POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15142, 5 November 1912, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGES OF VAGRANCY.

A LE.VGTBT list of cases was dealt with by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday.

Claude Clarence Neville, charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, and also with drunkenness and a breach of his prohibition order, was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour.

A charge of being an idle and disorderly person, jmd of having solicited alms in Grey-street, was' preferred against Joseph Morgan. The evidence showed that the accused had violently abused a man who refused to give him money. He was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

INTEMPERANCE. L For insobriety, three first offenders were each fined ss, while two others, who failed to ' appear, were ordered to forfeit their £1 bail Another, who had spent the week-end in the cells, was convicted and discharged. Rae Price, Peter. Robinson, James Bowden, and Seime Maiiutagn, for their second offences, were each find 10s, with the alternative of 48 hours. On a charge of drunkenness, coupled with a breach of his prohibition order, Joseph •McHugh was fined £2. William Williams, a third offender, was prohibited and fined £1, in default three days in gaol. . Peter Hogan, a seafaring man. hobbled into the Court on crutches to answer a charge of drunkenness on July 24 last. .He had' been picked up in Customs-street in an intoxicated condition, and was found to bo suffering from a broken leg. Since then he had been in the hospital for a considerable lime; He was prohibited for 12 months, and not yet being fitted for hard work, was consigned to the care of the Sailors' Home for a period. While in an . intoxicated condition, Thomas McKeown went to his mother's residence, and accidentally smashed four panes of glass, valued at 2& 6d. • Hia, insobriety constituted a breach "'his prohibition order, and on' this count he was yesterday fined £3 with 7s 6d costs. Hewas also ordered to make good the dama°\j he had done. " °

MISCELLANEOUS. A charge of cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it while it was suffering from a sore back, was preferred against M Dommachio and H. Turner. The defendants were each fined £2, with costs. On a charge of having driven a lon-v----at other than a walking pace across the intersection of Queen and Customs Streets Alfred Berquist was fined ss, with 7s costs'