POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17132, 10 April 1919, Page 4

POLICE COURT NEWS.

FALSE PRICES ADMITTED, SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT; Earing obtained goods to the value of £8 la 7d by false pretences, was admitted by Claude Randolph Marmont, who is at present undergoing sentence for theft, before Messrs. J. Walton and C. A. Whitney, J.P.'s, in the Police Court yesterday. Senior-Sergeant McNamara stated that on February 2, Maimont made representations to Wiseman and Sons that he w.is a horse-breaker, and obtained goods worth £2 8s 6d. On February 18, he obtained draining tools worth £2 17s from John Dunn and Company, by falso declaration?, and on tho following day, by stating that he had a quantity of stock on the roads, obtained goods worth £2 16s Id from E. Frost, Parnell. A sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed. VALUELESS CHEQUE ISSUED. A charge of having obtained £3 17s 6d. from James Walker by false pretences, namely, a valueless cheque, was preferred against Jaiaes Wylie Gray (Mr. It. E, Matthews). Detective' Sergeant Hammond said that on March 5, accused paid Walker, a plumber, an amount due to him with a cheque that was subsequently dishonoured. It was considered that accused, who had recently issued a numb;>r of valueless cheques, had got into debt through living I above his income. Counsel denied any criminal intent, and submitted that accused was careless in his business methods. Accused,was admitted to probation for two years. THEFT OF CIGARETTE?. John Graham, aged 20, admitted the thoft on Monday evening of 12 packets of cigarettes and one of tobacco, of a total value of 10s, the property of Georpe Ccssey- The senior-sergeant stated that whiie Cossey was out of the shop accused broke the chain on the door, entered, and stole the tobacco. His downfall was attributed to over-frequent attendance at billiard saloons. Accused was admitted to probation for 12 months, and ordered not to visit billiard saloons during a similar period. OLD MAN AnS-iULTET. Thomas Kielty (Mr. R. Singe? pleaded not gsnlty to a "charge of having ssaulted a ma ; unknown, on February 24 last. The, prosecution alleged that accused, who v • driving a cart in Cook Street, alir'-f struck an old man, and dragged him an adjo • : ng. alleyway. May Duncan, * witness •-' the affray, said that as accused drove round a corner into Cook Street, the old man, under the influence of liquo",, crossed in front of the venule. The de* fendant then tried to run over him, and subsequently alighted and treated him brutally. Accused contended that he removed the old man to the pavement without violence, but struck another man who interfered. A fine of £3, with 12s costs, was imposed. ASSAULT IN HOTEL. Percival John Hill admitted before Mr. T. E. Wilson, S.M., having assaulted oseph Molloy on Tuesday, and having efused to leave the British Hotel when requested by Thomas Lawry, an employee. fho prosecution alleged that accused enered the hotel a* 6.15 pm., and, after icing forcibly removed, struck Molloy, who as barring "the doorway. Joseph Molloy, -he licensee, stated that it was the most lisgraceful conduct he had witnessed for nany years. ■ Accused was fined "£Z on each charge, with 6s costs, . A SERIOUS CHARGE. ' John McDonald (au. ... Moody] pleaded not guilty :„o a charge of having inoecontly assaulted a male in Albert Street on Monday evening. Accused, who resmed Ins defence, was committed to the Supreme Court for *.rial. Bail was allowed in one surety of £100. BY-LAWS TRANSGRESSED. For having driven an insufficiently lighted vehicle at Mount Roskill on February 135, George Barker was fined 10s, with 96 costs. Charles Kelly, for having left a vehicle unattended in Queen Street, for more than 15 minutes, and On Lee, for having failed ta chain his wheel, were each fined 10s and 9s costs. Robert V. ' Vickermau and Elsie Carbines, for having driven a motor-cycle at more thin nix miles an hour at tin intersection of Ponscuby and Jervois Roads, Edwin Clark, . Birkenhead, for having allowed his horse to wander, and John C. T. Kidd, for having lefJi his vehicle facing the wrong way in Queen Street, were each fined ss, with 3s costs. A fine of £1 'with 9s costs was imposed on Richard Henry for having " cut" the corner of Queen and Shortland Streets. —— , MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES. Susan Brunton admitted drunkenness, but denied vagrancy. The evidence showed that accused had been seen frequently in the company of men, and on the night of her arrest was drinking with • a man in an alley way. Accused, who had previously served sentences, was imprisoned for'three monlba on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. Mary Ann Sophia Gilam, for' driving a horse and cart iii Manukau Road at midnight without lights while drunk, was fined £1. Julia Barrett, a second offender for drunkenness, was fined 10?. Jharles W. Speechley, for a breach of his prohibition order, was fined 40s, in default seven days* imprisonment. Costs iraounted to lis. Two first offenders were dealt with.