POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

♦ "' SHORT LIST OF CASES. DEFENCE ACT PROSECUTIONS.

For failing to render personal service the following territorials were dealt with by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday: John Cunningham, Manuel Peters, Laurence W. Wiles, J. Stonoham, Nicholas Hutchinson, L. Fletcher, Thomas Raihu, Lindsay Jack, and Arthur , Harold Blennerhassett, convicted and ordered to pay costs; John Roe, H. Dawson, and L. Baraclough, convicted and discharged; S. Zainey, Edward Beech, R. J. Dowsing, Francis H. Hayes, R. Hodges, S. F. Jarkers, Thed. McGill, F. Sanders, Stanley Sanders, Frederick Taylor, Evan J. York, and John Adoph, fined £2 and costs; Sidney Fairweather fined £3 and costa; George Samuel Tilby, fined £1 and costs; Alex. Walton and Vincent Bcrbcck, fined 10s and costs. On a charge of stealing money and jewellery, to the total value of £8 10s, Edith Isabella Floyd, a young girl, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called up. Sho will not be called on provided she remains for two years in the Door of Hope rescue homo. Two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. One first offender forfeited the amount of her bail, and another was fined 4s. A charge of stealing a sickle, a pair of boots, and two books, valued at £1 lis 6d, was preferred against James Whitford and' dismissed. Tho accused was fined 5s for drunkenness. Arthur Scott, charged with drunkenness, using obscene language, and assaulting Harry Wolfe, was fined 10s for drunkenness and prohibited, the other charges being dismissed. A month's imprisonment with hard labour was imposed in the case of John Rowan, a recent arrival from Australia, who was arrested under suspicious circumstances at tho rear of Cargen, a lwardinchcm.se in Waterloo Quadrant, and charged with being ,an idle rmd disorderly person. Chief-Defective McMnhon paid that clothes wero missing from tho boardinghouse, and tho accused was suspected of keeping watch for another man who had committed the thefts. Because ho failed to keep to the left while turning from Khyber Pass Road into Symonds Street, James F. Wriglcy, a motor-cyclist, was fined 5s and costs.