POLICE COURT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12507, 21 May 1906, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

+ Mr V. G. Day, S.M., occupied the Bench at the Police Court on Saturday morning. Alfred Dory Ozior, chargetl with driinkennceis, said he was not drunk but onJy excited. The arresting constable eaid that accused was not excited, but "simply drunk." On the application of the police, a remand was I granted, accused being liberated oil his own recogniieances. William Chapman, a middle-aged paper seller, cliarced with wilfully ; breaking a pane of glass, value<l at 1 13s 6d, the property of Frederick Boot, J explained that he liad broken t'he glass , accidentally. Two wittrasses stated that Chapman, being drunk, had broken the gliHvt in default of getting into Boot's J ire-taiirant Jato last might. Ho was j fined 10s, «nd ordoinxl to pay for the breakage. Mr Hunt appeared in support of nn application by Louisa Mary Lawrence , foi 4 the van-ing of an order of maintenanco against Herbprt Arthur Lawrence. Mr Hunt said that Lawrence had been ordered to pay maintenance at the rate of £1 per week, nnd ftml sureties for co doing. He could not find the sureties, and, consequently, had in gaol fiince January. His client, on • account of a.n 'improvement iv hor j financial position, e.sked that Die I eimonnt should be reduced to los n j week, and the order for sureties oanj celled. The application was granted.