POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) -, GAOL FOR OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Murdo McLeod (26) a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in a restaurant yesterday. Sergeant Calwell said that several complaints had been made recently about i the use of bad language in dining rooms. c Mr. Poynton said that the language f used was of a filthy order. Accused <; was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, j A charge of using obscene language < as well as another of being disorderly < while drunk was preferred against James Sadler (42). f To the latter charge he pleaded • guilty, but in respect of the first he said he did not remember anything about it. , Constable Davis said that accused was put out of the Star Hot-el in Newton , yesterday by the porter. He aimed a " blow with a beer bottle at the porter, and when arrested made use of obscene language. ' Sergeant Calwell said that Sadler, who was before the Court yesterday for ' drunkenness, had a fair number of convictions, including one for obscene language. He was also consigned to Mount Eden for one week, on the charge of using obscene language. "Can't you make it a fine?" asked Sadler. Mr. Poynton: No, you have been fined before. • ' THEFT BY YOUNG WOMAN. A young woman named Violet Brunning, for whom Mr. E. A. Singer (instructed by Mr. Waddingham) appeared, entered a plea of guilty to two charges of theft—stealing £1, the property of Ethel May Martin, and 2/ belonging to Maude McDonald. Chief Detective Cummings said that accused, who was only 25, commenced work at 8 a.m. yesterday in a tearoom. Some time later she went into a dressing room and stole the money. Accused had served sentences of six months, 14 days and 14 days. alsc : one of six months' hard labour in New South Wales for theft while she had also been sentenced to six months for theft in New Zealand. Mr. Singer said that accused was not mentally in order. Would the magistrate give her a chance and place her on probation? She had never been on proba- j iton before, and her mother was prepared j to take her away to the countfy. i Mr. Poynton: To give probation in this j case would only be reducing it to a I laughing stock. Accused has had chances ' before. She will receive one month's j imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative. A SERIOUS CHARGE. A woman of 36, whose name was ordered to be suppressed in the meantime and for whom Mr. E. A. Singer appeared, was remanded to appear on August 21. on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure abortion. Bail, in the sum of £200 was granted. '