POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19406, 14 August 1926, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR.

MIDNIGHT STREET EPISODE.

THREE MEN FINED £2 EACH.

" Their singing and yelling woke up the sergeant at the Newton Police Station," said Senior-Sergeant Edwards in the Police Court when Frederick Griffiths, Amy Campbell Bennett, and Hugh O'Brien (Mr. Sullivan), pleaded guilty to behaving in a disorderly manner. The senior-sergeant said that shortly after midnight a constable on duty at College Hill heard the men going along the street singing and shouting at tho top of their voices. They wore singing a number of old songs with variations that were not very choice.

Tne accused were fined £2 each, and were allowed a week in which to pay.

INCIDENT IN TELEPHONE BOX. Charges of using insulting and indecent language in a telephone-box in Great North Road, Newton, were admitted by a boy aged 16, whose name was ordered to bs suppressed. The senior-sergeant said accused rang up a girl from a slot telephone-box, and when her father answered tho telephone he used the expression complained of. It was a difficult matter to detect offences of this sort.

Counsel for accused said ho was a very decent boy. and had been for three years in the church choir. There were two others in tho telephone-box with him at the time.

The magistrate, Mr. Poynton: In view of his excellent record ho will be ordered to pay costs on one charge if tho other is withdrawn.

The senior-sergeant agreed to tho withdrawal of tho second charge. ■

ATTEMPTED THEFT CASE.

An attempt to steal a pieeo of timber valued at Is 6d was admitted by David Thomas McvVilliara.

The isenior-3crgeant said accused had been observed on a section where a building wag, being erected. Ho was watched and was seen to pick up a piece of timber and commence to take it away. When stopped he said he was going to find the owner to buy the timber. His mentality was not quite normal. It was not considered he was a thief. Accused'was fined £2 with costs.

MISCELLANEOUS CASES. A plea of guilty was entered by Thomas Patrick McGowan, aged 30, and William Martin, aged 33, charged with being disorderly while drunk in Customs Street West.

The senior- sergeant said accused began to shape up to each other, and one man got a blow in before a constable standing by could intervene. Both 1 accused; had previous convictions. A fine 6f £2. ii default three days" imprisonment, was imposed in each case. For casting offensive matter in Albert Street, John Spring was fined £2 in default 14 days' imprisonment.