POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14133, 7 August 1909, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

. A BOOKMAKER'S CLERK. §1' $ 1 IP . HIS LEISURE TIME. Iffo At the Police Court yesterday, before ■$f?Mr. E. C. Cut ten, S.M., the police chargj, 5 ed Thos. Vaughan with being idle and disorderly, having insufficient lawful means of | H| support. The evidence brought in supSfal' port was that he was constantly wandering up and down the street, and consorted with thieves. |tj. jf~ Mr. W. E. Hackctt described his client as spending a good deal of his time in ' the Public Library. Vaughan further ac--1 counted for his time by stating that he ,>/ ' was a bookmaker's clerk, and earned good lll'V- money during the days he was employed,

and, being an unmarried man, could live , ' on little and could afford to do nothing v tho rest of his time. He did not drink or play billiards, smoked but little, ana spent his time going down the street, riding in tramcars, • and "one thing and anff;;' other." He could earn £100 to £150 a ; . year as a bookmaker's clerk. The Magistrate said that accused had

stilted that he had only worked five or

six days during the past two months, | , earning £4 12s 6d. That an able-bodied ft- man was content with this small amount ife of work indicated a peculiar state of affairs, and led to the suspicion that he

was making money from a source even

less reputable than that from which he V claimed to earn his livelihood. Accused

* was convicted, and ordered to come up ,:when called on.

DRUNKENNESS.

Allen Anderson was convicted of

;;' drunkenness and procuring liquor while prohibited, and was fined £1. Richard Bryant, charged with habitual drunkenness, was ordered to go to Pakatoa Island .for a year. Jas., alias John, Redmond, |£: charged with a third offence of drunkenness, was sent to gaol for three days. Jas. Francis Brockhill, who appeared on ■- remand, was fined 5s for drunkenness and /* ordered to pay expenses (17s 6d). For the fame offences Gerald Fitzgerald was fined 10s, Samuel Dobinson and a first offender ss, Philip Munro was convicted, and ordered to pay costs. Two first offenders : forfeited their bail by not appearing.

AN IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION.

i; r ? 5 Three penitent boys, not in their teens, » were charged with the theft of a bottle of lollies. Evidence was given that one •k ' boy went into a shop and stole the Ki/ bottle, and other boys, including the two charged, helped him to empty it. The magistrate ordered the parents of the boys - to pay the costs of the action, and sug- „ gested that they should admonish their J;„ 'sons in a suitable manner.

MISCELLANEOUS. Carl John Patterson was fined £3, in I: - default seven days' imprisonment, for procuring liquor while prohibited. g; Thos. Aitken was fined £5, in default one month's ' imprisonment, for entering Gleeson's and the Alexandra Hotels and procuring liquor while prohibited. t On the application of the police, the charge against Albert Sidney Chas. Snow.don, of robbing O. E. Smith and using personal violence, was withdrawn without r- prejudice. . Chas. Wing, alias Kron, who is charged with stealing two shirts and two towels, 7 ; and who maintains that he was given the articles, was further remanded. . Hugh Broadfoot was charged with having stolen one pair of boots, the property ' of George Elley. It was > alleged that Broadfoot took the Boots from a house, but accused said he got-ihe boots from a : ft servant. The magistrate held that the evi•V. dence did not warrant a conviction.