POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGE OF VAGRANCY. WOMAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY. "A JOB AT WHANGAREI." "She has been in and out of this Court for the last 10 years," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., when Queenie Harwood, aged ?A (Mr. Fennell), was charged in the Police Court yesterday with vagrancy at New Lynn, Accused pleaded not guilty. Constable Horan said he arrested accused at her. home on Saturday afternoon. She had been living with a Chinese off and on for some time and frequently went to stay at Chinese gardens. She had no means of support. Mr. Fennell: She says she can get a job at Whangarei. The magistrate convicted accused and ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon, a condition to be that she proceed to Whangarei at once, ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. A charge of being absent without leave from the steamer Horatius on April 27 was admitted by William Palmer. Chief-Detective Cummings said accused's ship had sailed for England during his absence. He had a wife and child m England, and said that he intended to settle in New Zealand and send for his wife and child as soon as he could. So far as could be ascertained his character was good. A fine of £2 was imposed. Crissie O'Flannagan, aged 25, appeared for sentence on a charge that, being- an inmate of the Pakatoa Inebriates' Home, she was guilty of insubordination by refusing to perform the duties alloted to her. The senior sergeant said that since the charge was laid accused had been granted her discharge irom the island to enable her to go to friends in Sydney. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, on condition that she left her Sydney as soon as possible. CHARGE OF BURGLARY. On a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling of George H. Ogilvie, St. Heliers Bay, on April 27, and stealing £2 6s from a gas meter, Russell Sydney Diamond, aged 21, was remanded unti) Thursday, bail being fixed at £IOO. FIGHTING IN THE STREET. A fine of £1 was imposed on Robert Henry Johnston, aged 32, on a charge of fighting in Victoria Street. CASES AT OHEHIINGA. WOMAN TO KEEP THE PEACE. Ih the Onehunga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., Mrs. Violet Grace Robinson pleaded guilty to assaulting Benjamin Parriss and his wife, but not guilty to wilful trespass on their premises. It was stated she went to their house and accused them of taking her husband away, but they stated in evidence that he was boarding with them, although he was not there just then. When requested to leave accused pulled up some plants in the garden, and threw them at Mr. and Mrs. Parriss, through the window. Accused was ordered to keep the peace for 12 months and to pay £1 9s- costs on the charge of assault, Frederick Charles Weiss was convicted and ordered to take out a prohibition order for two years, on a charge of using insulting words, indecent language and threatening language toward Fireman Downey, in charge of the Onehunga lire station.