POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14491, 4 October 1910, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THREE MONTHS' HARD LABOUR.

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., Thomas Baxter, who is at present serving a term of six months' imprisonment for theft, came up for sentence on seven charges of false pretences. A sentence of hard labour was passed on every charge, all the sentences to bo concurrent with the one prisoner is now serving. PLAIN-CLOTHES POLICE. For importuning foot passengers in Wyndham-etreet, on Friday night, Florrie Scott was convicted and sentenced to one month's hard labour. Richard Crisp was charged with having assisted Scott in tho commission of an offence. Mr. Alan Moody, appeared for the accused, . who pleaded not guilty. Crisp appeared to be a, foolish young man, and had come to Auckland from the country to enjoy himself. The enjoyment he chose was of a disreputable sort, and he got himself into trouble by endeavouring to lead into temptation two young men, who turned out to be constables in plain clothes. The magistrate said that tho facts were not the same as were usually alleged in cases of the kind, and he dismissed the case. A TROUBLESOME COOK. John Russell, a seafaring cook, was convicted of wilfully damaging a cash regietor to the value of £2 2s, the property of Constandine Melville. Prisoner went into a restaurant belonging to the prosecutor a few nights ago drunk, and ; deliberately knocked tho register off the counter. He was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour. INTEMPERANCE. Yesterday a. passenger from the steamer | Cornwall, named Roderick Murray, made his second appearance in six days, and was fined ss, or 24 hours. Catherine Reilly, for being drunk in Mount Eden railway station on Saturday night, was fined £1, or three days. Fines of 10s were inflicted upon Patrick Scarrot, Richard Loder, Louis Fredericksen, John Denny, David Fulton Ferguson, and John Stanton. Seven first offenders were fined ss, two convicted and discharged, and two forfeited bail of £1. Percy Humphries was fined. ss, MISCELLANEOUS. Robert Niccol, a fish wker, was fined ss, costs 7s, for standing too long with his handcart in Queen-street. Ho had previously tor»>n warned. Kate Gillies, a young married woman, was convicted of having kept a disorderly house, and of being an idle and disorderly person, with insufficient lawful means of support, and' procuring liquor while prohibited. She was committed to tho Salvation Army Reformatory for 12 months. Mary O'Keefo was charged with having assisted in the management of the house, but the charge against her was dismissed. William Thomas, about 30 years of age, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person. The information was dismissed.