POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18459, 24 July 1923, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

REFUSAL TO LEAVE TRAM CAR. TWO YOUNG MEN FINED. Two young men, Charles Gunn and Patrick Gunn, were each fined £2 and costs 10s by Mr. J. W. Poynton. S.M., at the Police Court yesterday, for obstructing the conductor and motorman of a tramcar on Saturday. The men got in at the Victoria Street stop at 12.30 p.m., it was stated by defendant's counsel, and rode as far as Myers' Park, and felt aggrieved when requested to leave, the ' car being overcrowded. The motorman attempted to put Patrick Gunn off the car, when his brother Charles interfered.. The magistrate said passengers must obey when requested to leave a car. VALUELESS CHEQUE PASSED. Percy Clarebrough Butler, on a charge of obtaining goods by means of a valueless cheque, was admitted to probation for three years, the Rev. Jasper Calder, Anglican City Missioner, requesting that clemency be extended. Tho magistrate said that accused had only recently served a sentence for falsa pretences. FINED FOR ASSAULT. Frederick Van Lume was fined £10 in default two months' imprisonment for an assault on a fellow boarder in Victoria Street. West, £2 of the fine to go to the man assaulted, Walter Henry Smith. For striking another man in an hotel, Edward Sutherland was fined £2 and costs £3, £1 of which is to be paid to the party assaulted. PROBATION FOR THEFT. For the theft of a camera and photographs, Eric Keith McKenzie was admitted to probation for two' years and prohibited. • ' MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES. Robert Bruce Thompson, for an indecent act, was fined £3, in default 7 days' imprisonment. For a breach of her prohibition order, Elsie Neville was sentenced to 7 days' imprisonment. , A Belgian nameci Caesar Charles Watrus was remanded to Cambridge on a charge of indecent assault." Dorothy Pauline White was remanded till next Monday on several charges of theft. Walter Henry Smith, a second offender for drunkenness, was fined £2. John Denehy, for a third offence, was sentenced to three days' imprisonment. George William McDonald was remanded till Thursday on several theft charges.