POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 10

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.) | DRUNKEN HORSE DRIVER. "You are charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and vehicle iu Wellesley Street yesterday?" said the clerk to John Murdoch McKenzie (51). "Yes, that's right," answered J. M. McKenzie. The police stated that accused was found lying in the bottom of liis cart in a drunken condition. McKenzie was fined £5 and was allowed three days in which to find the money. MOTOR CAR TAKEN FROM GARAGE. Unlawfully converting a motor car, valued at £300, the property of Frank Bish, to his own use was the charge brought against John David (22), who pleaded guilty. Sergeant Calwell said that the motor car was left in an unlocked garage, and at 6.45 this morning Mr. Bish discovered that it had disappeared. Last night Constable Scandrett saw David and also the car, and came to the con- ! elusion that accused did not under- ] stand much about the vehicle. So he questioned him, David then admitting that he had taken the car. "These cases are on the increase in Auckland, and very often cars that are taken are found abandoned and damaged," added the sergeant. j Accused, who had nought to say, was i sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

{ MADE A NUISANCE OF HIMSELF. i About John King (28), who admitted ! that he was disorderly while drunk in I Kingston Street yesterday, Sergeant | Calwell said that King got into a cart and tried to drive it away, making a I nuisance of himself. ! This little escapade cost King a fine of 30/. or two days' imprisonment. | SNEAK THIEF GOES TO GAOL. Charles Richard Hill (38) came up for sentence, charged with stealing a travelling rug valued at £3, the property of some, person unknown. Accused stole the rug from a motor car and sold it to a second-hand dealer, . said the chief detective, who added that I Hill was a sneak thief. j Hill told the magistrate that he was l under the influence of drink at the time j and remembered nothing of the offence, i "Well you have several previous conj victions Hill, and all I can do is to ! send you to gaol for three months," said the magistrate. ______________