POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14019, 26 March 1909, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A NEIGHBOURS' GRIEVANCE. At the Polico Court yesterday, before Messrs. W. A. Thompson and E. T. Tizard, justices of th© peace, Henry Swinley, aged 16, who is employed as a hotel pantry.hand, was charged with having committed an offensive act, and made use of insulting words towards Ada Jansen, wife of a seafaring man.' The- complainant prayed that th© defendant be bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Bloomfield, who appeared for the complainant, stated that Mrs. Janson had been repeatedly insulted by the defendant when passing her residence. He was in the habit of poking his tongue. out at her, calling her 'an old Dutch woman, and. telling her that she had better go back to Port Adelaide, where she had come from. Postcards containing disgusting expressions had been coming through tho post to her address, even as late as that morning, and his client attributed their authorship to the defendant. Mr. Hackett appeared for tho defendant, who swore on oath that he had never poked his tongue out at the complainant, that he had not used insulting words towards her, and that he had no knowledge whatever of tlio postcards which she had received. Ho submitted a specimen of his writing to the justices. The witness stated that he had had occasion to insist upon the complainant leaving his mother's house some time before the date of the alleged offence, owing to her disrespectful references to some of their friends. ! After hearing the evidence, the Bench dismissed the case. REMANDED CASES. / Before Messrs. Trevethick and Walker, William Jarvis,, an elderly man, was remanded on the application of Chief -Detective Marsack until tho 31st inst. upon a charge of having broken and entered the shop of Jacob Zimman, and stolen a brief-bag, an umbrella, a packet of tea, and a quantity of cigars, of a total value of 15s 3d. _ ■■■ * A week's remand was granted in th© case of Joseph Finn, who was arraigned on_ a charge of having assaulted Walter Martin, and used profane language in His Majesty's Theatre. : '■ . .- ' MISCELLANEOUS. ' Fines were imposed in the cases of parents failing to send their children to school regularly as follows: —Sarah Stewart, 8s; Ward Wilson, 6s; Joseph Millar, 8s; David McQuoid, 10s; Harold Good, 8s; Alfred Bond, 16s. In tho case of Peter McCab© (dismissed) the truant inspector protested that the justices had no power to dismiss the case in the absence of the defendant. _ Charles Shrugg, for having wheeled a milkdandy along the footpath in Khyber Pass, was fined 10s and costs. Margaret Wilkie, for having been drunk in Main South Road, received a sentence of 14 days ' 'imprisonment. One first offender failed to appear, and forfeited bail, while a second was fined 5s and costs, in default, 24 hours in gaol. ~■ i