POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 8 December 1925, Page 8

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) A WINDOW-SMASHER. A horny-handed son of toil, Douglas Hamilton Rodgers, who works in the stokehold of the overseas ship Tekoa, must have been feeling really well yesterday when he came ashore, clad only in a pair of trousers, a singlet, plus the inevitable sweat-rag. After visiting a | hotel he made his way to an under - | ground convenience in Customs Street. Probably feeling a little bored with tilings .generally, by way of a diversion he put his fist through two glass windows. Rodgers had nothing to say this morning when the magistrate convicted and discharged him for drunkenness and ordered him, to pay 7/, the amount of damage done to tbe windows, as well as costs, 13/0. j THEFT OF A SHIRT. I Another seafaring man, John Hayes, of the Devon, for whom Mr. Holmden appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a shirt valued at 13/6, the property of John Joseph Ross. s Detective McHugh stated that when the Devon arrived at Auckland a few days a number dtf free labourers were paid off. Some of the striking seamen went aboard and raided the free labourers' personal property; Later, it was found that Ross' shirt had been given to another seaman by accused. Mr. Holmden: You did not see the raiding on the Devon ?—No. You did not see Hayes on board? — No. .'" -..' .;■ -v , ■ John Joseph Ross said- he was ashore when the free labourers' belongings' were raided. He lost about £14: worth of property, while others.on board lost a fair quantity. "'.-■''" ' - Accused, in evidence, stated- that he saw the shirt on the foredeck and thought that it had been bjft by one of the free labourers who did not want it. : "'.'"■'' . < ' Chief Detective Cummings: As long as accused pays for a new shirt, that's all we want. He can get a job on the Devon. We would be pleased to get rid of him. * Hayes was ordered' to pay 13/9 for a new shirt and to come up for sentence when called upon.