POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

SEVERAL MINOR CASES. VAGRANT SENT TO GAOL. A charge of vagrancy was denied by Cyrus Charles Htitton, aged 25, who appeared on remand before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Police Couirt yesterday. Accused, who had several previous conviction!! against him for theft, was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour. When the case against Norman Stewart " T -"-d. who had been remanded for sentence on four charges of theft, was called, accused did not appear, and ChiefDetective Mcllveney said that Ward had U*n sentenced at the Supreme Court to a term of reformative detention on other charges. Accused was accordingly convicted and discharged. William Jackyon, aged 83, who had been found Bleeping in St. Paul's Church on Monday niefht, was charged with vagrancy. As he had his oJd-aije pension t.o draw the next day he. was discharged. A youth, Edward O'Brien, appeared m connection with a charge of having failed to perform certain military duties On parade in May. Defendant had been ordered to come up for sentence yesterday. It was stated that though his conduct had improved to some extent there was still much room for improvement. In the circumstances O'Brien was ordered to come up for sentence in 12 months.