POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 16

POLICE COURT NEWS.

SEVERAL ASSAULT CASES. INCIDENT IN BOARDING HOUSE. Holding that she had spat in ihe face of a constable, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday imposed a fine of £3 on Suzana Muldoon, boarding house keeper, married, charged with assaulting Constable du Temple in the execution of his duty. It was staied Mrs. Muldoon struck her cook, who subsequently took tho policeman to tho house. • Constable du Temple said that when lie arrived Mrs. Muldoon spat in -liis face. In fining accused tho magistrate said the uniform of a policeman must be respected. Summoned for assaulting David Silva, James Grant, middle-aged, pleaded not guilty. Called to prove ho had been assaulted, Silva denied Grant had struck him. Grant and another man wero scuffling over two bottles of beer when lie interfered in order to separate them. He may have been "shoved," but he was not assaulted. The case was dismissed. Stating (hat lie was innocent, Leslie Murray, a young man, charged with assaulting Joseph South in France Street, said he would call South to prove he had not assaulted him. Evidence was then given by South, who said the police had made a mistake in charging Murray, as* ho had not been assaulted. The arresting constable stated that when he arrived on the scene South's nose, was bleeding. The magistrate held Murray guilty and ordered him to pay 20s costs. On a charge of stealing timber, valued at 15s, Edward L. Baggstrorn, middleaged, was convicted and discharged. . The theft of a bicycle was admitted by William Henry Pevreal, aged 40, labourer, who was remanded to appear for sentence on Tuesday. The machine belonged to Henry Tate, who valued if at £lO. Described by Mr. W. J. Campbell, probation officer, as being a liar, Arthur William Geoffrey Mold, aged 24, labourer, married, was charged with stealing £lO belonging to Harold R. Hanson, baker, by whom be was employed as carter. "Accused is untruthful and has treated his wife badly," said Mr, Campbell. Mold bad shattered a respectable man's home bv running off with his wife, leaving Mrs. i Mold and the children to faro as they could in Auckland. Previously ho had been placed on probation for two years for theft, but he bad proved unsatisfactory. Mr. Campbell considered accused needed reformative detention. The magistrate convicted and sentenced accused to 12 months' reformative detention. In respect of a .charge of committing a breach of his probationary licence, to which ho pleaded guilty, Mold was convicted and discharged.