POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11

POLICE COURT

' SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. ■ ’(Before Mr H. W, Bundle, S.M.) # drunkenness. “ i tad a few too many,” admitted James Alfred Boreham, a statutory first offender. . He was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment; Sarah Elizabeth Smith, making her second appearance in six months, was convicted and ordered to come' up for sentence if called upon within three months, Adjutant Coombes remarking that sha had not been so ; troublesome lately. • . Vernon Patrick Rowlands was fined 10s, or 48 hours, for his third offence wihtin six months.; “ Unfortunately I started to argue with a constable. I made a, mistake and admit itj” said a first offender, who was convicted and discharged. AGGRIEVED LOVER; “ This young man accused' another man of taking his girl off him, and, fortified with plenty of liquor, met him and started to fight,” said Seniorsergeant Packer of Lloyd Thomas Sims (20), who ,pleaded guilty to .a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in Custom House square. Sims was very determined, added the senior-sergeant,, but the affray .was quickly stopped. It was at 10.10 last night that it occurred. . ( ’ The Magistrate; There was no serious damage done? . ; ; . The Senior-sergeant: No, sir. , i Sims was fined 10s, or 24 hours, the magistrate refusing to suppress his name. CHARGE DISMISSED. Walter Hand (30) pleaded not guilty to a charge of obscene exposure in the Museum grounds. He was represented by Mr L. R. Simpson. , After hearing the evidence the magistrate upheld counsel’s contention, that the facts did not disclose “ wilful and obscene” exposure, and; that the incident was the consequence of Hand’s drinking in a nearby hotel, the con-; venience of which was closed when he came out just after 6 p.m. The charge was dismissed.- i