POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15711, 11 September 1914, Page 3

POLICE COURT NEWS.

volunteer in trouble.

" SERVICES NOT WANTED."

Charms of being disorderly while drunk and of breaking a tramcar window were preferred in the Police Court yesterday against a member of the New Zealand expeditionary force. Sydney John Bickerton. Sergeant Cahill said that the military authorities desired court proceedings to be taken, 33 they intended to dispense with the accused's services.

Evidence was given by members of the military police on patrol duty last night that Bickerton was drunk and disorderly j and when accosted produced an unsigned j pass to account for overstaying his leave : from camp. While being taken to the I camp in a tramcar, Bickerton had struggled ' and pushed a isan through a window. i The military police had then given the mail in charge of the civil authority, and he had been locked up in the Mount Eden police station. Messrs. George Roberts and W. Coltman J.P. 6 , ho were on the Bench, fined the accused 5s for being drunk and hi and costs for breaking the window. DEAFNESS THE CAUSE. . " J 0311 tell a tramcar is approaching by the shaking of the ground, said a deaf witness who had been run over, and was responsible for the appearance in Court .of Alien John Roberts on. charges of driving in a negligent manner and exceeding the speed limit over the intersection of Queen and Victoria Streets. I can even hear a cart coming," continued witness, " but these motor horns• I cannot, pick them at all." Roberts was fined 10s and costs for exceeding the speed limit, but the other charge was dismissed, the Bench holding j that the deafness of the man who was 1 Iran over was the real cause of the 1 accident. LICENSING CASES. The licensees of the Star and Waitemata Hotels, George Hyde and John j Endean respectively, were charged with j ; selling liquor to intoxicated persons. The cases wore adjourned until Friday next, and a similar adjournment was made in the cases in which two barmen were charged with supplying the liquor. MAINTENANCE. On a charge of failing to comply with an order of £1 a week in support of his wife, Arthur Thomas Lomas was convicted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as he paid off the 'arrears at the rate of 2s 6d a week and continued the payments on the original order. DRUNKENNESS. A second offender for drunkenness, Mabel Morgan, forfeited the amount of her bail, £1, and a first offender for drunkenness was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. For drunkenness Henry Thompson was convicted and discharged, and for breaking his prohibition, order a fine of £1 was inflicted. NEIGHBOURS AT VARIANCE. An incident which occurred on August 10 in Totara. Avenue brought Henry Green and Francis MacKav into Court on a charge of using threatening behaviour. A witness stated that Green had told MacKay to be careful of some brambles or he would hurt himself. "Be careful, or I'll hurt you," replied MacKay. Green asked " How In the fight which followed, lie was not certain whether Green had taken off his coat before MaoKay struck his opponent with a sticfi ana received in return a "knock-out" blow on the chin. , Each of the contestants claimed that he_ acted in self-defence. They were neighbours, and admitted that ill-feeling existed between them. MacKay considered that Green's first remark had been made in a sneering manner, and said that his neighbour had repeatedly challenged him to fight. Both were fined 20s and costs, in default seven days' imprisonment. A CARTER FINED. A fine of £10 and costs was imposed in the case in which William Smith (Mr. R. B. TowleJ was charged with the theft of a sack of oats, valued at 12s, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company. It was stated that the accused, a carrier, had put another sack on his load after having been given hifc ticket by a tally clerk on the Queen's Wharf. The magistrate held that the explanation of the accused that he had taken one bag off and put another on because the brands were wrong was unsatisfactory. Chief-Detective McMahon prosecuted. MISCELLANEOUS. For cycling on the footpath at Northcote, Edwin Smith, John W. Bramley, Frederick Mitchell, and Eric Gunman were each fifed 5s and costs'. For allowing his chimney to catch fire, John Breadhurrt was fined Is and costs. 1