POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 5 May 1926, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) ANOTHER CHANCE GIVEN. On March 22, Daniel Perry (49), was before the Court on a charge of being I an idle and disorderly person with insuf- ■ I flcient means of support. On that occaI sion he was given a chance on condition that he secured work. However, when accused appeared thia I morning on the original charge, Chief . Detective Cummings stated that Perry had not obtained work, and had been : sleeping out at nights. Men must be • stopped from sleeping out, as several , fires had been caused lately as the result of men sleeping in buildings. Perry was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, on condition that he went to the Salvation Army's home until he could get a job. "If you are caught sleeping out again I will send you to another place to sleep," said Mr. Hunt. REMANDED. William Charles Warwick (27), wae remanded until May 13 on a charge of stealing the sum of £1, the property of the Royal Motor Bus Company. Bail, in one surety of £20, was granted. I HIS CHARACTER SAVED HIM. [ "Your character saves you, you are i convicted and discharged," said the magistrate to Frank Henry Pearse (34), ;■ who was charged with the theft of a ; table, cupboard, wire netting, and a t i piece of timber, valued at £3, the pro- ■ perty of Sydney Howard Wilding. The chief detective stated that accused f had been renting a house which was i partly furnished, but he had got into ! difficulties with the rent. On leaving Pearse took the articles enumerated ■ with him. Accused was a married man 3 with three young children, and said that j he took the table so that his children > I might have something to eat their food r from. Pearse was a hard-working man. \ ABOUT A SAXOPHONE. On a charge of stealing a saxophone' valued at £43, the property of Lewis R. ' Eady and Son, Ltd., Harold Gordon > j Stanley Woolf (28) was, on the application of the chief detective, remanded , to appear on May 13. t LANGUAGE IN A TRAM CAR. A charge of having used obscene lanr guage in a tram car in Pitt Street yes- | terday was preferred against Thomas 1 j Harrison (33), who pleaded guilty. c j Sergeant Miller said that at C.lo p.m. 3 j yesterday, when accused was a passen- • ger in a tram car, the conductor asked him for his fare, when Harrison made 5 use of the language to the conductor. • Mr. Schramm, who appeared for accused, stated that his client was a married man and had never before been in trouble. He was drunk when he made 1 use of the language. c "I've seen men get three months for - language like this," said Mr. Hunt, in i imposing a fine of £5 or 14 days' impri- • sonment.