POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.'Ai.) ] A FISTIC DISCUSSION. '• As a result of a fistic discussion whicfc occurred ill Victoria Street at >-Ar, last evening, two men, Patrick MvXalley (44) and Thomas Uarehbanks (34) were each charged with threatening behaviour, occasioning a breach of the peace. ll<> Xallcy evidently lost tlic fight for his head was swathed in bandages, while Marchbank was not marked. The last named, whom (Senior Sergeant Rawle said was "well known." was convicted and fined £3, in default seven days, and McNalley, who was "slightly known," escaped with a conviction and a fne of £2, in default three days. LEAV2 ME WITH A SMILE." A young maori, Enoka Huia Toroa, ])leaded guilty to having failed to comply with the terms of his release on probation, and also to the original charge of having stolen £10 at Waihi. Mr. W. J. Campbell, probation officer, •said that accused was admitted to probation in March last on the charge of the theft of £10. ISo far lie had" not made an effort to make restitution and had not even reported himself. Air. Poynton: You have had a chance but you laughed at it. Now you will have to go up to Mt. Kden for a month. Toroa (smiling in true Maori style): Thank you, all right. On the original charge he vas remanded to appear at Waihi this day week. GIVEN A CHANCE. "The police report that you have a nice wife and child, but that you are no f fond of work and too fond of drink," said the magistrate to Herbert William McGeehan (2S), who was convicted of attempted theft last week and who came up for sentence. He was given a chance and was placed on probation for three years and ordered to abstain from liquor during that period. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE. When David Cecil Coley (17> pleaded guilty to being an idle and disorderly perron with no visible means of support, fSenior-Sergeant R Rawle remarked that the facts were rather unauaual. At 3.15 this mornnig, when a police sergeant was standing at the corner of Queen and, Rutland streets, he saw Coley. As soon as accused observed the sergeant he bolted down the street as Lard as he could run. However, the sergeant gave chase and won the race. When caught, Coley eaid he had recently been paid off a vessel and during the last two nights he had been sleeping on Western wharf. Mr. Poynton: Where are your parents? Accused: In Palmerston North. Well, will they have you back? —I suppose so. Captain Davis agreed to Ijok after Coley for a few days, and the police withdrew the charge. PROBATION EXTENDED. Up for sentence for the theft of £1 IS/, James Bruce Macown was given a. chance, and placed on probation for a period of two years. A youth of io, Thomas Al!an Lodge, was also leniently dealt with. He 1 pleaded guilty to stealing a cheque book j valued at 4/, and also to two ciiarges of ! obtaining a total of £2 7/0 by false pretences. Detective Knight deposed that Lodge was an assisted immijjrant, ami came from England three years ago. He I had been on a farm at Tamaki, but came ito Auckland about three weeks ago. I Going to a boardinghouse, lie stole the I chequo book from a fellow boarder's attache case, and then issued two cheques. Later he had been arrested when attempting to leave Auckland by train. .Lodge was convicted on the second charge of false pretences, and placed on probation for two years. On the other two charges he was convicted and discharged. I ALLEGED BREAKING AND 1 ENTERING. I Stanley Lawrence George Couch (43), I who pleaded guilty to a charge of break - j ing and entering by day the premises of Sidney Eowbottom, in Grey Street, and stealing £1, was committed to the J Supreme Court for sentence.