POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 21994, 2 April 1935, Page 1

POLICE COURT

TUESDAY, APRIL 2. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.)' SERIOUS CHARGE. “ The offence is alleged to have been committed in the presence of a number of school children,” said Detective-ser-geant Doyle, in asking for a remand in the case of a man, aged thirty, charged with obscene exposure on March 22. Accused was remanded to April 10, bail being allowed in self £SO and.one surety of £SO. An order was made suppressing publication of the ’name. Mr E. J. Smith appeared for accused.

GUILTY OF of., .a:;breach ,of probation, and of-the-theft" or eight tins of-.pre-served foodstuffs of a value of 10s, the property of the University .Council were admitted by Francis Edward Pratt (19). Albert James Greer (22), alias Albert Robert Graham, also pleaded guilty to the theft of five tins of foodstuffs, valued at 6s. Detective-Sergeant Doyle said that on the night of March 30, while a dance was being held in the students’ hall at the University, the Home Science Department was broken into, a window being broken by pieces of rock and a quantity of foodstuffs stolen. Inquiries were made and yesterday Detectives Le Sueur and Wells visited accuseds’ homes. Under a mattress in Pratt’s room, they found a number of tins and tins were also found in Greer’s room. Their explanation was that, in company with two others, they were refused admission to the dance and they followed some students into the Home Science grounds and found the foodstuffs under a hedge. The four men had all told.the same story. Both accused l had previous convictions. A large quantity of foodstuffs was still unrecovered. _ - Pratt was remanded till Friday on both charges and Greer w r as remanded till to-morrow to enable the Probation Officer to report. GIVEN A FINAL CHANCE. A vehement and voluble denial of % charge of drunkenness was made by Catherine Marie Dow, but she admitted procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. “ I was not drunk,” she said. “It was homo brew and it was brought to me by a friend. I did not make it.” Constable Tither was definite that the woman was drunk when he arrested her on the Birch street wharf, last night; and she was equally positive that she was not drunk. She was excited, she said, because her husband, was annoyed over her going to the wharf. The magistrate: I warned you, when you were prohibited, that, you must strongly obey the order. “T have,” she replied. “ I have not been in any place since then.” “ Don’t talk nonsense! ” said his Worship. “ You have procured liquor.” Ensign Coombs said the woman was never drunk, as they knew it, but she was never sober.

. “ Having been given these repeated warnings, it will be a serious matter for you if you come before the court again,” warned the magistrate, in convicting and discharging Dow on the charge of drunkenness.' On the broach charge, she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within sis months.