POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14868, 20 December 1911, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A RACECOURSE TRESPASS. In tho civil.case of John F. Haitland v. John Lovelock, brought before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., at the Police Court' yesterday, the defendant was charged with unlawfully trespassing on the Ellerslie racecourse on November 4. It appeared that defendant had been a. bookmaker's clerk, and the Racing Club had put up a notice intimating that bookmakers' clerks would be excluded from the course. Defendant put in an appearance, but was sent away by. Detective Scott, and his entrance money returned him. He went away, but returned, and was again warned off. The defendant admitted that he had been a bookmaker's clerk, but said he was no» betting on the course, and was not aware that any notice of the character described had been posted.- He was convicted and fined £5, or 14 days. Mr. R. P. Towlo appeared for tho complainant, and Mr. R. A. Singer for defendant. A WORKSHOP QUARREL. A carpenter named William Morris, charged a fellow workman named Bert England with assault. " It appeared that both men were carpenters, employed at a factory in Ponsonby. In November last they had a difference over their work, the plaintiff having accused defendant of injuring one of the tools, and when they left work the assault took place. Accused admitted the assault, but pleaded provocation. He was fined £3, with £2 6s costs, half the fine to go to the plaintiff. , ; MISCELLANEOUS.". \ A young woman named Margaret Beatrice "McNeill was charged with vagrancy, but was seized with an epileptic fit in the dock. She was carried out of Court by two constables. On her recovery, about half half an hour later, she appeared to have regained her normal condition, and was convicted and sentenced to seven days' hard labour. ••"*...•' A .man named Innis Soares, who had failed to pay 8s a week towards the maintenance of his eon in an industrial school, and whoso payments are now £2 16s in arrears, was convicted and fined 10s. DRUNKENNESS. . Harriett Kelly," an old woman, was convicted on a charge of drunkenness, and fined 5s or 48 hours' imprisonment. On a second charge of being an idle and disorderly person, she was remanded until Friday. Fredk. ■ Woolley, for a breach of his prohibition ; order, was fined £2, with 7s costs, alternatively seven days' imprisonment. . Frederick Johnson, for a breach of his prohibition order, was fined £5, or a month's imprisonment, His Worship declining to allow him time to.obtain the money for the payment of the fine. John Davis, who while drunk had assaulted a man in Queen-street, was fined £2, or seven days. A second offender named John Anderson was ordered to pay 10s, in the alternative 48 hours' imprisonment. ' '~.■",- ;• ■'•

FINE OF .TWENTY POUNDS. Violet Barron, a young Frenchwoman, convicted on a charge of "keeping a disorderly house in Grey-street, was fined £20, with £3 12s costs. On the application of her solicitor, Mr. Quartloy, leave was given to appeal on questions of law and fact, the security being fixed at £15.