POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18017, 16 February 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

POSSESSION OF REVOLVER.

INCIDENT AT SWANSON.

The man, Frederick Taylor (Mr. Osburno Lilly), who had been convicted of having been found in possession of a fivechambered revolver and ammunition at Swanson on October 1, 1921, without law. ful excuse, came up for sentence before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. Sentence had been deferred pending Supreme Court proceedings. Tho case was heard on Tuesday, accused being found not guilty. Counsel said that while the magistrate had convicted accused of being in possession of the revolver tho jury had acquitted him of stealing it. In pleading for loniency counsel said accused had been under restraint sinco October.

In view of tho fact that accused had beon in custody for five months ho was discharged, but the magistrate warned him to leave rovolvors alone, The penalty for being found in unlawful possession was a fine of £50 or throe months' imprisonment. An order was made for the ammunition to bo forfeited and the revolver returned to the owner.

FAILURE TO DRILL. Sovcral young men were prosecuted as tho result of their failure to attend drill. A. J. Dagnall was fined £5, with costs 14s, in default 28 days' detention. S. Mitchell was fined £3, in default 21 days' detention, and W. J. Sharp £1.

MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES. Two young vagrants, Gladwin Day, aged 27, and Roy 1 rost, aged 20, who had boen remanded for a week for sentence, ponding inquiries, wero convicted and discharged. " Celebrating his discharge from the island," said Sergeant Rowell when Edmund Stanloy Brown was charged with having used obscene language in Queen Street while drunk. The sergeant explained that accused had just completed 12 months at Roto Roa. The magistrate imposed a fine of £5, in default l 4 days' imprisonment, remarking that accused had previously been convicted of using obsceno language.

BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. The list of by-law cases was comparatively light, the majority of charges boing in respect of minor breaches. For having driven over tho Grafton Bridge at a greater speed than ten miles an hour Dr. W. N, Abbott was fined £2 and costs, there being two charges against him, while Dudley Hulme, J. H. Simpson, and John C. Whitney wcro each fined £1 and costs, Len Adams and H. S. Thomas wore each fined £1 and costs lis for having driven in Takapuna at more than 20 miles an hour, as provided by tho by-laws. For having ridden a motor-cyclo in Hobson Street at a high speed and making a loud noise M. Robinson was fined £2 and costs, lie bad beon testing his machine. W. H. \ mall, who had failed to stop his motor-car when directed to do so by a constable on traffic duty and had driven without a certificate of competency, was fined £1, with costs £1 Is.