POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16619, 16 August 1917, Page 6

POLICE COURT NEWS.

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Charged with supplying liquor }. to a I person apparently under the age of 21 i years, Mark Bush, {;barman of; the Star I Hotel, Newton, and B. P.-. Edwards, licensee of the hotel, appeared before s Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday. ,%. ~ _ _ .; " ,"" _. - W. T. Yeoman, a soldier, said he visited the hotel in plain clothes on the day in question and was : supplied -: with ;a; " shandy " by Bush- v" ; This was ; bis first experience of liquor, ; and r as he -- did hot like it he did hot finish the drink, /but left the hotel. . The mother of witness said he was 17 years of age. £;.'. Bush denied serving the drink, and suggested thatlthe youth had picked up some- ■ one else's liquor. V ; His Worship said there was no doubt j the liquor was supplied, and imposed a fine -ofi £2 % and; costs,,; £2 '• 14:*. - As - there i was- no suggestion of carelessness on the ■ part of i the licensee,; he was convicted and [ordered to pay costs, 73 v . 1 ' •■; ''■■'■■"■■ ' , ■"■, '■■' ';■■■; : •.-'■

" ; THEFTS' BY A MAORI. ' A young Maoris Tommy Clark, (Mr. A* E. Skelton), pleaded '-;■ guilty to a number of thefts of coats " and other ;. articles.; The chief detective said that the accused, . who had been driving a motor-car in Auckland, had; obtained possession of a returned - soldier's badge. -Tie then - posed as a returned soldier and was given all the privileges of the Soldiers Club. He stole one coat from the club and pawned it j he took a rug from a garage, and had obtained possession of a number of other articles in the same way. Counsel said the young man had been in camp and had been released from duty. Instead of returning to : the country, as he should have done, he hung about town, and, consequently, got into trouble. He was prepared to re-enlist. The , magistrate said it appeared to be a case of getting the advantages of education and not realising the responsibilities. Accused would be convicted and ordered to r -come up for sentence when called upon, a condition being that ho re-enlisted and made -restitution of £9 9s 6d. ' * = - ... \ MISCELLANEOUS. For leaving his motor-car unattended in Karangahape Road for more than 15 minutes Harold C. Alexander was fined 5s and 7s costs. Leonard F. Sargent was ; ordered to pay 7s costs, and Arthur R. Millar was similarly dealt with for "cutting the corner" when . driving a gig. James R.'Robertson was fined 10s and 7s costs for not having his motor-car ; properly lighted. ' ,^.^v : '" For breaking the terms of ? their prohibi- ; tion orders .George Jackson was fined 10s -I and 7s costs; ; Florain Geros, £3; Frederick ' Watterstrahd,;£s; Michael" J. Tobin, ; £2;''-. and Juan Codes, £2. The last-named was ;- also' fined £1 for using obscene'language.:On a charge of ; seriously assaulting : a male :at Devonport, j Alfred "H. Clist, aged ■19 : : years, was ; remanded for a week. For illtreating a horse; by working -it while it.. ; ; nad;: a sore j neck ;John; Leith ? was ordered to ; pay. 23a costs.