COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1928, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

UNDRESSED IN THE STREET. (By Telegrapn—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 24. After attending a party, at which he took too much liquor, Cecil Clarence Brady, aged 31, got tired on his way home, and when he reached Symonds Street at two o’clock yesterday morning undressed and piled his clothes in a heap on a sarety zone alongside the tram track. Soon afterwards a constable took him in charge. To-day at the Police Court he was lined £l.

WOMAN THREATENS SUICIDE.

AUCKLAND, Dec. 24. When Florence Eugene. Thompson, aged 25, was charged at the Police Court to-day with vagrancy, S\iblnspector McCarthy said she had been living with a man who had suffered injury to his eyes and had not been able to earn sufficient money. There had been a squabble, and on Saturday accused threatened to throw herself over the Grafton Bridge. A constable tried to dissuade her, but she then said she would go over the end of the wharf. A week’s remand was granted. THEFT OF MILK AND CREAM. WELLINGTON, Dec. 26. The police have been keeping a watch at Island Bay in the mornings owing to complaints of theft of milk and cream, and on Christmas morning a. violent struggle took place when a oonstable arrested. Walter Richard Williams, labourer, aged 60, other help having to be obtained. To-day Williams was sentenced to a fortnight’s gaol for theft of five bottles of cream in his possession, and a month concurrent with the other sentence for assaulting the constable with a beer bottle, and was convicted. and discharged on the charge of resisting the police. At the police station he complained of injuries, and it was found lie had two ribs broken.

He was ordered to pay £1 Is doctor’s fee, in default a week’s gaol, cumulative on the previous sentences. The sub-inspector said that the injuries might have been caused in the struggle, which was a very severe one.