POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20230, 15 April 1929, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

A TROUBLESOME FIREMAN. THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. "This is the man who says the Auckland police are always looking for him, but ho is always thrusting himself in front of the Auckland police," said SubInspector McCarthy in tho Police Court on Saturday, when GeorgeThornham, aged 32, ship's fireman, was Hiarged with drunkenness, breach of .a prohibition order, being unlawfully bri licensed premises and damaging an electric light bulb in the police station cells. Mr. McCarthy said accused had been before the Court six times* within the past six months. "He has been here so often that it must be becoming rather painful for Your Worship to see him here so frequently," he added. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Oh, it does not woivy me very much. Mr. McCarthy said accused was placed in the cells at'the central police station oil Friday evening, and shortly afterwards he started to fight with a Maori who had also been arrested for drunkenness. In the scuffle accused threw a boot at the .Maori, but tho missile struck the electric light bulb. Accused had a bad record. He seemed to treat the whole thing in a casual way and a severe lesson would do him good. Chief-Detective Hammond: He is a Liverpool fireman who will not go to sen. The Magistrate: He could not have done much firing. He has been almost continually in gaol since 1922. Mr. Hammond: He came here in 1922, found a warm climate and cheap beer, and wild horses would not drag him away. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on one charge and was fined £lO, in default, three months' imprisonment on another, the terms to be concurrent. Oeorge Allen Gardiner, aged 50, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness m Queen Street, and £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, for breach of a prohibition order.