POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 155, 4 July 1927, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M) THE REVELLERS. Nine cases of drunkenness accumulated over the week-end, and they took their appearance in the dock in varying ways, from one old chap's cheery "Yes, that's right, boss,? when charged, to the whisper and hanging head of an unfortunate woman found drunk yesterday in Myers Park. Robert Henry Johnston, second offender, got knocked down by a motor as a result of his potations, and had to pay medical expenses as well as a fine. Ernest Cox, a third offender, was fined £5 last time he was before the Court. "Guilty. I'm sorry," was his answer when charged, and he readily agreed to taking out a prohibition order against himself, in view of which promise of reform the Court let him 6ff with a £2 fine this time. HOT TOO COHEREHT. Although he pleaded guilty to a charge of being au idle and disorderly person, a young man named Robert Alexander Andrews was not too clear when asked if he would try and pull himself together if the Salvation Army would try and help him. Senior Sergeant Edwards said there was some doubt whether the man was normal'or not. He had been found sleeping in a boat round in Freeman's Bay where the Victoria Cruising Club draws up its yachts. He was a great nuisance, had no" money, no work, and no friends, and had previously been convicted at Hamilton and Auckland for vagrancy and theft. Captain Da vies, of the Salvation Army, said he thought he could get in touch with some friends of the man. The magistrate remarked that if there was a prospect of the man getting work he would not order punishment Andrews, unshaven, collarless, hair anyhow, leaned against the dock railing, and looked the picture of hopelessness in spite of his age, which could not have been more than 24 or so. "How the can I get work when the last time I was here you told me to—" he said to the Bcnch, but the tailend of his wail was quite incoherent. It was then that the Court followed the senior sergeant's advice to adjourn the case for a week, Andrews in the meantime to be examined as to his mental state. REMANDED FOR OBSERVATION. Andrew Peter Niemi. a little middleman of pinched appearance, pleaded guilty to having been found without lawful excuse on the premises of Prof. Paterson, of Vincent Avenue, Remuera. Asked if he had anything to say the accused looked round the court and asked for Rev. Jasper Calder. He seemed very distrait, and the court adopted Senior-Sergeant Edwards' suggestion that the man should be remanded for medical observation. RINGING-IN CHARGE. Walter McCarthy, charged with "ringing-in" a racehorse at several meetings in Australia, was further remanded until Thursday, when a boat would be leaving for Sydney, said Chief-Detective Cummings. On the application of Mr. Sullivan bail was renewed. DODGED THEIR BOARD. Percy Brome Presland (27) and Irving John Hurrey (21) admitted having obtained board and lodging at Hamilton by means of fraud. Chief-Detective Cummings explained that the young men were bound from Gisborne for Waiuku, where they intended going rabbiting. They stopped at a boarding house at Hamilton, gave false names, and cleared out without paying. Both accused, who were rather flashily dressed, said they could make good the amount they owed the boarding house keeper. The magistrate fined each man £2 and ordered him to make restitution of the £2 15/ due to the boarding house keeper. A BORROWED SPANNER. "It certainly looks suspicious," 6aid the S.M., "but since you have been in the habit of borrowing tools I will give you the benefit of the doubt and dismiss the charge. On June 25, when William Henry Clarke, carrier, told Leonard Henry Cattley, to put a tail-light on his car, he went to tea. When Clarke had finished his meal Cattley was missing and the job was undone, while a wheel-spanner was missing. Afterwards Cattley was arrested, and under his coat he had the spanner and another one with it. Accused said he merely intended to borrow the tools and return them later on—as he had often done before. Clarke said he knew the man had borrowed tools before, but he had always asked leave. The S.M. gave Cattley the benefit of the doubt.