POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17329, 28 November 1919, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ASSAULT ON A NURSE. > .. I » FOURTEEN DAYS' IMPRISONMENT. i Charges of having assaulted Nurse I Wheeler at a private hospital, and with r having been drunk while prohibited, were - preferred against Charles Arthur Sullivan 1 at the Police Court yesterday before Mr. B , F. K. Hunt, S.M. ' 0 e i Sub-Inspector Wohlmann said that the 3 accused had gone to the back door of the >f hospital on the previous day, and ine sisted upon being admitted. Nurse I - Wheeler advised him to go to the public d hospital, and conducted him to the gate, where the accused struck the nurse on the J face. A telephone message brought a con--1 stable, and th 6 accused was found in the a grounds of the public hospital. 3 The accused said he did not remember 3 anything about the episode. He was " under the influence of liquor. ' j Sullivan was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for assault. He was fined £2 r t for the breach of his prohibition order 1 ; and 10s for drunkenness. I j CUSHIONS WRONGFULLY TAKEN. > | Ruby Marion Herbert (Mr. A. Moody) ' | pleaded not guilty to charges of the theft | of two cushions from a railway carriage. , Counsel said the plea was a formal one, as his client admitted the facts. Sergeant-Detective Hammond said that ! ! the accused was an attendant in the ' i woman's compartment on the Main Trunk . , train. The cushions had been left in the | train by passengers, and the accused had 1 taken them home instead of handing them to the railway authorities.. Counsel asked that the accused should not have a conviction recorded against her, as the act was rather careless than criminal. The magistrate agreed with counsel that in the circumstances the accused should not be branded as a thief, and merely ordered her to pay th Q costs of the proceedings. [ i ALLEGED BIGAMY. Henry Curry (Mr. Dickson) appeared on i a charge of having committed bigamy at Christchurch on March 17, 1917. On the - apDlication of Chief-Detective McMahon the accused was remanded for a week, bail - being allowed in the accused's own 'bond of £100 and two sureties of £60 each. i TRAFFIC BY-LAWS BROKEN. ' , For driving on th e wrong side of Ansae { Avenue, William Laurence, Albert Webber, Ernest Boucher, and James Hayden ; were each fined 5s and costs 7s, and i Richard Austin and Sydney Adland were i ord ered to pay costs. Bruce Cunningham was fined 20s and costs for using an unlicensed vehicle, and Alfred H. Bryant , for a similar breach, was fined Wand t 2*J?\, Two lads ' Cecil Brown an <* Bert McCallum.were each fined 5s and costs 7 s tor cycling on the footpath. c DRUNKENNESS. 3 a One , first offender for drunkenness was fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment, and j another forfeited bail.