POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14507, 22 October 1910, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

WINE FOR SERVICES RENDERED.

A sitting of Ihe Police Court was held yesterday, Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., presiding. A winegrower named Charles Metcalfe, residing at Swanson, which is in the no-license district of Eden, was charged with selling wine to Mrs. Wilson. Mr. Skelton, who appeared for the defendant, pointed out that Mrs. Wilson had relieved, defendant of a certain work, and it was as payment for this service that Metcalfe gave her a quantity of wine. There had been no sale. The case was dismissed. DRUNKENNESS. For drunkenness, Pat Doddy was fined £1, Christina Hoyle 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment, Joseph Edmonds ss, Matteo Stimay ss, Robert Kirk ss, Henry E. Roy £51. A man named James Trueman, a prohibited person with a long list of convictions for drunkenness, appeared to answer a charge of procuring liquor while prohibited. He was fined £5. A barmaid for supplying the liquor to the man, was fined 10s, and costs 7s. MISCELLANEOUS. Sydney H. G. Doyle appeared to answer charges of stealing a watch valued at £5, the property of W. H. Cliff, a pendant, valued at 10s. and 17s 6d in money belonging to A. Adler, a gold watch and chain valaed at £45 Is, the property of Victor Cornagan, and other jewellery belonging to Walter Sainsbury, of the value of £1 18s. The accused was remanded till' Monday Maud Hughes, a young woman, charged with importuning, arid with being a rogue with no means of support, was sentenced to 12 months' detention in the Salvation Army Reformatory Home. Another young girl, Hazel Stanley, on a similar charge, pleaded to be allowed to work, and when she learned from the magistrate that she was to follow Maud Hughes, she vigorously protested that she would escape from the home. Her period of detention in the home was also fixed at 12 months. On a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, and being found on the premises of Mrs. Pearce, William Hansen was remanded for a week. Andrew Kelly, for being ' drunk and using obscene, language, was sentenced to seven days' hard labour. William Henry Ormond, a storekeeper at Northco whose premises wore alleged to be in a filthy 6tate, was prosecuted by the Northcote Borough Council, and pleading guilty, was fined 10s, and costs £2. A young man was convicted and discharged for driving a taxi-cab in Queenstreet without having a license.