POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

WEEK-END CELEBRATIONS.

Thirteen cases, the result of over-indulg-ence in liquor during the week-end, occupied the attention of Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. Gustave Allgreen pleaded guilty to having been disorderly while drunk in Nelson Street. Although not arrested until 10,30 p.m. on Saturday, the accused, said the [senior-servant, was really disorderly all the afternoon. Ho had been keeping company with a young lady, but when he called and found that sho was not at home ho stood in the street and roundly abused everyone in the houso and anyone* who walkcd'past. Coup!id with his abuse was a challenge to fight anyone. Presently a man came along, and, accepting the challenge, administered a good thrashing to Allgreen, whose face bore very visible marks of the conflict. _ Hie Worship said that the physical punishment received by Allgreen would ik. btless meet the case, an 1 lie wou!.! be ordered to pay the costs, wnich amounted to 6s. "You are t'irtinc rr ev young: cut out the liquor for the ■ J i two or three i years and t'h«'i r.w if ii is good for you," ! \:,A His Wor.'ip t(. n-a ,J Spencer, .id '19, who '', A f4 gn : ij to having ■ r,d n'tfccii- i...:(. in ' 'i",toms Street. Spencer, who was under the influence of liquor, had been .'efuftd admission to a tram. It was then that ho ~iade use of the language complained of, and this reached the cars of a constable standing 10yds away. The night spent in the lock* up, His Worship t, 'd, would have given j>p*nccv time for reflection, so, in view of his oi'Mi a fine : only £1 would be impor.d. His i/orsfcip warned Spencer that there wcA-l be a heavier penalty next, time, ."i:! fuggested to the police that they m warn the establishment, the liiuijf of which the accused gave, to

bo careful in supplying port-wine to youths, the accused having said that one glass of port was responsible for the episode. ~- A fine of £2, with the alternative of 60ven dart' imprisonment, was imposed upon Ephraim Gliomas, who admitted having been di'ordcrly while dr-unii in Karangahapo Road and breaking his prohibition order. He had been cwillmging all and sundry to a fistic combat and waving his umbrella in a very threatening manner. Eight first offenders wore convicted of drunkenness. Three, having been loched up since Saturday, were discharged. Three others, who did not appear, each forfeited their I.os bail. The other two were fined 5s each. Walter Philip McCarthy was fined 10s for his second recent offence, Hendry Bc-esford, another secona off en" dcr. fined only s?'. as he had been loci, en -n for two nights. May martin Gorstad, who plead* ,'uilty last '•'• ek In a, charge of vngranc, . v'* yesterday ordered to come up !>r ser r.,' "hen called upor.. th* ••.">mn*> having 'inI dertuken to renin.n with the Salvation Armv authorities for the next 12 months.