LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12524, 17 March 1904, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE.

POLICE COURT NEWS.: • Y£STOBDAT*s*sittmK of the Police Court was held before Mr. Kettle, S.M. ,The police were represented by. Chief-Detective Grace and Sub-Inspector Black.: > Drunkenness: . Two ; ; first offenders, ■; who pleaded, guilty to charges of drunkenness, were convicted and ordered to come iup for sentence when culled ; upon, His Worship saying that he would have fined them 5s each „ had he thought they were able to pay it. •-. -■': Forfeiture of bail {£•!; was ordered in a ; third and similar case ? A prohibition order was issued against Robert Batoman, a fifth offender. . - . ' An Unfortunate 0)>:ld: Thomas Brennan, a child 14- months old, was charged with consorting with reputed prostitutes, and the police called evidence to show that the child's mother is at present in gaol, and his father ; is in the hospital. It was stated that the •child had been left in the charge of a woman, who said, when the child was taken in cus- ; tody, that she did not care what became of him. as she had no homo. At the suggestion of the. Rev. Father Patterson, . who was present. His "Worship committed tie child to the Takapuna home, to be brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. Stealing Pairs of Trousers The hearing of the charge of stealing two pairs of trousers, valued at £2 10s, the property of Edward George Clarke and Ernest A. Sims, against John McQueen was continued. Sub- ., Inspector Black informed His Worship that the case had been adjourned at the accused's instigation for the production of a man named Christie, from whom the accused said he got the trousers for the purpose of selling them for » drink. The police, accompanied by the accused, had tried to find thi3 man, but they had been unsuccessful. A mate of the accused's named Creasey was called, and .ho stated that though he had given McQueen ■ a suit a week or so ago, the trousers pro- ■'.'■■■■■:. duoed did not belong to it. The complainant Sims said that he had left a pair of trousers hanging up in his shop in Welles-ley-streofc on Saturday night last, and he missed them later on in the evening. One of the pairs of ■ trousers produced was his. His Worship decided to conviot the accused, whom he sentenced to 14- days', imprisonment with hard labour. An Alleged Vagrant; A young man named Henry Johnston was charged .with being deemed to be a rogue and vagabond, in that he had insufficient lawful means of support, and had been . previously - convicted ■ for vagrancy. The effect of the evidence given "by several constables was that the accused, since he was discharged from gaol six months auo, had done no work, and was frequently found strolling round and sleepingon_the - wharves at all hours of the night. His Worship adjourned the hearing of the case for ' one week, so that the accused might bo enabled to obtain employment in the mean-: ,' Alleged Wife Desertion; John Henry' Smith Was remanded in custody to appear, at Newcastle, New South Wales, on a charge of having deserted his wito. there 'on January 9 last. Constable MeVicar, of the ,; New • South Wales force, identified Smith as the man that was and ha said that. wife desertion was punishable 'in Newbout "-: v Wales up to a maximum sentence of three | ■•.■'. 'years' imprisonment, , . Indecent Lansniage: Robert Carroll, a married man, living at Newmarket, was charged with using indecent language in Ayr- | ' : etreet. He pleaded not guilty, saying that \ ha had no recollection of having committed ' the offence. Constable McLennon said that = ibo accused was ; partially ; drunk when fie used the language complained of. which was : at his house in Ayr-street. Carroll was conrioted and ordered to be imprisoned until the rising of the Our*. v : . A Bottle Carter Fined: A charge of refusing to move his horse and cart (which: was blocking traffio in Durham-street West) was preferred against a bottle carter named Harry Cook, who pleaded not guilty. The "case for the prosecution was that t|ie ac■cused, while loading his cart with bottles r from the *. Metropolitan V Hotel, ■ refused _to move on when requested to do so by nonstable Driscoll,: thus preventing several other . vehicles congested at the spot from paasing. The defendant, who admitted the fact, said . - he was unable to comply .with the constable s - request' at the moment, became of the awkwardness of the load which his horse was carrying. Had he moved the horse then he anight have endangered : its life. H« Worship, = in registering a conviction, fined Gook la and coats. ~ ,', ' ~ *■___*. Hotel Lamp: For failing to keep the front door lamp of the British Hotel alight after .unset on•March & the licensee, Thorn* Box- ■■■'' ton, waa wnvicted and fined Is and costs. - • Application for Sureties of the Peace: " J«m Dunne, cabdriver, appeared on: war-rant-to answer a charge of threatening to murder his wife, Crrrie Dunne who prayed Sat £ be bound over to keep the peace towards her, Mr, Martin, representing he complainant, said *fter t^ri of X I .- Court on the previous day he had sent a note ■-to the accusal, informing: him that he J ad been separated from his wife, and asking him toleave his wife's restaurant in Grey, - .S as soon; and as quietly «s possible. - When the wife went there some hours later, . yvn«n w« 5 met the _ uge( j w ho threatZZ*A tn murder her, and he would not go 55J. aBto!1 therefore to issue a warrant for Ls -"est, and the result was that g now asked for sureties for lumto Keepjft? feared being the achSnttrSg issued gainst him, and His Worship adjourned the case for a wee* to see how the man behaves during that time.