POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 11

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) DISORDERLY CONDUCT. For being disorderly 'while drunk in Vincent Street last night Edward Ireland (36) pleaded guilty and was fined £5, or three days. The sub-inspector said that Ireland had an argument with a woman, who was also arrested for drunkenness. It : was alleged that he caught hold of her i and threw her down. FAILED TO PAY HIS FARE. Reuben Charles Holloway (39), who wore a bandage round his head, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in ; Symonds Street, and also to another of ! failing to pay his tram fare to the conductor when requested. According to Sub-inspector Lewin accused had the money with which to pay, but he refused. Mr. Singer, who appeared for Holloway, said that accused did not remember anything of the episode, for he had met with an accident. Holloway was mulcted 5/, or 24 hours, 1 for being drunk, and 10/, or 48 hours, on the other charge., REMANDED TILL MONDAY. James Docherty (40), for whom Mr. Singer appeared, and William Wright (52) were each remanded to appear on Monday. Docherty was charged with being a i rogue and vagabond in that he was I found by night, without lawful excuse, lin possession of a cold chisel, an implei ment of housebreaking, while Wright was deemed also to be a rogue and a vagabond with insufficient lawful means of support. Both were arrested at twenty-minutes to two this morning, so the police said. STOLE A FENCING POST. In a casj where a young married man with four young children pleaded guilty |to stealing a fencing post, valued at 5/, | Mr. Hunt convicted and discharged acI cused and alsc suppressed his name, as, he stated, publicity might cause hardj ship to his family. j The police stated that for some time I past the owner of a section in Point , Chevalier had been losing timber from 1 a house which was in course of erection. Accused, who lived opposite, was suspected, and on being interviewed about the matter admitted taking the post. Accused explained that he thought that the post was an old one, so he took it for firewood, but the arresting constable said'that this was not so. The post had been taken out of a fence. The complainant then came forward and asked the magistrate not to inflict I a penalty owing to the poorness of I accused's family. Mr. Hunt agreed to do this, but warned , accused chat if he came into Court again he would be more severely dealt with.