POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20924, 14 July 1931, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN. ALLEGATION BY COUNSEL. " This woman was brutally assaulted by her husband and wishes to lay an information against him," said Mr. Sullivan in the Police Court yesterday, when Hilda Wainui, aged 30, domestic, was charged with using obscene language. She pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that at about 9.45 p.m. on Sunday Constable Sherson was attracted by a crowd outside a theatre in Queen Street. Accused was waving a stick and using obscene language within the hearing of pedestrians. She then chased her husband down the street and was arrested.

The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, remarked that as accused had been in custody overnight ho would not impose a further penalty. ing disturbances at the Auckland City Mission's ' doss ' , house," said Sergeant Clark, in referring to Donald McKerizie Cameron, aged 32, labourer, who was charged with using obscene language in Hobson Street on Saturday evening. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to a months imprisonment. For stealing a gold watch, valued at £5 ss, Violet Smith, aged 24, domestic, was admitted to probation for 12 months. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said the watch, which accused stated she had lost, belonged to accused's former employer. The question of restitution was left to the discretion of the probationer officer, Major Annie Gordon, of the Salvation Army.