CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14002, 7 September 1907, Page 15

CITY POLICE COURT.

' EIIIDAY, September o':,' (Before,Mr 11. Y. Widtjowstfii, S.M.)

Drunkenness.—A fino ofj.&vor. 24! honri': impikoimient, was imposed on a first offender lo". dTunkoni<9S3. - .'A !.. . Brtach cf .df Prohibition Order.—John Jl'Cluskyi alias' M'Liskcy, ali»3 Jt'Osskcr, was oharged with dnuikennesa anil also with procuring liquor during flio','currency of st prohibition' order in' fore* 'against' him.—■ The neeuscd pleaded that lie did not know' th-it a, prohibition order' taken against him' a' Tiivctcnrgill extended to Dunedin. —A flno of'2os, ov 11 days', imprisonment.. wu9 im--1>o=(h1 for tlio brttich of tibo prohibition order, ami,-accuscd was convicted and' discharged on the.sScond charge. V Variation of a Maintenance Order—On Ills-application of'Hojetk. Mowbray, .a maintenance. order againM -lior husband, -William; Mowbray, was varied -from 5s to 17s Gd.per;. we.k. Breaking and Entering.—Henry Francis Smith, under lenmud for sentence to tlio Supremo Court on two previous olutrgos, was charged with breaking and entering a house in course'of constructioit in Union street, and ptcaling therefrom a quantity of carpenter's tools, valued »t '£3 10s, tlio property of' It. 'W'. Duncan.—The • informant (Mr DuucniO eta-tod that the thoft occurred on tho 17th August fintl - that on ill© afternoon of that dnto the building was locked' up and fecured—tho windows closed down, and tho doors fastened. The bock door of tlio libuso was closed and secured by withdrawing .the doqr handle. On returning to the building on the Monday following ho discovered that nn entrance hud boon, effootod by ihffcrtiiig anpthor handlo in Mie'door. Tlie tools produced in court wore bis property, and were taken from : tlio bouse, and were recovered l\v' the polioe.—H. Baylev, second-hand doiilcr. - Crrcat King" street, stated that on the 17th ult, at about fi o'clock in tho evening, accused eamo to him, with tho tools, and anted him to purchase tlicm. Accused stated that the tools wero bis own, that his name was Loft, and that ho came from \Yongamii. Witness purchased tlio tools for. 7s Cd.—Detcetivo M'Lood slated that when' no nrreslcd r.ccused on tlio 21st ult. on another charge, be admitted that be had taken the'-tools and sold them.—Accused plcr-dctl •' rjniKy." luid wns remanded lo Mie Supremo Court for sentence.