LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12737, 14 December 1904, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE.

POLICE COURT NEWS. Ms. S. E. McCabtht, S.M., presided over yosterday's sitting of the Police Court. Drunkenness: Among those charged with drunkenness yesterday was a first offender, who "wae fined 20s and costs. Albert McLyndon, who was dealt with on another charge, was discharged. Mary Friend, a prohibited person, admitted a fourth offence within six months. On it being suggested that she should go to the Salvation Army Rescue Home she consented to go for three morijflis. The magistrate, in ordering her to come up for sentence when called upon, said thai if she failed to keep her promise he would send her back to gaol for two months. •

A Vagrant: The partly-heard case against Walter Harkins, charged with vagrancy, was continued. The accused called a witness, who said that Harkins had worked for him in November last, when he got £3 for his sendees. Harkins admitted that he had not done any work since, and the magistrate, in view of the accused's bad record, sent him to gaol for three months. Twelve Months for Obscene Language: Albert McLyndon pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in Wellesleystreet on Monday evening. Sub-Inspector Black said that the language used was very bad. After being arrested the prisoner used filthy expressions all the way up WellesleyStreet and to the police station. He was always using obscene language, and on the last occasion he got three months. Th~ magistrate said that the only way to dea* with the accused was to sentence him to a very lengthy term. Mr. McCarthy then imposed a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour.

A By-law Case: Ernest Connolly Bennett, for riding his bicycle along the Railway Wharf, was fined 5s and co*is. Remanded: A young man named William Pu.-.p G. Skipwith was remanded until Friday next upon a charge of failing to provide adequate maintenance for his illegitimate child. Bail was allowed, accused in £100 and two sureties in £50 each. SubInspector Black said that on Friday he would apply for a remand to Rotorua. Maintenance: An application by Lucy Weston Buck for the increase of a maintenance order against her husband, Samuel Charles Henry Buck, was dismissed on the ground that "the defendant was unable to pay more. James Rydei Moore, charged with failing to comply with an order of the Court for the maintenance of his illegitimate child, being £8 4s in arrears, did not appear. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, the magistrate ordering that the warrant be suspended for one week to give the defendant an opportunity of paying off the arrears. Separation Order: Blanche Tarbutt, 17 years of age, applied for a separation order "against her husband, William Clarence C. Tarbutt, 25 years of age. The complainant said that since she married the defendant some months ago he had failed to support her. After their child wag born he took her to his parents to live, but she could not get en with her mother-in-law, and left in consequence. He was out of work when he married her. The defendant, who was represented by Mr. Skeltou, said that he was now earning 7s 6d per week as a watchmaker, and was doing hi» best to make a home for his wife and child. At present he could do nothing. The magistrate decided to make an order as prayed, and he said that he would aluo srivu him an incentive to work. He would be ordered to pay £1 per week and costs (£2 2s), and besides that he would have to enter into a bond of £100 and find a surety of a like amount to ensure compliance with the order.