LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11563, 29 January 1901, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE .

j& POLICE COURT NEWS.' I 3SJ3 H. W. Bbabant, S.M., presided at the, If police Court; yesterday. NEWS." ■■, Mb H. W; Bbabant, S.M., presided at the , police Court yesterday. ; i'•- '•' • Drunkenness: Two first < offenders v were j I ■ ' convicted ': and discharged, and ; Percy BosI ' worth fined 10s, or ,48 hours' imprisonment in default. Mary Brown was fined 20s, or J seven days' hard labour for a like offence. I I ; ' Damage to Property: A young man named i W. Barratt was convicted on his own plea of guilty on a charge of wilfully breaking a pane of glass, valued at 153, the property of Mary Dooloy. Chief-Detective Grace said that- the accused was in the street near prosecutor's house, and deliberately took up a stone and smashed the window. Other young men who were with accused endeavoured to prevent him from doing so. A fine of 10s, and costs 235, was imposed, and accused ordered to pay for the damage,, or and ergo 48 hours' imprisonment in c jfault. Similar charges against "■-. Cairns Clark and ■'i Edward Halford were withdrawn on the application of Chief-Detective Grace, as he JU « stated that Barratt was the real culprit. Remanded: Alfred Duncan Glass was remanded till the 4th pros., on a charge of being about to leave the colony without i making provision for his illegitimate child. Bail was allowed, accused in one surety of £59.- Ralph Ormston, on a charge of assaulting Valentine Wood, was also remanded til] j the same date. . Dismissed: A youth.named Alfred Curtis, who was represented by Mr. T. Copper, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a ! metal watch and silver chain with pendant attached, valued at 30s, tho property ot Alfred Watson. Chief-Detective Grace prosecuted. The evidence showed that accused had been lent the property by Watson, and had pawned the chain, and, further, had , pledged tho watch with a lodginghousekeeper, as security for board and lodging. " . Watson denied that he had authorised the accused to borrow money on the property. Accused gave evidence, and said that ho and Watson had been "chums" for years, and that there was no felonious intent, and that | he had made no concealment in the matter. I Accused said he was hard up, Mid-, had t pledged the property with Watson s know-1 ledge. His Worship said that ha did not 1 " think the circumstances of the case would | warrant him convicting the accused, and dis-1 missed the case. , , . ,| Vagrancy: Mary Little, who pleaded | guilty to a charge of loitering and impor-1 ',' tuning pedestrians for the purpose of prostitution, was fined £2, or 14 days' hard labour in default. Mildred Telefson, for a v, like offence, was convicted and ordered to '• " come up for sentence when called upon. A child named Sydney Peter Hudson, whom - Detectiv. Maddern stated had been found! living in c house with the woman Little, was Bommitted to the Auckland Industrial School, to be brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. Illegal Betting: Arthur Cleave was charged with unlawfully publishing in a certain newspaper,: to wit, the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review and Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, a certain advertisement, . inviting persons to take shares in bets on the event of horse races. There was a second charge of publishing in the same newspaper an advertisement whereby it was made to appear that the office of the said newspaper was used for the purpose of betting. The Hon. J. A. Tola appeared for the police, | Mr. C. Z. Clayton, in pleading guilty on be- g half of defendant, said that Mr. Cleave was g proprietor of the Sporting Review news- 1 paper, and had issued in his paper coupons | inviting the public to pick the winners of jjj three rices by filling in the successful names | in the three lines of tho coupon, and anyone % who succeeded in doing so received a prize A offered of £20. Such coupons were greatly! in vogue in England, and in view of a de-1 cision given in England in 1895, in favour I of the proprietor of a paper called Sporting Luck, defendant had instituted similar coupons in the columns of his paper, but on hearing that the decision had been recently reversed, had immediately stopped the competitions. Hie Worship imposed a fine of iOs, arid costs £3; 16s 3d, on both charges, Four other charges of a like nature were rithdrawn, on the application of Mr. Tole. Charge of Assault: A young man named Charles Moylan was charged _with assaulting Charles Nankervis and, causing him actual bodily harm. Sub-inspector Mitchell prosecuted, and accused was represented by Mr. Baume. Prosecutor deposed that he was a tram conductor, and had an altercation with accused in a car on the Ponsonby circuit. Witness further stated that accused and he had a further row on the, pavement on leaving the car, when accused struck him on the back of the neck with a beer bottle, - inflict-■ i -«-" ing, a wound-which, had to 'be" stitched, Mr. Baume said that r : , the: defence was that _ the prosecutor was the aggressor, and that in a scuffle which ensued on the pavement, prosecutor threw accused down, and the assault was the outcome of the fracas, and asked that the case be dismissed on these rounds His Worship said that even if the prosecutor was the aggressor, it did not justify accused striking him with a bottle, and he thought that it was a case for a jury. Accused was committed for trial, bail being allowed in two sureties of £10 each.