COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 April 1928, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES

MAORI YOUTH’S OFFENCES. [by telegraph—press association.] WELLINGTON, April 16. The 19-year-old Maori youth who wasarrested last- week while wearing women’s apparel, received a sentence' of six months-’ imprisonment to-day on a chargp of being a rogue and a vagabond. On each of three changes of theft he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months. A CONSTABLE OBSTRUCTED. WELLINGTON, April 16. While Constable Honey bone was talcing James Walsh, aged 41, to Mount Cook Police Station on Saturday evening on a charge of using obsoe-np language, a crowd gathered and the constable was abstracted by several men. Walis-h also resisted violently. He was to-day fined £2 for using obscene 'language and was convicted and ordered to make good the damage done to the policeman's tunic, amounting to £3 15s, and on a charge of resisting a sentence of one month’s .imprisonment was imposed. Lawrence Peterson, aged 24, and Robert Burgess, aged 49, each received a month's imprisonment for obstructing the constable. SEQUEL TO QUARREL IN HOTEL. CHISTCHURCH, April 16In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Nat Hanley, a music hall comedian, who was charged with presenting a -revolver at another m an, pleaded not guilty. Hanley was fined 20s for bringing fireaims into New Zealand, and the more serious charge was dismissed. It was stated that after a drinking pnrtv in -a hotel, and during a row over money, Han-'-ey fired a. blank cartridge at the floor to frighten the other men.

FINED FOR. INTOXICATION. WELLINGTON, April 16. Carl William Handrickson, a civil servant, aged 22, was fined £lO, and Jiis license cancelled for six months, on a charge of being drunk while in cl-atge of a. motor cycle. SEQUEL TO POLICE, RAID. 1 WELLINGTON, April 16. An echo of the recent police raid on the Premier Club occurred in the Court to-day, when George Fisher, a. labourer, pleaded gut l tv to being found in a. common gaining house and to obtaining £6 hv means of a. valueless) cheque. It was stated that the accused had presented the cheque to a restaurant proprietor, who subsequently managed to get £4 back. On the first, charge Fisher was fined £2. and on the second admitted to probation for 12 months, on condition that he refunded the balance of the money.