POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16121, 8 January 1916, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

BOOKMAKER AT ELLERSLIE. FIXE OF £20 IMPOSED. A TorVn nametT Norman William Carson, aged 20. pleaded guilty at the Police ' Court yesterday, before Mr. E. 0. Cutten, S.M., to a charge that he, being a bookmaker, carried on betting on Ellerslic racecourse. Chief-Detective McMahon said that ! accused was seen on the racecourse with ' a book in his possession, containing wagers amounting in all to about £14, some of them being for £2 and £3. Ho did not suggest that accused was betting in an ' extensive way, and he asked for the infliction of the minimum penalty. The magistrate imposed a fine of £20. DESERTER SENT TO GAOL. A seaman named Waldemar Berglund was charged with deserting from the ■ steamers Paparoa and Ruapehu. It was i stated that after deserting from the first ship accused joined the second under an l assumed name. He deserted from the ! second ship on being refused an advance I by the captain. Since then he had been I about the wharves. Accused was convicted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

CHILDREN'S MAINTENANCE. Alexander James Macdonald, painter, of Devonport, for failing to comply with ! an order to pay 5s a week each in respect of his two children, was sentenced to a; month's imprisonment, the order to be ' suspended so long as payments were made. An application by "defendant to have the order reduced and the arrears amounting to £42 6s cancelled was ad- '■ journed sine die. CASES ADJOURNED. The three men—Hugh Daniel Campbell Wilson, aged 27, William Fraser, aged 26, and John Morris, aged 56—were again remanded, this time until Monday, on a charge of assaulting James Beavan on December 27, so as to cause him actual , bodily harm. i Harry Edgar White, aged 30, who was ' charged with leaving Manly New South I Wales, on October 9 without providing his wife with proper maintenance, was ! remanded for one week. Roy Hastings, aged 23. was remanded for a weeF on a charge of stealing on December 31 a silver watch value £3 10s the property of William Victor Hill Bail was granted in two sureties of £75 each, or one of £150. j MISCELLANEOUS. | A well-dressed first offender, aged 62 was fined 5s for drunkenness in Princes I Street. Another first offender, a-'ed 47 I who was found drunk in Victoria" Road' '< Devonport, was remanded until Monday I for medical treatment. A statutory first' offender for drunkenness in Albert "Street was fined ss. William James Mahonev, aged 47 for committing an indecent act in Customs Street, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. ' John Mullan aged 30, pleaded not guilty to being drunk in the public bar of the WaUemata Hotel on January 6, and to a second charge of refusing to quit the hotel when l , requested to leave. Accused said that he was not drunk, and he was on ThY™? .°y\ of . the hot el when arrested The magistrate imposed a fine of £1 and costs on the second charge, and con count a dlschared accused on the first WalLr^iff v by Flora McDonald 1? V™ W• * Sl ! 6 be sent to Pakatoa for 12 months' treatment was cranted. warned S ie *, A -™ (e Amelia ™, ing S in WeSeyslrelr ß "*