POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 299, 15 December 1923, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, 5.M..) THEN HE WOKE TJP. Just as George Harrison (59) stepped into the dock charged with a second offence of drunkenness one of those dreamy individuals, who frequent the back of the Court through sheer curij osity, strolled in with his hat on his , head. All oblivious of his flagrant ; breach of Court etiquette he sat there with his hat on, till the strident tones of the orderly, "Take your hat off." made him sit up with a jump and doff ! the top-piece. But Harrison thought ! the orderly was addressing him and he j complained in injured tones to the effect that, ".Me hat is off. Cant ver see?" He got £2 or three days.

PULLED HIS COAT OFF. A soldierly-iooking man, William Doyle (39), a seaman, didn't remember committing an indecent act, using obscene, language and resisting Constable Cavayc. But the constable remembered all about it. and told the magistrate what Doyle bad said, and how be had peeled off his coat and offered fight. His Worship said things about not wanting Doyle in Xew Zealand, and as his boat was due to sail soon he would not be sent to Mount Eden. Instead he would pay £5 into the public account, and the sooner he disappeared the better. TOOK UMBRAGE. The use of obscene language in Queen Street yesterday afternoon resulted in the appearance of Albert Edward Howlett (20), v.ho said nasty things to a tram conductor when ejected from a car because he was about half drunk. '"It's disgusting to think that a youngster would use words like this," remarked Mr. Poynton, S.M., as he imposed a fine of £,">. witness' expenses 10/, in default one month on the hill.