defendant was racing the tram between the stops. The magistrate held that defendant was not sufficiently careful. The fact that visibility was poor on a wet night only gave cause for greater care on the part of I motorists;

On a charge of failing to stop his car when an accident occurred, N. K. Porter

was fined £2, with expenses £1/14/.

This charge wae brought owing to a little boy in a trolley having been injured by a passing motor oar. No evidence was adduced that it wag defendant's car.