POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

HIT ON HEAD WITH STICK. ASSAILANT SENT TO GAOL. — A brief list of cases was heard before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., and - Messrs, P. Floyd and D. C. Frftfier,: J.P.'s, at the Police Court yesterday;- - ; ' "You had no right to use the stick.'. You might have killed ; the ■ man,". said. Mr. Poynton in sentencing- Albert Neary, aged . 58, to seven days' imprisonment' for assaulting Thomas Kennedy 'by striking him on the head * with a walking-stick. Mr. Ponton "added that if accused -wanted; help he could have appealed to , the police, but he ; could not take the law into ■ his own, hands. •. - ■ . Accused said that Kennedy ; made a. suggestive remark to his wife when he had been' refused a request for 2s. '* ' Neary was further charged with being £28 lis Ed in • arrears , with an order for the maintenance of his • daughter at , the Education Department's: Home. ; He ' was ordered to pay 5s a month from June 28. OFFENCES IN THE - STREET. } Alfred Ogier, aged 50, for uuing obscene language to a policeman in Welleslsy Street, was sentenced to seven days' im-i prisonment. Martin McDonough, aged 47, j and ' Alexander Duff, aged 23, were charged with ( threatening behaviour in Little ; Queen ! Street. McDonough had - fotir previous convictions, •> and -was held ;to be the aggressor by the .policeman ■who effected the arrest. Ho was fined £2 2;., in default seven days' imprisonment. ' Duff was .fined • £1, in default three days" imprisonment. . ..BREACHES OF BY-LAWS. : : 1 For failing ito notify the change of , ownership of a motor-cycle, V. E. Hickey was fined 10s and 7s costs. ; For fplying their motor-cars for. hire without - having taxi-drivers' licenses; D./ Shannon was fined 20s and 7s costs, arid W. Davidson 40s and 7s costs. .-0; 'v C. V. Parsons was fined 20b arid 15s costs arid ordered to pay 20s . witness' expenses for riot having a special license res'. quired by -. taxi-drivers plying for : hire at Auckland railway station taxi-itahd. , . : F. T. Clark, for failing to o!>oy a constable's signal and for neglecting to notify change of : ownership of , a motor-car, was , fine.d 20s' and lis costs and 10s and lis i costs respectively. - . • J [« i ' i % , v •./ - j.'-1 i DROVE IN FRONT OF -TRAIN.* .. J. A. Watson: was fined 20s and costs, 13a, and ordered to pay 20s witness' fea3 for crossing in front of "an -approaching train at av level-crossing. The engine-; driver stated that he had been forced to bring his train practically to a standstill to avoid a collision with'a* heavily-laden motor-lorry that Watson was driving. |