POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 11

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.)

OVERSTATED THEIR PERMITS. Wing Lee, Kwang Lee and Wong Nui were prosecuted by the Collector of Customs for remaining in the Dominion longer than their temporary permits entitled them to. On the application of their counsel. Mr. Purdie, who said that the trio had boughit_ their steamer tickets, and would be sailing by the Ulimaroa to-morrow for Sydney, the magistrate remanded them until Saturday. Each was allowed bail in the sum of £23. A DRUNKEN DRIVER. Frank Powley (51) only stood in the dock a minute, but it cost him £2. He admitted that at 4.30 p.m. yesterday he was drunk while in charge of a horse and cart near the entrance to the railway station. NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION. William Sterling, who looked ever so ; much older than 58, confided to Constable Ho His in Queen Street, at 10 o'clock last night, that he had no home and no work, and was in ill-health. He further explained that the 7/ which he had in his pockets had been obtained by begging in the streets. And so he was arrested on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. The sub-inspector said that Sterling possessed a long list of previous convictions. Only last month he served II days' gaol for vagrancy. He ne?dcd medical attention. "Three months," said Mr. Hunt. "He will see the doctor up above.*' DID NOT MEAN TO HURT HIM. "Did you hit him over the head with your walking stick!" the magistrate asked Daniel McLeod (64), who pleaded not guilty to a charge of having yesterday assaulted Sydney Montague Martelli. "Yes, of course I did, but not to hurt him. He says that I owed him £50, but I don't," answered the old chap. Martelli, who knew McLeod, said that accused wanted him to take a double. When he refused, McLeod struck him a violent blow on the head with his walking stick. A woman came on the scene and took the stick away from him. The police said that many years ago McLeod was a bookmaker and a wealthy man. But now he had a long list of previous convictions, including one, on February 4 last, for being a rogue and a vagabond. McLeod got ofT with a fine of £2, or seven days' imprisonment. GIRL SENT TO BORSTAL. One of the two girl tourists, who journeyed to Auckland a month ago from Wellington in an old motor car, and who were arrested by the police at 3 a.m. on August 31, when they were placing their belongings in the car. Duk-ie Millen Turnbull (18), appeared for sentence for vagrancy. Sub-Inspector Lewin said that accused and the other girl had been in Auckland three weeks going round with men. As there was no one who could look after her, it was suggested that she be sent to the Borstal Institute.

Mr. Hunt agreed with this suggestion and ordered her to be detained there for two years.