POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 103, 4 May 1925, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

'j ißefore Mr. ,T. W. Poynton. S.M., and j j Mr. T. (itibb, J.P.) DISORDERLY CONDUCT. An unusually large number paraded this morning on charge- of disorderly conduct while drunk. In most cases the men arrested were shouting and making ' general nuisances of themselves in the | city's streets. The following were each lined 11. in default seven days' impris nment:— Archibald Hrvden. (leorge I'ovle. Patrick O'Callaghan. John Peris! Frederick Bradbiirn, Arnold Campbell Bennett. ' John Ttiohey. and Charles Mcl.oahan. The las;-named was also charged with throwing K . a „ s „,. t h e fool, nth. He stated that he usually "danced around! a bit" when drunk. 'During such con- j - duet a bottle of lieer must have fallen j from his pocket. (>n this charge he was! - convicted and discharged. i j CHEAPER IN THAN OUT. j . (loot-go L. Arnold i-l'il appeared on a , charge of being deemed an idle and disorderly person, with insullicient means . of support. He pleaded guilty. [ Senior Sergeant Kdwards staled tnnt Arnold hud recently been before tlie . Court, when he was remanded for mcdi- ; cal examination. Although not bad enough for the Mental Hospital, bo was not quite normal, lie had been ordered > to come up fur sentence within twelve . months, provided he remained in the . Salvation Army's Home for the lirst si\ , months. Hut 'he would not stay there, i and had lately been sleeping out on the r reclamation ground at Freeman's Hay. Mr. Poynton, in sentencing Arnold to f three months, remarked Cut it was . cheaper to keep him in than out. DAMAGED MOTOR CAR. For his fourth offence for drunken- , ness within the statutory period of six , mouths. William Church i-ili was sen- _ tenced to one month's imprisonment. ,■ He was also ordered to pay £1 for the I damage he cans,si to a motor car when t j being convoyed lo the lock-up. 1 RACECOURSE THEFT. ' While at the trots on Saturday Detectives u'linen and V, Into ~; ~.,-,..',| j Thi- llloiuilt' I.Uploll j ;.., !,.,] gllilly . STOLE CARPFIi'TFR'S TOOLS. 'I _-\ 1' lian. I la-id Ma', ,tisi, pleaded " and a quantity of ca-'pr-ni.-r's t ids. ) valued al £1 i.y. He had nothing to i, bay for hiniscf. n Chief Detective Cummings sai.l that «' accused had stolen t'ne tools, and had s j had been up before the I oiirl before, ij lie was sentence! ~, underpin ~m , I month's detention iv Mount Eden.