POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES ;/ ALLEGED VALUELESS CHEQUE. At the Police Court yesterday, /(before Messrs. A. P. Friend and Geo. Wilkinson, J-P.'s, a young man named Thomas Herbert '; Aitken was . proceeded against on a charge that he did on May 3, at Pahiatua, . obtain the sum of £3 ' by means of (false pretences by drawing a valueless cheque on the Bank of New Zealand, Dannevirke.-;.-.- . ("• .': '"-..' ( Chief-Detective Marsack asked for a; remand for eight days in order that accused might be; brought . before . the Court at Pahiatua. Mr. Hackett, who appeared for accused, said he did not object to the remand, but ; asked that reasonable bail might granted. Mr. Marsack stated that the present charge was one of a series that would probably be laid. Accused had , evidently had an idea of absconding. He was staying at a hotel in Auckland under an assumed name, and would ' probably v have been a passenger by the Maheno last evening had he not been ', arrested." Ho (Mr. Marsack) therefore asked that the bail might be made substantial. The Bench granted the remand, and allowed bail in two empties of £50 each or one in £100. . . : , ' =.„..' ..!»/■. . DAMAGING. A POUND. / // 1 James Johns was charged with injuring a pound at Morningside by sawing through one of. the rails on April \4. Defendant stated . that his »cow.. had been placed in the pound. Witness noticed that it had its head between the rails and was unable to free itself. He; went home and got a saw and cut the- rail, otherwise he considered the animal would have been injured. ;* Other evidence was given to show that the cow could have freed itself. The Bench said the offence, according to the. Impounding Act, was a serious one, and fined the accused £5 and costs 275. J A HOUSEHOLD SQUABBLE. Albert T. Ramsay was charged, on. two ' informations, with assaulting two'-•'- girls who were boarding at his house. The defendant, it appeared, had informed'" the girls that they would have to go else/ where, arid emphasised his remarks, /it was alleged, by pushing one- of the com-; plainants. In the course of their evidence the girls ■- admitted that they would not have laid the informations if they could have obtained their belongings from the house when they wanted to. The Bench considered that the action should ; not'have been brought before the Court, and accordingly dismissed the case. Mr. Matthews appeared for; the prosecution, and Mr. Moody for the defence. BY-LAW BREACHES. W. Delaney, a hawker, was fined 2s 6d and costs on "a charge of remaining standing in Queen-street longer than was necessary for the . transaction ;of business. >* J. W- French, /charged i with allowing horses to wander at large■/ at Mount "Albert, was convicted; and ; fined £2 and costs; Geoffrey Montgomery/was" convicted j and discharged on, a charge of allowing ! his horse to wander at large. , INTEMPERANCE. . -.'.": Patrick Walsh was charged with' being drunk in 'Federal-street on Tuesday. Accused is ; an old offender, this being/his eighth offence within six months. He was sentenced to three/ month's* imprisonment. Alice Sarah Radford, an : old ' woman, : was convicted on charges of being drunk and using obscene language, and was fined £5, or one month's ( imprisonment, and , a prohibition order was issued against her 1 ; for 12 months. . .*. ! -; Four first offenders/ charged with drunkI enness, were each fined ss, or ■ 24. hours.