LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11636, 25 April 1901, Page 6

LAW AND POLICE.

; POLICE COURT NEWS. Mr. T. Hutchison, S.M., presided at thfr Police Court yesterday. ~ Drunkenness: . Three first offenders -a \?ora convicted and discharged, and Nicholas Crawford and Robert Toi Toi were each .fined ss, or 24- hcurs in default.?; - Vagrancy: An ; old man. named. Robert Francis Manning : pleaded not guilty, to ' a charge of vagrancy. Mr. Strath stated that the accused had been an inmate of the Costley Home, and ; had left, ; refusing to return when requested to do so. Hi 3 Worship discharged the aoousod on his promising to return to the Costley Homo at once. Remanded A, middle-aged .. man, who alleged that his namo was James Bishop, pleaded not guilty to a charge of being a deserter from H.M.s. ' Archer, named "James Daniel ■ ' Cleator. ! ; Sub-Inspector ■ Mitchell prosecuted. Evidence was part heard last week. His Worship said . the ? circumstances

of the case pointed to the fact that accused , was identical with Cleator,; and remanded him into custody pending tho /arrival of ono - of His Majesty's warships. • Adjourned: A charge of keeping a brothel,' preferred against Mary Walsh, was further adjourned for a week. A charge against Mrs. Briggs, of breaking a pane of glass, tho property of Annie Cassells,' and of using. threatening language towards Annie Cassells, was adjourned till to-day. Bruno Georgo Mclsaac was charged with failing to main- ' tain his wife and throe children.., Mr. Napier appeared for the complainant, and Mr. McGregor represented defendant. After tho . wife's evidence had been taken, tho case was; adjourned till Monday next. • Shop Assistant Act: William ; Seeley pleaded not guilty to charges of employing a girl named Ethel Lang will in his shop for a longer period than' 12 hours continuously, and with failing to allow the girl an' hour for dinner. Mr. Ferguson (inspector" of factories) said that on the night of the 16th' tilt.- ho visited' tho shop of tho' defendant, who is a greengrocer carrying on business'in Karasgahape Road, and found tho girl Langwill serving. It was t twenty minutes past eleven o'clock, and the girl left tho shopon seeing witness enter. From questions ha gathered' that the girl worked from eight o'clock in tho morning till twelve o'clock at night. The girl, gave evidonco, and? said she worked in the shop till two o'clock each day, and assisted in the shop after that hour. In answer to His Worship witness _ said she received 8s per week for her sorvices,. and cooked the breakfast each morning on arriv- • ing at defendant's shop. She also did tho washing, ironing, and general housework. Defendant said the girl was employed as a domestic. His Worship said ; the fact of a shop assistant doing house work did not make her any the less a shop assistant; His Worship deferred judgment, in order to look up a previous decision in a similar case. Protection Order: A protection order wa3 granted to Elizabeth Parker, against her husband, David Parker, on the ground of cruelty to her since January last.