POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16483, 8 March 1917, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ILL-TREATING A HORSE. A DRIVER FINED. ■ x A number of minor cases were dealt with A NUMiiTO:O.f minor,cases were dealt with i by! Mr. E. C. : Cutten, S.M., in . the : Police Court yesterday morning. ...-.-;. : A driver, John Goil, was charged"with cruelly eating a ; horse on February 10 by working it when suffering from severe sores. Constable Ryan deposed to I having;';!- instructed '.'.< the : defendant to'■'• re--I , move the horse, which, witness , said, was ! in.a- frightful condition, '; from a milk-cart. f The defendant said that when he put the 1 horse in < the cart on the morning in : ques- , • tion it was all right, but that it had on I the side a boil i which "probably : had burst. A fine of v£2 and costs - was imposed. ' BREACHES OF DEFENCE ACT. . Two youths," William James Sweet and Henry";Sweet,-were proceeded ;against for i ;having failed to register for personal service,-, as required by the Defence Act... It was explained by an ,': officer that _ the youths, who had been in the Dominion about four years,' had been repeatedly warned by j their employers ;; arid others I that they .i were liable I for service.; 1 - The defendants, {who pleaded ignorance of the law, 4 , were each fined £5 and costs.. I ' John Henry Totman, aged 18, was fined ! £2,";. with; costs, for failing to : render ser- •'. vice under the ■ Compulsory Military Training Act, while on a'- similar charge, Clyde Powley,. aged s 16, was ! fined 15s, with costs. -I,V>- />.'[ * -.-■■..■-.-;..*:'« '- :■■" BREACHES OF .BY-LAWS.- ■ .; A motorist, Bertha Seabrook, was charged with failing": to comply '< with \ the . direction of: this constable 1 : stationed at the foot of Wellesley Street 1 ' to direct ; traffic. ' For the defendant, Mr. Aldis said the • policeman had ; held up his hand for the defendant to i stop, but almost ■■' immediately afterwards, he glanced behind 1 him, and, in doing so, had moved his hand, thereby leading the defendant into the belief that she could ' drive on. 1 - A fine of 10s, with costs, was imposed. For cycling on the footpath Ernest Ojcenham was . fined '5s and'-coati'?-* 1 . ; = ' William jFletcher was convicted and ordered - to. pay costs , on a charge of having allowed a hoarding : to, be insufficiently lighted in Queen Street ' after .sunset. ,; ..■ .....,/•' ■ ■■>■~,.. ' ; A;- young man, Pyhson Wilmott Long- | dill, : : pleaded guilty to charges of having on February 18 .remained '. on Cheltenham Beach'; : while insufficiently garbed, for longer time than was 'necessary.. for him to proceed to his dressing-room, and also with being clothed in other than a Canadian bathing costume, as required by the DevonpoH' Borough ' by-laws. He was convicted and fined 10s and costs on the i first charge, and convicted and discharged j on tho-second. . Hugh Perrett, a youth, denied having remained on Cheltenham 'Beach longer 1 than '~ was necessary while insufficiently garbed. Constable Clist said he saw defendant lying on the beach in his costume. When, he saw witness coming, defendant jumped up and put on an, overcoat., Defendant and three witnesses pave evidence to the effect that Perrett had his coat on when - the constable appeared on , the scene. ' Mr. Cutten 'said he preferred to believe the constable's ' story. There was no su<"»estion of indecency. The prosecu- j tion had evidently been brought as a 1 warning that .the by-laws must be ob- 1 served. A fine of 10s would be imposed. , V ;;-; DRUNKENNESS., '• Two middle-aged ; men, » Charles * Joseph Glover and f John Mcrnsey charged with j drunkenness , and with 'committing a nui- j sance in a public place, were each con- ! victed and discharged on the first charge, \ and fined £1, or in default three days' im. ! prisonment, -on the second. ..; ;; Walter Richard Leafy . was ■ convicted arid discharged ; for being drunk, a fourth offence,; and was fined £1, or in default three days' imprisonment, for a breach of his prohibition order. ? One first offender was convicted: and discharged, one was fined 2s 6d,; four were ■ fined 5s each, and two were ordered to;- forfeit ; the amount of their bailment,. 10s in' each .case, A second,,offender,,; John . Ernest : Bull,>• was fined. 103, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. , .',