POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13949, 4 January 1909, Page 6

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A THIRD REMAND. \.T the Police Court on Saturday morning, >efore Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., Margaret J ickerell was brought up a second time on ernand charged with being idle and disorlerly and an undesirable character. After the evidence of the gadl surgeon Dr. Darby) a further remand till Tuesday VAs granted to that friends of the defendant might bo consulted as to their willingicss to send her to relations in tho country hould she be released. LOSS OF MEMORY. Joseph Pinto, a Belgian, aged 54- years, nado his reappearance at the Court on a ;harge of being a prohibited immigrant. Since he was first proceeded against three or our months ago Pinto's health lias necossiated hospital treatment, and he has been emanded from time to time. His condition s still v?ry low, but he was ablo to repeat n tn intelligent manner the story of his supDosed loss of memory between an occasion ,vhtn he drove with his brother-in-law to ,h© waterside at San Francisco, and on iwakening to his whereabouts on board the toamer Tofua, bound from Fiji to Auckand. Mr. Kettle ordered a further remand till ;his morning. Before Messrs. D. B. Wallaco and J. D. Walters, justices of the peace, W. Perry was charged with the theft of a rug, valued at .4s, from a resident of Ngaruawahia, on December 24, and on tho application of Stationiorgeant Hondry was remanded to appear it Ngaruawahia to-day.