POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17111, 17 March 1919, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

YOUNG WOMAN'S LAPSE. LENIENCY EXTENDED. An admission that she stole a blouse and 33s in cash was made by Hilda Dyer, need 22, when charged with the offence before Mr 0. B. Wilson, S.M., at the Police Court on Saturday. DetectiveSergeant Hammond stated that the reused visited a hotel at which two of her friends were employed a* »«*»"J and that she appropriated the blouse & nd the money from their bedroom. She was the daughter of respectable people, end the present was her first offence. The magistrate admitted the accused to I probation for 12 months.

AN INTERRUPTED JOURNEY. A charge of causing actual bodily harm to Albert 0. Hyde was preferred against Albert D. Prosser. Senior-Sergeant AleNamara said that the accused was arrested on board the Niagara on Friday night when about to proceed to Sydney. He had a bank draft for ween £200 and £300 on him. Prosser had obtained the permit to leave New Zealand prior of the late of the" alleged offence, the charge for which arose out of the knocking down of a senior cadet by a motor-cycle saidjlo have been ridden by the accused The yo*h sustained a broken leg, and it was unlikely that he would be in a condition to give evidence for about six weeks. The case was adjourned until Friday, bail being allowed the accused in a cash bond of £200. _______ FINED FOR ASSAULT. That he assaulted Henry Summers, and that he used threatening behaviour was admitted by Michael Fisher. It was stated that the accused had gone up to Summers, who was a Boldier attached to the New Zealand Medical Corps, called mm a "shirker," and struck him. Summers 'ell and broke his wristlet watch. Fisher was half mad with drink at the time, and when arrested was flourishing an open pocket-knife. ~,,,. ( r.,„ A fine of £5, or m default one month s imprisonment, was imposed. 20s of the fine to go to Summers for the repair of his watch. AN ALIEN IMPRISONED. For failing to report for national service when ordered to do so, an enemy ahen, Steve Gjugum. was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The accused and his brother, who on Friday was similarly penalised for a like offence, had declared that he was not going to work until after he had had a good time. For permitting an alien to work on the fleamer Awaiou without a license, John R. Anderson was convicted and ordered to pay 9s costs.

CASES AGAINST JUVENILES. Four girls and a boy, whose ages ranged <rom one to ten years, were charged before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., in the Juvenile Court with being children having no means of subsistence. It was stated that the father of the children had recently been admitted to the hospital, with the result that his wife and family had had to exist on the returns from the sale of a Jew onions. Two years ago the father houebt five acres of land in the suburbs at £180 per acre, but he had paid nothing on the purchase, and the land had now been surrendered. A relative had agreed to take charge of the two youngest children. The charges against these two were accordingly withdrawn, and the other three were committed to the Auckland Industrial School. A twelve-year-old boy admitted that, on Wednesday last, he stole a watch and I chain and a money-bos containing nearly ' £12, from a house in Eden Terrace. The jewellery and all but about 10s of the | j uoney was recovered. It was stated that I the delinquent, who had previously been I ; before the Court, required strict control, ; which he did not get at home. The case ' was adjourned for a week to enable the I luvenile probation officer to endeavour to i get a suitable foster-home. I That he stole 50s from a house in Kings- j land and several trinkets "from another house was not denied by a fourteen-year- j old boy. It was stated that the lad had ; run away from home because he had been • taken to task by his father for a misde- ' meanour. When ho became hungry he committed the thefts to get food. The lad ' was admonished by the magistrate, who j adjourned the case for 12 months. |