POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

SON-IN-LAW ASSAULTED.;

FAMILY FEARS ACCUSED.

A plea of guilly was entered by George Kemble, aged 57, in the Police Court yesterday to a charge of assaulting his son-in-law, Henry Brewer, at Avondale.

The police stated Brewer and his family considered bhey W6re unsafe when Kemble was drinking.

Accused, who undertook to keep away from his son-in-law's house, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called, upon within 12 months. John Wilson, . aged 69, labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit suicide at Rangiriri on November 8. Senior-Sergeant McCarthy said the man was a hard worker, but he had been out. of employment. Accused was convicted and ordered to pay costs. "I am awfully sorry 1 am guilty," said Cecelia Ah Lap, aged 36, married, when admitting charges of" being drunk in Queen Street and committing a breach of h6r, prohibition order. On the first, charge accused was fined £1 and on the second charge £5. Charged with being idle and difcorderly James Steere, aged 56, labourer, was fined £l.

Arrested on Thursday night, Thomas Donovan, aged 37, appeared charged with an offence on a boy. A week's remand was granted. A similar remand was granted in the case of Richard Kent, aged 46, who admitted a charge of indecent exposure. ! "Further charges are pending," said Chief-Detective Cummings. An elderly man, Henry William Swift Part on, charged with breaking and entering the house of P. M. Smith and stealing £9 5s worth of goods, was remanded for a week. For trespassing on the Alexandra Park trotting course Edgar W. T. Herbert, a person convicted of theft and excluded from entering the course, was fined £lO. Leslie R. Fisher pleaded guilty- to charges pf using obscene language and pf assaulting Lanchlan G. Dunn. • Police statements were to the effect that accused had endeavoured to gain admission to an entertainment, and on. being refused he became abusive and assaulted one of the ' social committeemen. 0n : (Ragh phaigs .accused jgas Hned[ >£&, n