POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14985, 6 May 1912, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

RESISTING THE. POLICE. 'A TorNGman named Daniel Gray, who stated that he .had only been in the conntry a few months, appeared before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., at the Police Court on Saturday, to answer tea charge of being drank and resisting the police, and also with taking a watch and chain, valued at 9s 6d, from Wm. Brothers, a Maori. Evidence was given that accused and Brothers met near the United Service Hotel, and accused began to abuse Brothers, and finally, when Brothers was pulled away by.his friends, he snatched the Maori's watch. Evidence as to Gray's arrest was given, it being stated that he '1 was practically mad, and fought all the way to the police station. His Worship said it was not a serious case, the theft of the watch being only a V drunken frolic. Accused was fined £2 and ',:- costs. . _______________ ■ INCITING TO RESIST. A respectable-looking young man, Henry t Dormer, was charged that he incited a drunken man named Gray to resist the .police, and also that he used obscene , language. Accused pleaded that he had forgotten all about it. Tho magistrate 'said that, although it was a serious charge, ■ he did not think accused was responsible ;, lat the time. He would therefore impose J: V; a fine of £5 and costs. ?' - ' DRUNKENNESS. • A first offender was fined 5s for drunken- £ ' ness. For a' second offence of drunkenness V within the past six months, George Page : was fined 10s, or 48 hours in gaol. ■'• Wm. George Mcßride was convicted : and discharged on a charge of drunkenness on the undertaking ihat he would take out '.' a prohibition order against himself. An elderly woman, Mary Ann Gibba, , -WftS sentenced to seven days' hard labour for being drunk and soliciting. ;'' F»r being drunk and behaving in a dis- " orderly manner, Martin Clancy was fined ','.los. '. For a breach of his prohibition order, Walter Humby was fined £1, or in default v'r .three days' imprisonment. ''' I For his fourth offence of drunkennes re- > e»--)tlv, William Thos. Jackson was ordered to take out a prohibition order . against himself, and was discharged. , F Wm. Scott Carroll, who had been convicted of drunkenness several times within ..the past few months, was fined £1, or ; three davs in gaol. An elderly man, Robert John Sinclair, who was charged with being drunk and committing a grossly indecent act in Little Qneen-street, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, and was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour on the charge of indecency. A prohibition order ' ■J'aa also ordered to bo taken out against aim. '