POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14146, 23 August 1909, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A LAZY YOUNG MAN. "LOAIING" ON HIS PARENTS. James Henry Sloane, 22 years of age, ■who, according to his parents, has loafed on them for the past two years, never gets up till 10 in the morning, seldom goes homo till after midnight, and then frequently in a, state of drunkenness, and who never attempts to get employment, was charged before Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., at. the Police Court on Saturday with being an idle and disorderly person, not having sufficient, means of support. He was convicted, and remanded for a week, to soo if the magistrate could get, him employment. A "ROWDY'S" PUNISHMENT. George Edward Morris, the "hero" of the fire on Monday last, who had assaulted two volunteers and a police officer, and 'had been convicted at the Police Court last Tuesday, and remanded for sentence, stepped into the dock again. The police report stated that accused had been knocking about and consorting with reputed thieves during the. last rive weeks, and Vrardod at the same house with a. millilev of reputed law-breakers. He was not, bowevec. addicted to drink. Despite the rfforts of Mr. Haekett, who pleaded hard for the alternative of' a fine, accused was sentenced to one week's imprisonment on each charge. THEFT OF TOOLS. , John Pye appeared on remand for sentence on five separate charges of stealing various tools. Mr. Kettle remarked that "accused had said he had stolen the goods to obtain money to buy food for his starving wife and two children. Accused's wife, however, had said that drink was the cause, and that he had once had a blowon the head, which, when he took drink, caused him to commit the thefts. Mr. Kettle said he was satisfied that accused had stolen the articles to obtain money to buy drink. He, Mr. Kettle, would take into consideration the fact that accused had been in gaol a week, and would sentence him to seven days' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. A prohibition order was also ordered to lie issued against accused for a jeriod of 12 months. "A DISSOLUTE LIFE." Charles Kron, alias King, who had been acquitted a few days previously on a charge of stealing shirts and towels, made his reappearance in the dock, this time on a charge of drunkenness. "You have a long record of dissolute life," remarked the magistrate to accused. "I hope you • will give him a sentence which will galvanise him," said Sub-Inspector Hendry. "Very well," replied Mr. Kettle, "I shall give him the maximum penalty allowed by the law. He will be fined £3, with an alternative of seven days' imprisonment. Unfortunately, I cannot give him more. He will also be made the subject of a prohibition order for 12 months." MISCELLANEOUS. **gnes McMillan, alias Fitzgerald, a woman of middle age, who was alleged by the police to have been recently found with an infant child almost dead, and to be an ardent lover of methylated spirits, was convicted, and had a prohibition order issued against her for 12 months. A like penalty was inflicted upon Thomas Fletcher, whilst a first offender was convicted and discharged. Bert Smith, for whom Mr. Allan Moody ■ appeared, was remanded till to-day on a charge of having on or about May 1, at Whakatane, committed a criminal offence ©n a girl under the age of 14 years. On a charge of attempting to commit suicide at Helensville by cutting his wrists, Henry Bailey, who pleaded guilty, was remanded for a week for medical treatment and to see what the magistrate could do for him in the way of obtaining employment.