POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17189, 17 June 1919, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFT AT ONEHUNGA,

YOUNG MAORI CONVICTED,

The it of a suit cf clothes, an overcoat, c, bicycle lamp, a fancy flower-pot, "fieldglasses, and a pair of spectacles' from a house at Onohtuiga on May 16 last '■'A3 admitted by a Maori youth named George Hui 'jeforo Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. _ Chief-Detective McMahcm paid that accused had been living with ' ifca complainiJit at Onehunga, and after being sent way from the house returned in the ainant's absence, entered the dwelling end stole the articles enumerate. Latei he admitted the 'V< m. returned the gcods. with tho excepiuft A the ectsele/. and .he flower pot. His record sho'v'd " that in Mnvih iasfc he bad be«n placed on probation for forging and utterLag On the application of the police the accused was convicted and ordered to pay 32s 6d costs and the value of ihew ; ?*ng poodn, and to come up for sentence ft called upon within two years. _ Cliorpea of drunkenness, haying, used obscene, language, and having damaged a constable's tunic to the extent el ss. wereadmitted by James Mcldrura, i natito of South Africa. He denied ft charge of having resisted arrest. It was stated-that the offender, while drunk, caused a " scene!' in Syruonds Street on.-'Saturday night and vigorously resisted ant)' '«$ constable. .Accused was convicted -2nd fined a total of £2 on the four chwm, Desertion from the steamer City of Dunkirk was admitted by a Cuban foamar, Manuel Mancibo Casamayov; On _ the application of the Union SUara Sfei? Comi pauy the magistrate sentenced accused to [seven days' imprisonment, with the :onidition that he rejoined his vessel at--Wel-lington and pay his own expeneea tb:ther. For having committed an indeceri act in Elliott Street, James Pollock was fhed £2.

Robert Russell Frazsr, who ; adapted charccß of drunkenness and breach of his prohibition order, was fined 10s, on each*. Four first offenders for drunkenness forfeited 10-? bail, Vino was fined TOs' and another s^.