POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15964, 8 July 1915, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

WOMAN'S SAD PLIGHT

: A SITTING of the Police Court was held yesterday, Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., pre- : siding. i i Jessie Fitzgerald, who appeared on a j charge of being an idle and disorderly i person, was; found walking about the streets in the rain late on Tuesday night. I She was wet through and informed the j constable who spoke to her that she had |no home. Her mind, Sub-Inspector McIlveney stated, appeared to bj weak, for ! she did not even know that she was in i Auckland. The magistrate decided to re--5 maud Fitzgerald for medical examination. ! A charge of being an idle and disorderly j person was made against a young man : named Harold Edward Johnston. The I accused was remanded for eight days to ! enable inquiries to be made as to whether ! the Defence Department was prepared to l accept him as a recruit and as to whether j the Justice Department intended to pro- ! reed against him for breaking the terms I of the license under which he had been released from custody. | A youth named John Homy Wood (Mr. I Warwick Wilson) was reminded for eight j days on two charges of theft. John Edward Murdoch, who appeared ' merely in a borrowed pair of trousers, a i borrowed shirt, and borrowed boots on 'a ehaige of steading a suit of clothes, an ! overcoat, and :>. Post Office Savings Bank j book of a total value of £9. the property i of John Reynolds, of Taumarunui. was re- : manded to appear at Taumarunui on .July 14. The police explained that it had been neeessarv to retain the goods alleged to have been stolen, and therefore th.t a.j i-jsed hail to be provided with other i clothes. Norman Smith, charged with driving a I ta.\i'ab without a license, was convicted [ mid discharged. Five first offenders on < harires of drunkenness were convicted and fined 5s oath, I while a military veteran of 81 rears of age ' W as c ip.i'tjd' and discharged. Another I first ofiftidc;- whs lined the amount of his I |~.'j] 10- Elizabeth Knight, a second ! offender. «as fined 10,. ' while Louis | lv.dien. '.vim ,: '' r! iippear.-d in the dock on i thiee stuiMtpsive 'lays, was ordered to be . imprisoned for 14 days. A young Maori mimed Papa'.a Kahui. who ,cfnseH to leave : licensed premises when asked to do so. !as he "object-Mi to lein-' -.hmked out : like a piece of panel." was fined £1. in i def 'tilt three days' imprisonment. On a I (-harae of drunkenness he was convicted j and discharged.