POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., and Mr. A. J. Stratford, J.P.) HELPLESS DRUNKENNESS. "It ia difficult to know what to do with this man; he isn't wanted by his people, and he won't stay with the Salvation Army," said Servant "I i.well o. Alexander Mellis (Gl), who appeared on a charge of helpless drunkenness. Accused had a long list of previous convictions. He was convict ;d, and ordere,! |ti pay £1 R/ medical expenses, ln default seven days' imprisonment. SUMMONS CASES. "Maurice Costello, who was found on tl". i-temises of the British Hotel after hours, was convicted and fined £2 and cost*, 0/. For selling an airirun to a boy of eight ;. ears, Winifred Holland was fined •0/ sr.d costs. A. Herbert was fined £3, and costs 10/, for ill-treating a dog by failing to provide proper shelter. TRESPASSED ON RACECOURSE. A coloured man named George Bottles pleaded guilty to trespassing on the I Ellerslie Racecourse on June 11. j Chief Detective Cummings read out a number of previous convictions against i the accused, who was excluded from attending race meetings. He was the man who once robbed the poor-boxes. ] Bottles whs convfcted, and fined £10. | Time in which to pay the fine was rei fused. ! ALLEGED FRAUD. I On a charge of incurring a debt with H. Butcher Furniture and Carpet Company, and obtaining credit by fraud, I William Murray (35) was remanded to ! appear on July 3. ! Mr. Wallace, for accused, asked fur I bail, which was granted in the sum of j £100. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Two men, Eric Jones (24) and David Thomas McGavin. alias James Corbett '. (47), were each charged with assaulting and robbing Joseph .T. Carr of £2. On the application of the chief detective. ,' lioth were remanded to appear on July 3. REMANDED. • \ younsr man John Lawrcnre Shearer, . who wa-s yesterday arrested by Detective . Walsh, of Wellington appeared in i n„ wer to -i charge of obtaining £10 by false pretences from a man in Adelaide , on March 25 last. Mr Biernacki, who appeared for ac- '' cu'sed". asked for bail. Chief Detective ; Cummins said that if bail was granted ; it should he substantial, as Shearer had been difficult to find, and that other ' charges were pending. He was allowed hail. £-i™. and re- ; mantled to appear at Wellington on July