POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 175, 25 July 1924, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. K. gn-t w[ DISORDERLY WHUg jL I t T W ° f A,°v Uns men - L «onaid lul John Gilbert, each pleaZ charge of disorderly «§*Sl« .n Customs Street vesW whom the police sa ? d *f.]j| ohender, was fined £2 while Gilbert was fined V^β ASSAULTED HI S § Charged with unlawful ■ Elizabeth Mason last eveZ McKeon (32) pleadedI ?|S1 V provocation." Elizabeth **>)s£? evidence, said that she *,: VißN 1 and conducted a boarding 1 10 . eased boarded in th night he was di,c USsin ° «« other boarders. Hoivcvr ''#" later he asked her for W* and on witness declinis* \;., struck her. a ™ te fe»>g Mr. Hunt: Xow, what hare *, Sh to .say about it? """« P>a r Mffc Accused: I was a hit -jii Hr^ time; we had several ar^* have always done my beat HEi Mr. Hunt: Wei], what do jo 5 Jp to_stnke a woman for? Yoa^^ftk FERRY BOAT EPISODE. On the way over from tjl_ l;Ue last night the master oftt e £ steamer Peregrine, Captain B^ hun and then struck the mariner on"* face, knocking his liat into li e hS As a Bcqunl Thomas Ogier (24) n Z before the Magistrate on a cW. I assaulting \V. L. Bishop. p . After evidence had been given «* who had little to cay, was fined fl> default 14 days, aiid ordered to-inft expenses of two witnesses. COSTLY OVERSIGHTS. KP "They say that if you htibK' pennies they will grow "into posslSbut in this case by gating the rSc the pounds are spent," said Mr!&B» in imposing a fine of £2, and co'stisKp on Frederick Walter Watson, fo t fcßp' I infr to stamp a receipt-of over H R.I I Florence Sleeman and John BaalJßf clay -were also each fined £2, andHißP 1 for failing to stamp Teceipts. W : '^ UNLICENSED RADIO SETS. |" '] For erecting radio sets in accordance with a license granWtli* them in that behalf by the iEmste r y Telegraphs, G. E. Mills and W.I s|« , Grove were each convicted and oriraß Jto pay costs 9/. For a similar-ifeßs J. E. Flelt was convicted and vM charged. I A FALSE DOCUMENT. I J For presenting to aa officer in -jK ~ tion to tlip. War Pensions Act, a fc-Bg ment which was false in an inpofoßl I particular, Charles L. Reeves (kii Senior 'Sergeant Eawle saH !'-B defendant Lad declared when api'cife , pension form that he had not woraK"'" the previous month, wijereajiß had been employed by a H&ool I:m> niittee as an ornamental gardemr._,H Defendant explained that be tad; Bβ knowledge that he was doing mojf.H The Registrar of Pensions stated tit H the Department did not press k\ H penalty, but simply wanted to raH others* of the danger of supplyingiii statements. I I Defendant was conricted and el charged. I A REPRIEVE. I The younj lady, Margaret Bs«e charged" last Friday with being 6 owner of a dog that did attack Eb Iβ Curtis, and who was fined £1 V^B ordered to destroy the do;:, will if X f now have to carry out the supre=p 'penalty. I . This morning Mr. Hall Skeltonsi-g cessiuliy applied for a rehearing , of ib R case. He stated that since the as j last week Mise Brown had kept tbcdSffi within a strong wire barrier, while s!»g had also fitted it with a muzzle. Afwß assuring the magistrate that shewing not allow thn dog out unless itwasoJH the other end of a stout date, cm*■ applied for the cancellation of tieoimß made by 3lr. Poynton that *■>*;**■ should be destroyed. In rapport"■ his contention that the dog, an AnMW, ■ IS months old, was a ?ood mc, *• I Hall Skelton handed up its pcdigWte| ■ the magistrate. ~ I i Mr. Hunt: Yes. it is a good do?,»' | 'it is a dangerous one. I suppose oneoi g these days the butcher or the I will be bitten. .. H i iSenior Sergeant Eawle said ttot w | do- is question had attacked ite* | persons, and in one case a lady ua* b2 attended to by a doctor. It n> only when a policemen went to <P», dan't's house to see the dog desm?" that the rehearing was mentionei. I 3lr. Skelton: Yes, that's so, thej* ; Iwere there to pay their last Mr. Hunt said that since the dogw being kept in confinement andfdt a muzzle Ton he would cancel the oflW for the dog's destruction. i THEFT FROM ROOM HATE- !\ middle-aged man, Georje alias Thomas Sims, pleaded not g at the Police Court this monung w> chafed with stealinsSDA and »t» valued, at o/= tUo property of Pcariman. ~ Pearlman stated that on m Q of Friday, July 18, accued «jj. bed in the same ropm as *itnW iGrev Street boardinghouse. TV«b ! ness retired to bed there ** . • £2 0/ in his trouseis pocket,^Jβ ing, and he had left early. Constable White said «« accused was arrested the stolen r^ ■ was found in his * ness Pearlman was able to ldentuy ■ razor. .. , c 30 prfi' Harrison, who had .*£*J * vioud convictions lor iaji« . was sonteuced to olia m I labour. _