POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 8

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, JANUUARY 27,

(Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) AFTER HOURS. John Harris, James M'Kinnon, and George Watt were charged with being found in the Green Island Hotel after hours on January 8. Constable Hamilton, of Green Island, stated, in evidence, that he visited the hotel at about 12.50 a.m. on Sunday, January 8, and he found the three men in the kitchen sitting around a table. M’Kinnon had a glass of beer in front of him. and Watt also had a glass. On being asked what they were doing there Harris said they had been for a motor drive to the Taieri, and had conic to the hotel for tea. Afterwards they played euchre. The magistrate fined each 20s and costs. DANGEROUS DROVING. Thomas Wintrip was charged with driving cattle along the Main South road near Burnside without having an attendant in front. Constable Hamilton, of Green Island, stated that at 8.40 a.m. on January 11 he found Wintrip driving about eighty head of cattle on the Main road near Burnside without anyone being in front of the herd. Wintrip had said that a man called Stanley Brooks was to have accompanied him, but he had been thrown off his horse. The witness made inquiries about Brookes, but found that he had no intention of going past the Commercial Hotel. The Green island Council intended to enforce the by-laws in regard to this practice, as it was a danger to schoolchildren. Defendant was fined 5s and costs. MOTOR ISIS’ OFFENCES.

William George Griffiths pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving of his motor lorry, the police stating that the speed was twenty-five miles an hour.—Defendant said he had a fare waiting for him at the station, and hurried. He had been driving_ for twenty years and had not previously been before the court. —A fine of 20s and costs was imposed. For failing to have lights on his motor car at night, Thomas Joseph Banks was fined os, with costs. A fine of us, without costs, was imposed on Leslie Walter Blackie for failing to have his motor lorry lit at night. . , Alexander Currie was lined us and costs for failing to have a light on his motor. . A similar charge was brought against John Hodge, who was fined os and costs. . , A tine of us and costs was mii>osecl on John Patrick Noonan, who had no light on his car. Albert, Edward Segar, who did not have a license to drive a motor car, was fined 5s and costs. Two charges of leaving ins motor car without lights were brought against Horace Wilson in respect to tv*o ditfeient occasions.—Evidence was given by the police that defendant said that his Th© Magistrate instructed the police to make further inquiries, and adjourned the case for a week. George Chooquee, charged with being in charge ol a motor van in St. Andrew street, without a light, was fined 5s and costs. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Charles Alexander Moore was charged with the theft of £8 in money and a purse, valued at 7s fid, from Annie Robertson Erwin. Mr Erwin said she left her purse on the mantelpiece in her living room. It contained £S in money. The afternoon of the following day she went for her purse, but it was missing. Anyone could have got in by the window. . , A detective said he interviewed accused, who admitted the theft, and signed a statement. He said he/ got through a window, and took the purse. Most of the money he spent on drink. The purse had not been found. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail of £SO was allowed, with one surety of a similar amount, on condition that accused reported daily to the police.