LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10481, 29 June 1897, Page 3

LAW AND POLICE.

POLICE COURT.-Mondat.. [Before Mr. H. W. Brabant. S.M.]

Drunkenness. - Three first offenders were dismissed with » caution; a fourth was fined ss, and allowed the usual option. Win. Coppell, for his second offence, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Chakoe of Lakoesy Dismissed.—A young man named Frederick Moore was charged that, on June 18, hi stole an overcoat, worth £3, the property of Herbert James Clifton. Mr. Cotter, appeared for -the accused, who pleaded no.t guilty. The informant stated that the coat was stolen from the Clarendon Hotel, where he and the accused lodged. Evidence was also given by Constable Bailey and by Mrs. Hartley, second-hind dealer, Wellesley-street. The latter witness said she could not be positive as to the identity of the accused. His Worship gave Moore the benefit of the doubt, and dismissed the case. Maintenance Order.—Henry Boiser was charged that he deserted his two children, Henry William, aged 8, and Delphine J. Bosser, aged 6, and with failing to support them. The Bench made an order against the defendant to contribute towards his children's support. Cohes v. Cohen.—The following charge ap)»inst Benjamin Cohen was read:—"That yon have been guilty of persistent cruelty to, and wilful neglect to maintain, your wife, and she now applies for a separation order under the Married Persons Summary Separation Act, 1896; first that she be no longer bound to cohabit with you; second, that she have the custody of your two youngest children; and, third, that you pay into the Court such weekly sum as the Court may see St to order, and that you be bound over to find sureties that you will pay the same." The case was adjourned for hearing till next Wednesday. A Separation Okder.—Emma Bodeu was granted a separation order against her husband, Samuel Bodeu, and also the custody of her children. The order was made by consent of the defendant.

An Affiliation Case.—lsabella Miller, mother of an illegitimate child, of which John Morrow was alleged to ,bo the father, applied for the maintenance of such child. Mr. McAllister appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Napier for the defendant. The osse was adjourned for a week. Theft op Shoes.—John Monaghan, a young man, pleaded guilty to having stolen a pair of shoes, valued at 10s, the property of Andrew Lang, from Waters' Coffee Palace. Sergeant Clarke explained that the accused took the shoes from outside the informant's door, where the owner had left them in the boarding house to be cleaned, and left an old useless pair in their stead. Accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.

Alleged Theft op Gdm.-George R. Hamilton, a Maori ot about 26 years, was charged that on June 3, he stole 20 sacks of kauri gum, of the value of £80, the property of Okena Hapakuku. The accused pleaded notguilty. Mr. J. Lundon conducted the case for the prosecution, Mr. Brown acting as interpreter. Evidence in support of the charge was to the effect that Hamilton obtained the gum by a false pretence; that when the gam was being landed from the schooner Medora, at the Queen-street Wharf, the accused represented himself to be an employee in a cum store in Auckland, and said that he had an order from the owner to get the gum; that Okena Hapakuku, the prosecutor, who was a resident of flerekino, sent the gum clown by the Medora to Auckland, and the accused, who knew Okena, obtained it by false pretence, sold it to a store in Auckland, and out of the money which he thus obtained he paid £11 to Okeua's agent, as a discharge of a debt which he owed Okena. Several native witnesses, including the informant, gave evidence, and the Court sat till a late hour hearing the case. Finally the further hearing of the case was adjourned till Wednesday next, when three more native witnesses will be examined.

CiuxoE op Vaorancv. —A charge of vagrancy against Charles Curran was adjourned till next Wednesday.