POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

THREATENING LANGUAGE. MAN DISREGARDS WARNING. A chargo of using threatening, insulting and abusive language was preferred against John Ross in the Police Court yesterday. Ho pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said on the evening of March 18 accused accosted Mr. D. 11. Connehy, a member of the Mount Eden Borough Council, in Mount Eden Road. Accused started a conversation and spoke in an abusive manner about the Mayor and councillors of Mount Eden, and a local constable who happened to be passing. The constablo warned accused, and accused subsequently wrote to the Commissioner of Police and nude a complaint about the constable.

In asking for leniency counsel submitted the offence wis not very serious. "Had iny client no; written to the commissioner he would no), have been prosecuted; he has only himself to blame," added counsel.

"You will be fined 405," the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, told accused, "and you may consider yourself fortunate in escaping a much larger penalty. Next timo you get a warning from the police, take it." For using obscene language within hearing of u public place, Thomas Joseph Wilson, a middle-aged labourer, was fined £1 and costs, 16s, and for wilfully damaging a motor-cycle, the property of James Edward Bone, he was ordered to make good the damage, £4.