POLICE COURT NEWS.
♦ — YOUNG SEAMAN FINED. A toukg seaman, Eric Ericksen, was charged in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., with insobriety and assaulting Johannes Nickolaison. Sub-Inspector Hendrey said that accused I was engaged as a day labourer on board the Triton. He had an altercation with the captain over wages, and then went ashore and got drunk. He returned, picked np the ship's cat, swung it round his head two or three times, and then dashed it against the bulwarks. When Captain Nicholaison remonstrated with him, he assaulted him. Accused was fined £2, in default seven days in gaol. A SERIOUS CHARGE. Wm. Robert Garner was charged that on February 14, he seriously assaulted a girl of 17 years of age. Accused, who reserved his defence, pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial at the Supremo Court. Bail, two sureties of £150, was allowed. MISCELLANEOUS. George Schofield was fined £1 for drunkcnntoo, vVn;. McLean 10s, a first offender ss, another convicted and discharged, and a, female was ordered to pay 15s for the medical treatment she had received. Ernest Hill, who, besides being drunk, had also committed an indecent act, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14930, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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