POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

STOWED AWAY AT SYDNEY. MAN PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED. A labourer, Stanley Roy Mansfield, aged 21, of New South Wales, appeared before Mr. E. G. Cutlen, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of stowing away on the Maunganui at Sydney on December 24. The offence, was admitted. In asking for a remand until January 5, Detective-Sergeant T. Kelly said Mansfield had been deported from New Zealand in November and steps would have to be. taken to deport accused again. The remand was granted. Wilfred Isaac Morgan, aged 43, driver, was charged with being drunk in Hobson Street, on December 28, using indecent language and incurring a debt of Is with Mary Houston by fraud. Accused admitted tho charge of drunkenness, but pleaded not guilty to tho other charges. The police evidence was that Morgan had a meal at a restaurant, and, on being asked for payment, had used indecent language. The magistrate fined Morgan £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, for using indecent language, accused being convicted and discharged for the other offences. A charge of stealing a clock valued at 9s 6d, the property of Mary Houston, on December 28 was preferred against Charles Joseph McC'usker, aged 39, labourer, who pleaded guilty. Mr. Kelly said McCuskcr had been found stealing the article from Mrs. Houston's restaurant. Accused explained to the magistrate that he had been drunk and did tioi remember committing the offence. He was fined £2. in default seven days' imprisonment, two weeks being allowed in which to find the money.