POLICE COURT CASES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 9

POLICE COURT CASES.

SHORT LIST TO-DAY.

THEFT OF SHIP'S STORES,

It was a dull day at the Police Court which sat at 9 o'clock this morning. Offenders numbered but five, three being firtt offending inebriates, one a disorderly "drunk" and one a man charged with stealing a couple of bottles of pickles and a tin of jam Shouting in the Street. Francis Leo Credin, labourer, aged 30, did not appear to answer a charge of being disorderly while drunk in Elliott Street yesterday afternoon. Sub-Inspector Shanalian explained that Credin had been bailed in the sum of £3. He had been warned to go home by a constable, but he refused, and commenced to shout out aloud, so he was taken into custody. Mr. Hunt ordered that Credin forfeit his bail. "You Know Better Than That." The theft of two bottles of Canadian mixed pickles and a largo tin of jam, stores belonging to the Canadian National Steamship Co.'s vessel Canadian Conqueror, brought Peter Moran, a fireman, aged 48, to the dock.

Moran denied that he stole the jam and pickles, the value of which was 10/(5. A constable said Moran was accosted as he was leaving the King's wharf last evening with the goods in his possession. When first questioned Moran said the captain of the ship gave them to him, but later he said he was helping a member of the crew of the Canadian Conqueror to get the goods off the ship.

"The chief engineer told me to stand by yesterday in case tliey were a man short in the stokehold" Moran'told the magistrate. "While I was waiting to see if I got a passage, a member of the crew gave me the pickle and the jam and asked me to give them to a woman on the wharf. He said the woman had live children, and that he was giving her the stores."

"You know better than that, you have been up here for theft before," Mr. Hunt told Moraii.

Accused was fined £2, or seven days' imprisonment.