POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE CASE. IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT. Appearing for sentence on a charge of attempting to commit suicide, Frederick Arthur Scanlon, aged 29, had nothing to say in the Police Court yesterday. A further charge of the theft of £1 jvas admitted. " He has a bad temper, and is an annoyance to women in the district," said Senior-Sergeant Cummings. "I do not think he is quite normal. Perhaps it would be better if he were away in gaol for a time. Regarding the theft charge, a man gave him a pound note to get some cigarettes, but he used the money instead." On the first charge Scanlon was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, while on the second charge he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Sentence of three months' imprisonment was passed on Ronald Charles Malino Hunt, aged 25, on a charge of failing to comply with the terms of his release on probation, to which he had been admitted in 1925. Unfavourable reports on accused were given by Mr. W J. Campbell, probation officer. Charged with escaping from Roto Roa Island on Thursday, Ross Thompson Munro, aged 34, was remanded to appear to-morrow. Bail was allowed. Accused pleaded not guilty. It was said it was a question of whether Munro's detention was legal or not. Pleading guilty to a charge of being disorderly while drunk on Prince's Wharf on Monday, James Gordon, aged 34, seaman, was fined £l. " This old man is a hopeless case," said the senior sergeant, referring to James Gregg Cummings, aged 76, who pleaded guilty to ,being idle and disorderly. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.