POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 12

POLICE COURT.

■ ■ (Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) THREW HIS CHANCE AWAY. Consequent upon the influx of upeo tin try visitors for the show there was an extra large "roll call" of those who had imbibed unwisely. Among those who had to pay the piper was James Clarke (41), who 'went and 'did it again." despite the fact that he was prohibited and enjoying liberty on probationary license. Since the leniency of tbe Court had been extended to him Clarice had been convicted of drunkenness, and the Magistrate refused to countenance this second lapse. "He's thrown his chance away," said Mr. Poynton. S.M.. consigning Clarke to the mountain house for one month. Yesterday Edmund Burke made his S.Mrd appearance and was fined 20/This morning lie made his 84th, and the sixth within six months. "Every time 1 come to Auckland I get into j trouble."' groaned Burke, who had "a ijob to go to at Wairamarama at 18/ ] per day."' Tlie Magistrate created a vacancy at the works by sending Burke to swell the Government output of broken metal for a month. Axe! Icborg i"'Hi. who saved the time of the police in hunting up records by having his prohibition order in his pocket, when arrested for drunkenness, was ;.Jso sent to the hill till after Xew *l ear. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Robert John Hood, said to be a competent builder, previously of excellent character, pleaded guilty to a charge of having attempted to commit suicide on December .'. Early iv the morning he made an incision in his wrist, and the wound bled considerably. It was stated Unit Hood's action was induced by mental stress concerning the erection of a house. A conviction was entered, and Hood who was represented by Mr. W. Anderson, was discharged. NEW 'NEWSPAPERS." The firm of Wright, and Jacques was fined £3 on each of three charges of having published '"newspapers" without the name of the printer appearing thereon. Tt was shown that the "newspapers'' were really picture show advertisement pamphlets, but Senior-Sergeant Rawle contended that in law they were newspapers. One was called the -'Thames Movie News," and one paragraph, "When thieves full out the police get credit for efficiency,'" was certainly not an advertisement. Neither, he affirmed, waa the '"Ladies" Column.'* The magistrate, in imposing the fines, stated that £5 was the minimum. The offence was trifling in this case, and no doubt the Minister I would remit two of the three fines if application were made to him and the full facts brought under his notice. i MISCELLANEOUS. The charge of having discharged missiles was admitted by a youth named Lionel Arthur Cooney, who had fired a shot gun at Avondale, with the result that Mrs. S. A. Kemp had been struck by two spent pellets. It was shown that the gun had been fired at long range, without any idea that the pellets would travel so far, and as Mrs. Kemp had not been injured the youth escaped with a line of £2 and costs and a warning to be more careful in future. A. Linwood was I fined £1 and costs for being in possession of an unregistered shotgun. For having interfered with the motor truck of E. Meynell and put the mechanism out of gear, at Point Chevalier, a young bus conductor was fined £2, costs 10/, and ordered to pay 8/ damages.