POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

DAMAGE TO THEATRE DOOR. MAN ORDERED TO PAY COSTS. Charges of being drunk in Queen Street on Saturday and of damaging a plate-glass door, valued at £6, were admitted in tho Police Court yesterday by William Barr, aged 61, labourer. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said accused, who was in a state of drunkenness, had fallen through one of Iho doors at a city theatre. Ho had a list of 14 previous convictions. "It is a dangerous door," said accused. "It swung and hit me on the back of tho head, knocking me down." "You are tho first person it has hit," remarked tho magistrate, Mr. F, K. Hunt. "Those doors were condemned in Glasgow 50 years ago," continued Barr. "lhat does not. mean that you can break them here," replied the. magistrate, who convicted and discharged accused on tho first charge, and ordered him to pay the damage on the second. Default was fixed at 14 days' imprisonment. W hen charges of being drunk in Queen Street on Saturday and of using obscene language were preferred against Charles O'Connor, aged 36, bushman, the sub-in-spector said accused arid another man had been creating a disturbance in the street early on Saturday evening Accused refused to keep quiet, and used the terms complained of to a constable in the hearing of a largo crowd. O'Connor was convicted and discharged for being drunk, and was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, on the other charge. On the application of Chief-Detective Hammond, Percy Curr, aged 23, labourer, who was charged with being idlo and disorderly, was remanded for a week for sentence after ho had pleaded guilty. The chief detective said accused, who was.a recent arrival from England and had clone liitle good .since his arrival, had obtained a suit of clothes fi'om a benevolent society and had at onco sold it to a dealer. *