POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 August 1926, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

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

TROUBLE OVER A MEAL.

TVilliam Joseph Allen (32) was charged with obtaining credit by fraud to the extent of 1/.

Mark Roglieh, proprietor of a boardinghouse in Hobs.m Street, stated that on Saturday accused called and booked in for tea, bed and breakfast. After Allen had partaken of tea witness asked him fur 5/, stating that he alwaye required payment in advance. Witne-s staled tliat accused then abused him and refused to pay.

Constable Audley. who was called into Roglich"s house, eaid that he found accused in the kitchen. Allen was in a cheeky mood and spat on the stove.

J Allen told the magistrate that had j Roglich allowed him to go out he could i have got ihe money to pay for his meal. He was quite willing to square the whole matter up. Accused added that he worked at I'okeno and came to towii with f^9. j Mr. Poynton, in advising accused to I return to his work in the conutry, ■ordered him to come up for sentence in la week's time and to forward to Roglich !]/ as payment for the meal and fl writj ness' expenses. ! GAVE HIMSELF UP. ''Guilty, sir," said Francie Murphy(6s) lin answer to a charge which deemed him to lie an incorrigible rogue with insuffiI eient means of support. I Senior Sergeant Edwards said that Murphy called at the police station yesterday and stated that he wae absolutely I destitute and homeless and that he had not had any food. Murphy, who had I been before the Court on numerous oeca- j j sions previously, required a good clean ' up. I "Threa months' imprisonment." said ■ the magistrate; "that will bring him into the summer." ROTOROA ESCAPEE CHARGED. "I didn't steal the boat, I only took a luan of it," was the excuse offered by David Bole, alias John Fry (59), in answer to a charge of stealing a boat valued at £12. the property, of the •Salvation Army, and another of conversion of a boat. j Major Holmes, of Rotoroa Inebriates' : Island, stated that accused escaped from j the Island on two occasions in boats which belonged to the Army- On the j first occasion the boat was" recovered. ! When accused was returned to the j I Island he only remained a fortnight, then ' j escaped again. The boat which he left lin was never found. Bole waa arrested iat Gisborne when he was sentenced on a | I charge of escaping from the Island. He! had stated that he had no intention of remaining on the IslandBole stated tiiat when he escaped the last time he pulled the boat up on to a I j sandy beach and attached a note to it : j stating that it belonged to the Salva- ] i tien Army. " j I The magistrate then reduced the theft I ■ charge to one of conversion and sentenced I acc-u>ed to three months' imprisonment on one charge , and to one month on the other, the sentences to be cumulative. ! "1: would have paid you to stay on the | Island," said Mr. Poynton to accused. FURTHER REMANDED. "This woman is still in a bad condition and I would ask for a further remand,"' said the senior sergeant about Mary Smith io2j, who was charged with I having been found by night without lawj ful excuse on the" premises of J. P Molloy. Grey Street. She was remanded until this day week. SERIOUS CHARGES.

Henry Victor Barke (23), for whom Mr. Allan Moody appeared, was charged with having committed an unnatural otfenee on a male, and also with indecently assaulting three boys. After lengthy evidence had "been heard, accused pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed as previously. A tramway conductor. Harry Langton (3S), pleaded not guilty to a"charge of wilful and obscene exposure in a tramcar in Queen Street, Onehunga, on August 7. Accused, who was represented by Mr. Allan Moody, reserved his defence", and wa: committed for trial at the Supreme Court. THEFT BY SALESMAN. A charge of stealing £1 4/6 the property of Henry Buer, was preferred against Lionel Ernest Hinton (49), who pleaded, guilty. Chief-Detective Cummings said that accused had been employed as a salesman, lie had collected'the money and converted it to his own use. Hinton had been in trouble before, having been convicted several times for theft.' Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.