POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

ARREST AFTER FIVE MONTHS.

ASSAULT IN WELLINGTON. FINE IMPOSED ON SHOWMAN. After a search of five months, the police arrested James Logic, alias Kelly, aged 26, a showman, in Auckland a week ago on a charge of having assaulted John J. Oliver in a hotel in Wellington. When charged in tho Polico Court yesterday accused pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Hammond said that after the assault Logio left Wellington and tho polico had searched New Zealand for him since then. In a scuffle at the (op of the stairway in a hotel accused had struck one man and knocked another from the head of the stairs to the bottom. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, imposed a fine of £5. Default was fixed at one month's imprisonment. Reginald J. Shergold, labourer, of Ponsonby (Mr. Schramm), was charged with having assaulted Daniel South outsido a cafo in the city on tho evening of April 2. As South did not appear, tho magistrate dismissed tho charge for want of prosecution. Charged with using obscene language in Rimu Street, New Lynn, on Wednesday, Francis Michael O'Grady, aged CO, carrier, was fined £2. For drunkenness, he was convicted and discharged. A week's remand was granted in the case of Henry Merrick, aged 43, bushman, who was charged with being idle and disorderly in that lie had no means of support.