POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 11

POLICE COURT

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, 8.M.) IDLE AND DISORDERLY. Arnold Vaughan Sutton, a young man, pleaded guilty to having, with intent to defraud, obtained from George Leonard Newton the sum of £1 by means of a valueless cheque. Detective Beer said that accused was already on probation. Last night be went to complainant’s shop and presented a cheque for £5. A youth who was in the shop had not the full change, but gave accused £1 on account. This amount had been refunded. The detective suggested that the matter stand down until the probation officer’s return to town. A remand was granted until Friday next. Accused: Can I have bail ? Magistrate: No. TOO LAZY TO WORK. A young man named Robert Hall Rogers pleaded not guilty to being deemed an idle and disorderly person having no lawful visible means of support. James Hall, an elderly man, said the accused was his adopted son, and a clerk by profession, though he had done no work for ten years except while at a sanatorium in 1925. He had otherwise made no effort, and was content so long as he got drink. He had caused a great deal of unpleasantness between witness and his aged wife, and they could not put up with it any longer. The man Sutton, previously dealt with, was an associate of accused’s. Witness had told the latter several times to gc\ out, but he refused to do so. Accused said he did all the cooking for, the household. It was a spirit of vindictiveness on the part of the witness Hall and another man who had recently come to Dunedin that had caused the trouble. The Magistrate: It is not a fair thing for yon to sponge on these old people. You are convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upn. You must get out and keep out.