POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15481, 12 December 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

UNHEALTHY IMMIGRANT. MAN MUST RETURN TO ENGLAND. Charged with having landed in New Zealand, being a prohibited immigrant, James Bracken appeared at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. C. Cutten. S.M. A. S. Paterson, agent for tho steamer Dorset, said that on October 16 Bracken landed off the Dorset, in good faith as far as the health officers wero concerned and on account of internal hemorrhage he had to go to the hospital, the company having to enter into a bond of £100 to have him sent back again. But he disappeared from the institution, and they had been unable to find him, and it was then too late to place him on board tho Dorset to ho taken back to England.

The defendant stated that he had come out to New Zealand on the advice of his doctor. He left the hospital because lie became tired of waiting, but intended to return to the ship when it was able to leave. " I am just as anxious to get out of the country as they are to get me out," ho said, "and I am willing to do anything _to facilitate matters, but in the meantime I do not want to be treated like a criminal, as I was yesterday and to-day." The defendant was discharged, subject to his remaining at the hospital under bond of £10, until a ship can bo found to take him away.

CLEARING ' THE CITY. " A waster in every sense of the term," was Chief-Detective 'McMahon's description of Harold Edward Johnston, alias Johnson, a young man of 28 years, who was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, with insufficient means of support. The detective said that the accused was the son of most respectable parents, and owing to his drinking habits, which oxlcjided over a number of years, 'lie had practically broken their hearts. Unless they kept him he made the home unbearable. A sentence of two years' reformative treatment was imposed. " You seem to live in gaol," remarked the magistrate, after perusing the lengthy record of an old man named Lockwood Wright, who pleaded nliilby to the charge of being an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. A previous conviction for the same offence was included in the list, and lie was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with bard labour. " He has not done any work since ho came to Auckland. He simply hangs about hotels and lives on the lunches provided," said one of the three detectives who Rave evidence against James Doyle, alias Dare, who came before the Court on the charge of being an idle and disorderly person, with insufficient moans of support. Three months' hard labour was imposed. INSOBRIETY. For a second breach of his prohibition order, and drunkenness, Thomas Clements, alias Frank Clements, was fined £2, or seven days' imprisonment. Charles DineoJ. M)n and Thomas McWillinms were each lined £1, or three days, for drunkenness, and procuring liquor during the currency erf their prohibition orders. Nine first offenders were fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment, Another, who did ; not appear, was fined the amount of his bail, £1.

j MISCELLANEOUS. j For failing to keep his bicycle as neai as , practicable to (he left-hand side of the , street. Frank Weniger was convicted and | ordered to pay costs. ■ Leslie W. Nairn, Stanley Rowe, and Oswald Holmes were convieteu mid discharged for failing to render service under the Defence Act. I '