POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17296, 21 October 1919, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ATTEMPTED THEFT.

TWO GREASERS FIXED.

A neat capture* of two ship's greasers, about to steal some of the store* from tbo hold of the Ajana, carried out by one of the engineers a few nights ago. led t<> the appearance of Alexander Sinclair and Ale Mookred before Mr. J. K. Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. Each pleaded guilty to charges of attempted theft of ship's stores worth 10s.

Chief-Detective McMahon stated that the engineer, becoming suspicious, hid himself in the hold and surprised the two men as they came down the ladder. Later they admitted to Detective f'ummings that they had gone down to get stores.

Each man was fined £2 and costs.

AN UNDESIRABLE CHARACTER, *' It is with the object of cleaning up the city that we have brought this woman here," said Sub Aspect or Wohlmann in reference to Susan Brunton. who was charged with having contorted with reputed thieves and prostitutes. It v.a3 stated that the accused was one of a number of women of loose character, who had recently passed through the Court?, Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. OFFENCE DUE TO DRINK. A drunken man's action in taking a stranger's portmanteau, led to hi? being charged with theft. Mr. Hall Skelton said that the accused, Esmond William McCorkindale, met the complainant, who asked him to find him a drink. Accused took him to his own home, and when going out in search of liquor, took complainant's bag with him. The complainant followed, and after some trouble, regained his property. Both men were very drunk at the time. The accused was prohibited and ordered to pay £3 18s costs. RAG MERCHANT FINED £2. The theft of a copper boiler, valued at £2, from a residence at Ooehunga, \\ as denied by Kenneth Edward McQueid (Mr. Sullivan). The police alleged that tho accused, who was ii) the rag and bottle business, had stolen the copper and beaten it to give an appearance of Tindefence was that the accused had removed the copper under the apprehension that it wa« his own property. Accused was found guilty and ordered to pay £2, the value of the copper, and costs amounting to £1 6s 3d. A case against William Maurice ("rimmine, who was charged with the thtft of 2s worth of rags from the same p!a<.-:\ was adjourned for three months. MISCELLANEOUS <JFFKNCKS. Willie Chan, who admitted thai he sold a revolver without a permit, .'••.-> nm-d £1. with 9s costs. A vouth named Frederick Artnur No,son (Mr. Singer), was lined 45s for usM: - obscene language while drunk m the .railway entrance on Saturday evening. _ Fergus Raphael Brennan was lined it* for drunkenness, and a similar sum (ci a breach of his prohibition order. Daniel Fitzpatrick was similarly dealt with.