POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13306, 12 October 1906, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THE RECENT FIGHT ON THE S.S. SUSSEX. .. SAILORS IN TROUBLE. '. As a sequel to the disturbance which occurred on board the s.s. Suffolk on Wednesday afternoon/Alexander Dalberg (seaman) and Alfred Pyram (fireman) were yesterday charged before Messrs. E. F. Melville and W. H. Martin, J.IVs, at the Police Court, with disorderly conduct by fighting. They both admitted their guilt. .Sergeant Hendry gave an account of the disturbance on board the vessel identical if with the report published in yesterday's HKRAXD. He further said that the language « used as the fight proceeded was shocking, but they did not know who the exact offenders were. The Bench convicted and discharged the accused/ and ordered them to pay costs in connection with the case. I- George W. Bailey, charged with obstructing Constable Armstrong, who had endeavoured to separate the last two accused, when asked to plead, replied "Guilty. '. I had drink." " .Sergeant Hendry said there was no doubt :', all. were more or less under the influence of • liquor. The accused had seized Constable Armstrong from behind, and tried to pull him down lis he was endeavouring to separate the men lighting. .Accused: "There. : are some passengers here, and they saw me . . trying to separate them (meaning Dalberg and Pyram). and put them in their bunks.'' 'Constable Armstrong said the accused followed him round the deck, and would not let him get hold of the two men who,were fighting.. The. accused also attempted 'to strike him. The accused called a passenger, j. -'.'■' who said lie did not see the actual start of «" • the tight. He saw the accused trying to separate the men fighting. In reply to the Bench as to what he pleaded, accused said: •'l.plead guilty to pulling them apart. There -are others—Britishers—who can prove my words." The Bench said the evidence was conflicting, and discharged .;:.'• Bailey. , _______ V "AN UNMITIGATED NUISANCE." Alexander Finnegan, an elderly man, pleaded not guilty to being an idle and • disorderly.person." Sergeant Sheehan gave evidence "in support of the prosecution, and a young man said that the accused had come to" him in Ponsonby Road, and asked for money to buy food. He gave the man threepence, as the accused told him he had not tasted food . for two days. Sergeant >; . Hendry described the accused as an unI : mitigated nuisance He continually begged money to spend in drink. There were '■■ several of these men about. If they did not get. money there was a flow of dirty, filthy abuse. Accused was sentenced to three t .months' imprisonment. . "A SLIGHT DISTURBANCE." Two respectably dressed young men admitted having used threatening behaviour > in Market Lane, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned.' Sergeant Hendry said the two accused had created "a slight disturbance." * They were comrades, and one of them, who had escaped arrest, had come forward that,? morning to have the matter settled. The accused were convicted and discharged. DRUNKENNESS. Alice Fenwick, a, second offender, was prohibited and recommitted to the Door of Hope, the Bench expressing the hope that she would appreciate the chance given her. • Another woman, a first offender, who had taken a serial of fits in the police cells, was f ordered to par 2s 6d cab. fare,. and a 15s - ■'••>"'medical expenses! Three first, offenders fined 5s and costs, and another accused, who had not offended for. some time, was fined 10s, and 2s 6d costs. •