POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18041, 16 March 1922, Page 3

POLICE COURT NEWS.

MONEY OBTAINED BY FRAUD.

ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT One month's imprisonment wan imposed on Jnmes Francis Morrison by Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Po'ice Court yesterday, on a charge of having obtained £4 2s 6d by false pretences. In a statement produced by Detective McHugh, accused said he had obtained the money irom H. R. Burrett by falsely representing that £6 lis wan required to secure a man's release from priison. BREACH OF PROBATION. Charles Henry Glover (Mr. Dickson) denied having been disorderly while drunk in Tennyson Street, ami having failed to comply with the terms of his release on probation. Evidence was given that accused and several other men were on a vacant section on the night of March 7, drinking and making a noises They were advised by a constable in plain clothes to go home, < but refusedEventually, after acting in a disorderly manner in the street, accused Was arrested. Ho was under the influence of drink. After hearin? the Mr. Dickson said he would not contradict it. Accused was fined HI on the first charge. In connection with the second charge, an unfavourable report was given by the probation officer. Accused ws committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.'

DRUNK IN RAILWAY CARRIAGE. A labourer, William John Qninn, was charged with having travelled on the train from Helejsville without paying his fare and with having been drank in a railway carriage. In regard to the first charge he said he and another man had started out together. They had both paid their fare, but received only one ticket. Accused had got oil the train for refreshments and missed it, his companion going on with the ii.ket. Accused had followed in another train. Constable Douglas said he had ascertained that a ticket book handed in at the Auckland station showed that one ticket" had been issued for two fariss. The magistrate dismissed the charge nnder section 92 of the Justices of the Peace Act. On the other charge accused was fined £1 and 10s costs, in default three days' imprisonment. BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. The by-law cases were mainly in respect of minor breaches, and the majority were not defended. A fine of fil and costs was imposed on William Platts for having disobeyed'the directions of the constable on traffic duty at an intersection. A similar pena'ty was imposed on W. A. Reyno'dsi, C. Sinel and A. Legg, for having ridden bicycles on the footpath. For having lightud fires in the open air without permission Joseph Gee and Raphael Riffkin were each fined 10s and coßts.

CHARGE OF FORGERY. On a charge of having forged and uttered a cheque for £10 at Wanganui, Alfred Hinton was remanded to appear at Wanganui nest Tuesday.