POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

- FOUND /ON A STEALER. TWO MEN CONVICTED. "If they want to leave New Zealand wo do not want to stop them; they will be convicted and discharged," said, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., when Thomas' Kelly, aged 31, and John Penny, aged 21, were charged in the Police Court yesterday with being . found without lawful excuse on the steamer Southern Cross. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Edwards said the accused went on board the vessel on the evening prior to their arrest with. the intention of stowing away. They were found by the engineer and handed over to the police. They could not ,be charged with stowing away, as the vessel had not then left. Captain Davies/ of the Salvation Army, was prepared to look, after Penny. The other man was well able to care for himself. Nothing was known against Penny. He was a Eurasian. Kelly came out of prison only last month, after serving a term of 12 months* imprisonment on his twenty-fifth conviction. MISCELLANEOUS CASES. Arthur Clibboin 'Stone, aged 31, appeared for sentence on a charge of deserting from the steamer Ituapehu at Wellington on March 15. Senior-Detective Hammond said the vessel was due to sail from Wellington on April 26, and accused was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment and ordered to be placed on board the steamer when it sailed, "I ask for a remand until to-morrow," said Thomas Nizich, aged 34, when charged with assaulting Constable O'Connor while in the "execution of his duty. The remand was granted, bail being fixed at £lO.