POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 20410, 15 February 1930, Page 22

POLICE COURT

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15,

(Before Mr J. 11. Bartholomew, S.M.)

MEDICAL OBSERVATION

Thomas Henry Mansfield was brought up on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person, in that he had in-, sufficient lawful visible means of sup-port.—Sub-inspector Cummings suggested that the man should bo remanded for medical observation. He had been found wandering about Morningtori and had been sleeping out. In- November last he was committed to a home, but would not stay there.—A remand till Wednesday for medical observation wqs made. DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR.

John Henry Fitzgerald was chargee! with behaving iu a disorderly manner iu London street. He pleaded guilty,— Sub-inspector Cummings said , that shortly after 1 o’clock this morning a constable in George street heard a noise coming from a house in London street, and he went along, and the defendant and two other men were causing a disturbance. He had a Wound at the back of his ear, and said he receivedit from one of the other men. He was taken to the hospital, where the wound was dressed. He was in constant work and was a good worker. A fine of 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, was imposed. VICTIM OP CIRCUMSTANCES. Hiram Davis, for whom Mr White appeared, came Up for sentence on two charges of theft. / Mr White said that the probation officer’s report showed that the boy was the victim of circumstances more than anything else. His mother died when he was very young, and he had gone to live with his grandmother, but she died later, and the boy and his father had “ bached ” in Mornington until a few weeks ago, when his father got out of work and they had gone to the Salvation Array shelter to live. That was quite an improper place for a boy. He was, of course, locked out from 10 o’clock in the morning till 5 at night, according to the rules of the institution, and that meant that he had to wander about the town and get his meals out. Before Christmas he had been working for three years at his trade of metalworker, but had to give that up on account of ill-health, and he was in hospital for a considerable time suffering from double pneumonia. It was very difficult to know what was best to do with him under the circum.stanccs. •

His Worship said that, Mr Garbutt suggested a remand to see if the boy could be placed on the Army training farm, and the boy was accordingly rt> manded till Wednesday next, (rail being allowed ip his'father’s bond of £5.