POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 224, 22 September 1925, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.)

NOT A LEANING POST

Sydney Murfitt (29), was charged with damaging a pane of glass valued at £1, the property of the Zenith Appliance Company, , He said that he did not mean to break the window. He merely leant against it. , Mr. Povnton told accused that he must not take "a window for a leaning post. The case was adjourned for a few days to give Murfitt an opportunity of payinf for a new pane of glass. A DRUNKEN HORSEMAN. A middle-aged man, for whom Mr. J. J. Sullivan appeared, pleaded guilty to a'charge of having been drunk while in charge of a horse in Kitchener Street, Takapuna, yesterday afternoon. Senior Sergeant Edwards, said that the horse bolted from accused, who endeavoured to catch it. In fining accused £2, the magistrate remarked that the case was not a serious one. Accused's name was ordered to be suppressed. POSED AS A MAN OF MEANS. "This youiig man. has been in the Henderson district lately, posing as a tuan of means and endeavouring to buy a £arm. He has no means at all." The senior sergeant was referring to John Edward Calvert (23), who had pleaded guilty to a charge deeming him to be an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support. Other charges were pending. I On the the vagrancy charge, Calvert was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. PROBATION AN AMUSEMENT. A young man named Tracy Harold Banks admitted that he had failed to comply with tbe terms and conditions of bis release on probation. The Probation Officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, said that Banks, who was only 20, was convicted and admitted to two years' probation in April last for the theft of £16. He was talso ordered to make restitution of that amount, but so far had not done so. He only reported himself once after his release and even when spoken to by the assistant probation officer, one day in Newton, he failed to heed to warning. Instead he cleared out and the police had been looking for him. He was at present working on a farm at Runciman. Mr. Poynton: Probation is a sort of amusement with you, Banks. Are you going to defy the Probation Officer and the law and deprive the people of the money which you stole from them? Banks: No* sir. I am only getting £1 5/ per week, but I have £5 saved up. Mr. Povnton: Wei., if you are not more careful you will find yourself up in Mount Eden. Your probation will be extended another year and you will also have to pay the £5 forthwith. THEFT OF VANITY CASE. The theft of a vanity case valued at 19/0 was preferred against William James Hart (46), who pleaded guilty. , Chief Detective Cummings said that accused found the vanity case amongst some papers which he was sorting through in a local institution. Instead of handing the case to the manager, accused kept it and sold it for 1/0. His excuse was that he wanted the money to par his car fare to Dominion Road. Accused had previously been convicted of dishonesty. He was sent to gaol for seven days.