POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15263, 29 March 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

DEATH OF A POUNDKEEPER.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

A fairly long list of cases was dealt with by Mr. E. C. S.M., at the Police Gout yesterday. An echo of the death of a poundkeeper named George Henry Hill on March 6] was heard, when James Evans a ship's fireman, cam© tip to answer charges of

assault and manslaughter. Inspector McGrath withdrew the charge of common assault, and asked that the accused be further remanded for a week on the charge of manslaughter. Mr. A. E. Skelton, representing the accused, agreed to the adjournment, but considered that his client should be admitted to bail. The magistrate said it was impossible for liin to fix a moderate bail, as the charge was a serious one, and added that any bail he might fix would more than probably be prohibitive as far as Evans was concerned. However, the accused would be remanded for a week, and bail allowed in two sureties each of £200. REFORMATIVE TREATMENT. A plea of guilty was entered by William George Edward Wheeler, a young man, 19 years of age, who was charged with stealing £6 from the shop of Henry Bullen, a bootmaker. It was explained by Inspector McGrath that Wheeler was left in charge of the shop, and during the absence of the oWner committed the theft. The same evening he was taxed with the theft by a constable, and after he had denied the charge £5 7s was found concealed in his hat. Wheeler had been previously convicted of forgery, and at the present time was on probation. Mr. .Cutten said it was an unusual thing to do in view of the fact that the accused had a previous conviction, but he would give him another chance. Accused would be sentenced to a term of reformative treatment, not to exceed 12 months. MEN FROM THE STOKEHOLD. Men from the stokehold of the steamer' Opawa figured upon the charge sheet. Three of them, John Oswald Elector, William, Mills, and Thomas Keller, all of Whom were trimmers, pleaded guilty to drunkenness and using threatening behaviour. It was explained that the men came ashore, primed themselves up with several drinks, and then proceed to settle some old grievances. S Each was fined 10s on , the charge of using , threatening behaviour, and convicted and discharged on the other count. A fireman from the Opawa, named John Devine, was found guilty Of having assaulted John Oswald Hector, a trimmer, while at sea, Devine, it was stated, domineered over his mates. In the present case he ordered the trimmer to fetch some drinking water, and the latter, refusing, he , attacked him with a fireman's tool. Sentence was deferred for a week, SO that the accused might be kept in . custody' during the ship's temporary absence from Auckland.

THEFT FROM LUGGAGEROOM. A labourer named Thomas Bryce was found guilty of stealing a portmanteau from the railway station, and also of stealing minor articles from a boardinghouse. Bryce, it was stated, went to the railway lugeageroom on Monday last for" his mate's luggage, Mid while there appropriated another .man's portmanteau. Subsequently he slashed it open, but before he could make any use of the articles contained therein he was arrested. Prior to his arrest, however, he managed to steal several small articles, the property of his mate. He was sentenced to three months'. Imprisonment,- with hard labour, on the first charge, and to a month's imprisonment with hard labour on the second count, the sentences to be concurrent. "*

CRAGO AGAIN REMANDED. ! The youth Ilobin Jasper Crago, who had previously been remanded upon a charge of attempting to murder Percy Robert Skeates and Robert James Karma, again appeared, but was further remanded for a week. MISCELLANEOUS. j A young man named Thomas Stewart pleaded not guilty to a charge of being I a rogue and a vagabond, but admitted having 4 b&e*n found on premises by night Without any lawful excuse Inspector | McGrath said he did .not. think the ac-1 cused was on the premises with intent to commit a crime, _ and further explained that he had been in gaol for the past three days. The magistrate considered , that the man had been Sufficiently punished, and therefore convicted and discharged Mm. Charles Anderson, who admitted driving a vehicle along Pottsonby Road oh the night of February 30, without a light, explained that the light went out just before the appearance of the constable.* He was ordered to pay the costs of the proceedings ■>'/ - '

For motoring furiously in Khyber Pass George T. Wilson was fined 20b, and ordered to pay costs amounting to 19s. ; James Driscoll was found guilty of stealing a suit of clothes belonging .to his mate, but, in consideration of the fact that previously he had borne a good character, he was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. For failing to have his motor-car properly lighted William Henry Hamblin was fined ss.

Four first offenders were convicted on ! charges of drunkenness, and fined 5s each, while a statutory first offender was convicted and fined 10s. James Downey, George McCauley, and Arthur Edward Hill, all of whom had been found on licensed premises during the currency of prohibition orders, were each fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. Charges of having carried offensive matter through Symonds Street and of having left his cart standing in the street for -a longer time than was necessary for the delivery of goods, were preferred against Alexander Stewart. He admitted having carried stable manure through SymonJa Street, and explained that he was entirely innocent of the fact that he was doing wrong; in fact he had b<fcn doing the same things for the last two years, and during that time had never previously been spoken to about the practice. He was convicted and fined 10s, and ordered to pay the costs in connection with the first count and on the second was convicted and dis! charged.

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