POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 13

POLICE COURT NEWS.

REMAND IN RAMARAMA CASE. TRAM CONDUCTOR ASSAULTED. PENALTY OF FIVE POUNDS. Alleged to have committed a- pr.ive offence on a woman, aged 71, at Raniarama, on the evening of November 12, Frederick Thomas Kelly May, aged 24, labourer, appeared on remand in the Police Court yesterday. Detective Knight arrested May at 9.30 p.m. on November 21. On the application of Chief-Detective Hammond, accused was remanded to appear at Pukekoho this morning. Drink was said to have caused the downfall of George Keenan, aged 35, labourer, who pleaded not guilty to charges of drunkenness, using obscene language and resisting a constable who arrested him in Abraham Street. Sentence of one month's imprisonment was passed on accused on tho last count, while on the other two lie was convicted and discharged;

Two X-ray photographs of the jaw of a tram conductor . had to bo taken to ascertain if there was a fracturo after he had been assaulted in a tranicar bv Peter McClaren, aged 49, labourer. Pleading guilty to the charge of assault, Mr. Sullivan said accused had had a few drinks and was irritable. Albert H. Dedman, tram conductor, said ho was away from work for a week. No bones woro broken. McClaren was convicted and fined £5, half of which was ordered to go to Dedruan.

Described as ono who loafed about the waterfront and slept on benches, Edgar James Steere, aged 57, wharf labourer, admitted a charge of being idle and disorderly. " There is nothing but prison for him," commented tho magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, in passing sentenco of three months' imprisonment. Leniency was extended by the magistrate to George Sutton, aged 47, labourer, convicted of assault and drunkenness, only after tho New Lynn constable had undertaken to keep an eyo on him for a period, Sutton, who pleaded guilty, was fined £1 for assault and 5s for drunkenness. A prohibition order was issued against him. Ho is a decent man as a general rule when ho is sober, but ho becomes raving when he takes drink," said Sub Inspector McCarthy. An American labourer, John Albert Samuelsen, aged 23, and William George Springett, aged 27, an English seaman, wero charged with fighting in Queen Street. There was no appearance of Springett, who had been bailed out of the Central Station in tho sum of £2. Jlo was convicted and ordered to forfeit his bail, while Samuelsen was fined £l.