POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

"INCORRIGIBLE OFFENDER." LABOURER'S WOUNDED HEAD. DAMAGE TO CONSTABLE'S SHAKO With a bandage covering his head, John Denehy, aged 43, labourer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday to being drunk in Myers Park on Thursday. "Because of n wound on his head, accused had to bo medically examined," said Sub-Inspector McCarthy. "He is incorrigible, and is always in prison. He has 70 previous convictions and never pays fines." Denehy was fined £5, and was ordered to pay doctor's fee, £1 Is. Default was fixed at one month's imprisonment. "He 'bashed' my shako and kicked me when I was taking him to the central station for being drunk," said Constable O'Sullivan, in referring to Thomas Martin, aged 52, fireman, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness in Queen Street. "I was so drunk I cannot remember anything," Martin said, when further charged with damaging the policeman's hat and assaulting him. On the first count accused was fined £5, while on the other charges he was convicted and discharged. Default was fixed at one month's imprisonment. Homeless and penniless, Johft Barclay, aged 57, labourer, was charged with being idle and disorderly. It was said accused was found on the waterfront at five o'clock that morning. Barclay was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon in twelve months.

Arising out of a squabble over a girl, Robert. Purdy, aged 21, appeared charged by Robert Whistler, aged 25, with having assaulted him at Grey Lynn one evening recently. Mr. Sullivan, for Purdy, said there had been a little friction between the parties over a girl. For Whistler, Mr. Ivirker said Whistler's nose had been splintered and both his c3"es blackened. Holding Purdy guilty, the magistrate imposed a fine of £5, ordering half the amount, to be paid to Whistler, who had lost 2!; days' work. Fines of 10s were imposed o.i Daniel Minihau, aged 40, who denied charges of beiug drunk at. the Auckland railway station entrance, and of procuring liquor while prohibited. Charges of being found in the Hobson Hotel after hours were denied by Edwin Gibbons, Pell W. Humberstone, Borgoia McYeagh and Jack Pratt. The defence was that tho four men were boarders and had intended to stay at tho hotel for a week-end. Tho magistrato held there was a doubt, and dismissed the cases. Resulting from friction between two neighbours in Freeman's Bay, John McLachlan, middle-aged, asked for sureties of the peace against Evelyn do Senna, married, on tho ground that she had used insulting and provoking language. The magistrate ordered De Senna to enter into her own bond of £lO to keep tho peace for six months. A fine of 20s was imposed on William Preston on a charge of having assaulted Frederick Steyer.