POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

MAN IN BOARDING HOUSE. PROSECUTION FOLLOWS. Stated to have slept, in a bedroom at a city boarding house without authority, a barman, John Hart, aged 37, pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday morning to a charge of having been found without lawful excuse on premises at 30, Wellington Street, owned by Thomas King, on Sunday morning. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said that ou Sunday morning the owner of the boarding house found that accused, who had no authority to do so, had slept in a bedroom. The room belonged to a boarder who was absent. Accused had no money to pay for the room. The owner of the premises had experienced trouble with Hart previously. After accused had stated, in reply to Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., that he did not know why he had gone to tho house when his home was near by, he was convicted and fined £l, default being fixed at thrco days' imprisonment. A drive in a taxieab for which he could not pay was responsible for the appearance of James McGregor, aged 45, farm manager, who was charged with being drunk in the Great North Road on Saturday and with obtaining credit by fraud by incurring a debt of 15s. He admitted being drunk, but stated ho bad sufficient money to pay for the taxieab. Hie subinspector said accused had been picked up by a taxieab at the corner of l'ark Road' and Ivhybir Pass and had been driven to New Lynn, where ho ordered the driver to take him elsewhere. When he was asked to pay tho faro he said, "There are only two of us here; we will have it out." He had then been driven to the police station. The magistrate imposed a fine of 5s on the first charge and ordered McGregor to pay expenses on the .second, default being fixed at 24 hours and three days' imprisonment respectively. When a charge of stealing a suit of clothes, valued at £4, the property of Robert Donald Campbell, at Auckland, on .lime 16 was preferred against Charles Morgan, aged 2b, labourer, who was arrested at Kerepeehi on Saturday. Chief Detective Jlammond asked for a remand until Friday. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was remanded for sentence.