POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13499, 28 May 1907, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT FROM A RESTAURANT. At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. C. Kettle, 8.M., a married man, Arthur Fisher, for whom Mr. W. E. Hackett appeared, pleaded guilty to stealing seven spoons, nine knives, and four forks, valued at 22s 6d, the property of J. A. Manson. ' Sub-Inspector Gordon said that the accused went into the complainant's restaurant for his dinner, and wihile there took the articles in question from the table, and put them in his pocket. : Fisher was remanded until Saturday next for the probation officer's report. "A MANLY AND PROPER THING." A fireman • named Patrick McGlashan pleaded not guilty to committing a breach of the peace in Albert-street on Saturday afternoon. It was stated that the defendant and another man were fighting, and when a constable came upon the scene the defendant's opponent decamped. McGlashan said that he defended a barmaid from the insults of the man he was fighting. Mr. Kettle said that if the defendant's stoiy was true, he had done % manly and proper thing, as men had no right to treat a woman differently than they would their own sisters or mothers, simply because she happened to be behind the bar. The information was dismissed. ; BREAKING A WINDOW. George Coyle, a middle-aged man, pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and to using obscene language, and not guilty to breaking a window, valued at £5, the property of J. A. Manson. Evidence was called to the effect that Coyle went into the complainant's boardinghouse in a drunken state, and had to bo ejected. He then threw a bottle through the window. • Coyle, who had a number of previous convictions against, him, was convicted and fined 5s and costs on the first charge, ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on the second, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment on the third. ! . MISCELLANEOUS.

Robert Sproul was charged with using threatening language towards -Arthur F. Webster (his brother-in-latfv),•■„ and Ethel Sproul was charged with using insulting language towards Maud Webster (her sister-in-law). Both cases were heard together. Mr. Singer appeared for .the complainants, and Mr. Prendergast for the defendants. For the prosecution, evidence was called to the effect that Mrs. Sproul had made allegations against Mrs. Webster, and Sproul had threatened to " break every bone in. Webster's body." The defence was an absolute denial of the charges. Mr. Kettle said he was satisfied that Mrs. Sproul had made allegations against Mrs. Webster, and adjourned the case for a month, granting the complainants the liberty to ask for judgment on giving the defendants 24 hours' notice.

Albert Marshall, a boy, was fined Is, and costs 75.. for leaving horse and vehicle unattended in Queen-street. For a similar offence at Khyber Pass, Henry Watson, a cabdriver, was fined 20s and { costs. Lewis Harold Howe was fined ss, and costs 7s, for allowing.his horse to wander at large in Upper Queen-street. Conrad Howell, alias Whiteside, charged with drunkenness, was remanded until tomorrow for medical treatment. •

i A boy named Gordon Smith pleaded I guilty to stealing 11 pigeons, valued at £3, the property of George Evans, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Rufino Gal salves, a 13-year-old boy, who was committed to an industrial school on Saturday last for theft, pleaded guilty to breaking and * entering the. dwelling of Richard StilweU,-and stealing goods to the value of £4 9s "and also guilty to breaks irig and entering the house of James Black, and stealing a ring. Defendant was convicted On both charges. Robert Elliott, who appeared in Court with the right side of his face covered in bandages, was fined 5s and costs, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Two first offenders were similarly dealt with, two were convicted and discharged on paying costs, and' two others, who did not appear, were ordered to forfeit the amount of bail (£1). Mr. J. E. Prendergast, solicitor, informed His Worship that the case in which Lydia Maud Reeves was applying for a separation order against her husband, Charles Reeves, had been . settled. The parties reside at Takapuna.