POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 3

POLICE COURT NEWS.

SHORT LIST OF CASES.

A short list of cases came before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., at the Police CoSirt on Saturday. John Mulhausen, an A.B. on the ship Invortay, was convicted and discharged on a charts of assaulting another A.B. when on the high seas. A volunteer who had been arrested at tho Gimp at Epsom, Douglas Batt, was remanded to appear at Nelson on a charge of failing to provide for his illegitimate child. One first offender on a charge of drunkenness was convicted and discharged, another was prohibited, and a third was fined tho amount of his bail£l.

A man, 38 years of age, named John Haves, admitted having been drunk for the fifth time during the past six months, and further admitted having committed breaches of his prohibition order. Ho did not remember using obsccno language when a man had refused to partake of his hospitality and have a drink with him, and pleaded that ho should ho given a chance of carrying into effect his avowed intention of joining tho expeditionary force. Tho magistrate convicted him on all tho charges, and ordered him to bo imprisoned for 14 days on tho last count.