POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 4 March 1926, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

. » . (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) A COWARDLY ASSAULT. The case against the Maori, Tom [ Wiki (32) was concluded this morning. I Wiki was charged with assaulting Otto Berjrt.39oll and Frank Hunt. On Tuesday Bergtsson gave evidence, and stated that Wiki grabbed him by the throat, while I he also knocked Hunt senseless. Neither man had given accused any provocation. Hunt, who appeared in Court this niorn--1 ing. with a bandage over his right eye, ' said that he was struck and fell down. ' The man who assaulted him then "put • the leather in." He could not say whether ' Wiki was the man who assaulted him or 1 not. 5 Observing that the assault was a v cowardly one, Mr. Poynton sent accused 5 to gaol for two months for assaulting Hunt. On the other charge he was conj victed and discharged. STOLE A WATCH. J On arrival of the steamer Kaikorai from Newcastle yesterday. Detective • Knight saw Sigrid Wilhelni Kihl Larsen (20) about a watch which had been ~ stolen from another man on the ship some time previously. As the result of this interview Larsen admitted ti> tindetective that he had stolen the watch. . and had pledged it with a pawnbroker j, for £1. Accused pleaded guilty to the I theft of the watch, which was valued [ at £-5. ; Chief Detective Cumminga said that y nothing was previously known againat [ accused. , Larsen was fined £n, and was ordered to pay the pawnbroker the sum of £1. THEFT OF OVERCOAT. [ The theft of an overcoat valued at £-3, i the property of the Xew Zealand ! Shipping Company, was admitted by ■ George Claphane (43), for whom Mr. j. . J. Sullivan appeared. i Detective Knight said that at 0.00 last.! ■ night a Customs officer stopped accused I , as he was coming down a ship's gangway. i The coat was found on accused, who was i a waterside worker. The coat wa~ parti I of the cargo that was being worked, and I '. was quite new. | Mr. Sullivan: Do you know that it is j , a fact tli£* accused has been working i on the wharf for the past 20 years r—l understand so. ) Has he ever been in trouble before?- — i I cannot find out anything against him. Claphane was convicted and fined £.3. ABOUT A RACING CALENDAR. George Smith Ormiston (33) appeared • charged with obtaining from Louisa Kirk, with intent to defraud, the Mini of £3 by falsely representing that he was! , publishing a racing and trotting date I calendar for the season 102.5-1 «)2(>. and ! which was to be hung in hotels and boardinghouses. Detective Knight, who had the inquiry, said that the guide . had not yet been published. Chief Detective Cumtuings, in asking ■ for a week's remand, said that accused thought he could repay the money in the meantime. Mr. Poynton: Oh. well, if he can do that, so much the belter.