POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17256, 4 September 1919, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

DAMAGE TO PROPERTY,

FEDERAL STREET DISTURBANCE.

A plea of not guilty to breaking seven panes of glass valued at 255, at a dwelling occupied by William Williams, was entered by Henry Benjamin Jarvis (Mr. Moody), at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M. The evidence showed that on July 19 accused went to a boardinghouse in Federal Street occupied by Williams, and- owing to advances to Annie Cooper was put out by Williams. He thereupon broke seven! articles in the house and smashed seven panes of Accused maintained that'he had given the woman money and would not go away until it was returned. One witness admitted that the woman was drunk, but he denied that she did any of the damage. Annie Cooper said she met the accused at a hotel, and he followed her home. She denied getting any monev from Jarvis Accused was fined £3 and 25s costs.

RESTAURANT-KEEPER ASS,* CLTED. Frank Goldsmith pleaded not guilty to having .assaulted Edmund Schelbick" a Ureek restaurant-keeper, bv throwing a bottle at him. Ho pleaded guilty to damaging crockery valued at 10s. and to using obscene language. Accused said that he was chasing Schelbick in the street when a bottle fell from his pocket. The evidence showed that Goldsmith went into the kitchen of Scheibick's restaurant and when ordered out used bad im junge and broke crockery to the value of 10* He then chased the proprietor, who had gone to the door to call a, pc-lireman, down the street, throwing bottles at him. Schelbick, when asked if h e t-aw accused throwing bottles at him. said, " I never turn back, I run for mv life." The Senior Sergeant: "But did any of them hit you? ( Comp.amant: " No; I run too fast. Accused was fined £1 for assault ordered to pay 10s and 12s costs on the second charge, and fined £5 for the obscene language.

DRUNKEN NESS. William Fitzgerald, aged 68, who pleaded guilty to drunkenness for the second time within six months, and to committing an indecent act, was fined £5 on the first charge and ordered to com up for sentence if called upon within three months on the second. A young woman. Mavis Molloy (Mr. Sullivan) pleaded gutty to six breaches of her prohibition order. She was convicted and fined £1 on each of the six charges, and ordered to pay £2 6s cost*, being given one month in which to pay George Miller, aged 49, for'a fourth offence of drunkenness within sis months was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. William Williams, alias laffy Williams, who did net appear, and William Hammond, for breaches of their prohibition orders, were each fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonmei;*. YOUTHS AND A PEA-RIFLE. A youth named Joseph Lee pleaded gm.ty to procuring a pea-rifle from William Putt, another boy, ■without having secured a permit, and Putt admitted supplying Lee with the rifle without a permit. They were convicted, and each ordered to pay lis costs. BREACHES OF THE BY-LAWS. For driving vehicles not provided with sufficient lights Guthrie Caldwell was fined 10s and lis costs; Ernest Jackson, Walter G. Rae, Louisa Mcintosh, and John C. Kay, 10s and 9s costs each ; John Belchor, Peter Burns, Jaaie3 Johnston, William Hayman, Alfred Grove and Alfred Blake, 5s and 9s costs; Eric Wheeler, Leslie Buchanan, and hssie Hollywood, convicted and ordered to pay 9s costs each. William Charles Walker and Gerald White, for leaving their cars unattended for more than an hour, and having insufficient, lights, were each fined 10s and 9s costs. George Gregory, for riding a bicycle without a light,- was fined 10s and 9s costs, and for riding on a footpath was ordered to pay 7s costs. Charles Wrathall, William Harvey, and Alfred Weaver, for driving vehicles at night so laden that no light was visible from the rear, were each ordered to pay Ss costs. For allowing catt'e to -wander on nublic highways, Edward Drirnm and Alfred Blake were fined 10s and 9s costs; and Eliza Preston, Arthur R. Saunders, and James Bingham were each fined 5s and 9s costs. For allowing chimneys at their premises to be afire, Melville Holmes was fined 5s and 17s costs, and Harriet Dingle 5s and 9s costs.