POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18996, 18 April 1925, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

WATCH AND CHAIN STOLEN. TAKEN FROM FRIEND'S HOUSE. FINE IMPOSED BY COURT. A young man, whoso name was ordered to bo suppressed, was charged in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., with theft of a gold watch and chain and a book, totalling £2O 2a in value. Detective Barling deposed that accused said ho visited a friend's house and, becoming intoxicated, must have taken the articles from a table. When he arrived homo he found the articles in his coat pocket. He intended to return them, but ho did not want to face his friend Chief-Detective Cummings: He held them nine days. Witness: Yes. Mr. Singer said accused was in a good position and had no cause to steal- Ihe act was committed when ho was intoxicated, and probably the fear of some kind of reprimand prevented him from returning the articles. Accused was fined £5. TWO WOMEN SENT TO GAOL. Two ■women were imprisoned for drunkenness, Florence Elsio Neville, aged 44, receiving a term of two months for her fifth appearance within six months, and Mary Graham, aged 40, one month, for her fourth appearance. MISCHIEF AND DRUNKENNESS. For wilfully damaging Government property in a cell at the police station, William Griffiths was convicted and ordered to pay 7s 6d, the estimated value. He was convicted and discharged for drunkenness in Shortland Street on Thursday. CHARGES OF DRUNKENNESS. Fines pf £5 in default seven days' jmprisonment, were imposed on waiter I'rccstone, aged 58, for his fourth appearance for drunkenness within six months, and on Ernest Edward Cuthbertson Maxey, aged 45, for procuring liquor when prohibited. Maxey was convicted and discharged for drunkenness in Albert btreet on Thursday. "This man was arrested for drunKenness at Devonport and bailed in the sum of £l, but a few hours later he was again arrested for drunkenness," said the seniorsergeant of a middle-aged man, who asked for a chance to return to his work. A fino of £1 was imposed. CARCASES LEFT UNBURIED. Two charges of wilfully leaving the carcases of horses lying within half-a-mile of Wairua Road, Takapuna, on March 19 and 23, were preferred against Charles Logan Pye. , Evidence by Constable Wood showed that the body of a horse was lying in a paddock exposed to view and in a very decomposed state. Pye had been P* G * viously warned to destroy the animal because of its weak condition, said witness, and be had evidently shot it and allowed it to lie where it dropped. About a week later, witness revisited the paddock and found another dead horse lying there unburied. Defendant informed him he had not had time to bury it. On each charge Pye was fined £1 and A fine of £1 and costs was imposed on George David Bates for wilfully leaving the carcase of a calf lying within half-a-mile of the road at Takapuna. Constable Wood stated that he warned defendant to bury the carcase, which was in a decomposed state, but defendant did not obey. HORSES ILL-TREATED. The working of two horses while they were suffering from sores was denied by Claude Masson, as was also a charge of aiding Masson in the commission of an offence, preferred against Walter Treadwell. Sergeant Calwell stated the mares were worked , with unsuitable harness which caused chafing, while one of the animals had a running sore on a foot. Defendants were each fined £1 and costs.