POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 3

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ROBBED THE BOARDERS.

A new arrival in the cotmtrv, a young man named James Clark, pleaded guilty to three charges of theft before Mr. E. C. Cutten, 8.M., in the Police Court yesterday, and elected to be dealt with summarily. He had stolen from various boardinghouses a watch, chain, and medal, valued at £3, £2 10s in money, and a rifle and two cigarette cases, valued at £1. These articles the accused sold to second-hand dealers. A sentence of two months' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed, His Worship saying that it was not a case for probation. INTEMPERANCE. Three first offenders, convicted of insobriety, were cautioned by Mr. P. Mackay, J.P., and discharged without penalty. Frederick Watson, who adopted a pugnacious attitude when ejected from an hotel, was fined 10s for being disorderly while drunk. John Stanton and John McCartney, who respectively used obscene language and committed an indecent act whilst under the influence of liquor, were each fined £2, with an alternative of seven days' hard labour. A young Maori named Waka Houkura, who refused to leave the Waitemata Hotel when requested so to do, was fined £l,or three days' imprisonment in default. MISCELLANEOUS. Having driven his vehicle across the intersection of Symonds Street and Khyber Pass Road at a speed greater than a walking pace, Thomas Dawthwait was fined 10s and 7s costs. Oswald Spiller, who rode his bicycle on a footpath at Devonport, was fined 5s and 7s costs. Pleading guilty to having moored his boat in a protected anchorage, Albert Williams was ordered to pay 23s costs.