POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15728, 1 October 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

SHORT LIST OF cases. A KUJimSa of cases were dealt with by Mr. E. C. Cutton, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. The usual penalty of a flue of 5s was imposed upon five first offenders!, convicted of insobriety, whilst an absent first offender was fined £1, the amount of his bail. One first offender, being only a youth, was discharged without any penalty for bis lapse beyond a conviction. Charles McGeahan, convicted of being disorderly while drunk, and of a breach of his prohibition order, was stated to be a perfect nuisance. This being his fifth recent oti'ence, he was fined £3, the alternative being fixed at a month in gaol. Ada Warner, who admitted being drunk for the fourth tune recently, and also breaking her prohibition order, was remanded until to-morrow, pending inquiries about her character.

A youth named Leslie Bolton, 19 years of age, who was stated to bo a secret drinker, was committed to Roto Boa for 12 months, having been convicted of a breach of his prohibition order. John Batt and William Henry Bollard, two seamen who had absented themselves without leave from the Pakeha and Corinthic respectively, were sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, Batt for seven days and Bollard for fourteen. Each man will be placed on board his vessel should she leave New Zealand waters in the meantime.

Having wilfully broken a pane of glass when he was ejected from some diningrooms, Joseph Harding was ordered to pay 12s, the amount of the damage, j The charge against John Charles Con | nolly of hav.pg assaulted his wife wa 1 withdrawn or f-,e undertaking to go back t. - R0..0 Roa for six month Having committed a grossly indecen'. act in Weivrp Park, Frederick Edw ; i, Webb was st it Meed to two month?' imprisonment p _th hard labour. John Davis 'v;*s sentenced to a month'-, hard labour on a charge of vagrancy, while on a similar charge Lockwood Wright, who v?,.» stated to have- a very bad record, wis sent to gaol for a year. The secretary of the Auckland Grocers' 1 Assistants' Union, Rovston Gordon Graham, was -parsed with the theft o? £22 5s 6d be or.eing to the r,.. io-n. He was remandeu for a week, bail being allowed in two sureties of £75 each.