CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15300, 14 November 1911, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

Monday, Novksbeii 13.

(lkforc Mr J. R. Dnrtliolomow, S.M.)

Drunkcniiws.—There wero two first offeiidoi'ii, ono being lined 53 and tho other' 10.4, tlio alternative in each case being 24 hours' imprisonment.—William Jiimw Siiiipjon waH Kned b?, and Angus Miv.ir 10,<, tho alternatives uguiii being thu sumo. PircniAii in Trouulu.—John Patrick Monoghaii, a lircnian on tho Motum, was charged with Ijoiiiu drunk and disorderly, with resisting Constable Chullis, and witli using obscene language. Accused said ho did not remember anything about it.—Thu Sub-inspector nud .that about 10.30 en -Saturday night Constable Challis saw accusi'd in Mat'laggiin street in a drunken condition, Jin was challenging passiTS-by to fight, and tiio constable odvisetl him to |.'o uwuy homo. Accused then becamu inoro uggre.«ivi', and wanU'd to fight tlio constable. When uircsled ho kicked uud struggled ami used Iho language complained of. Evidence was given by Con»ta)>le Challis, and accused slated thut this was the first limu he had ever been beforo u court.—A line of 10s, in default 48 hourV iiuprisonnu-ut, was imposed en the first charge, 20s or seven days' imprisonment on tho Rceond, iind £1 or 14 days' imprisonmerit on tho third.

Urcachce of Prohibition Order?. —Elizabeth M'Coll, a prohibited person, was charged with lieing found on licens.'d premises at Green Island. Accused was convicted nnd discharged.—David Moir, another prohibited person, was churyixi with procuring liquor at Port Chalmers, was finotl 20i. with costs If.

Ily-law Cases.— Ijouis Harncs was charged with driving si motor car at a speed exccciliiiß four miles un hour while turning from Moray place into George street.—Mr Irwin appeared for the defendant, who pleaded "Not guilty."—Coiiftahlo Dunlunl guvo evidence that he was standing at the corner mentioned, ami saw the <kfuiiclmit driving' down Moray place itt a speed uf nut less than nine miles an hour, mid ho turned the corner without altering die speed in the slightest. A number of school children were playing aliout, and then: would liiivp been no possible chanro of avoiding un accident.—Evidence for the defence was given by Robert Collins, the owner of the ear, who was a passenger at the. time.— Station-sergeant King deposed as lo taking tin; writU'ii stnlrinent of iJic defendanf, who said Hint the pace would be between four anil live miles an hour.— A fmu of 10s was imposed, with costo 7s.— Andrew King was charged with leaving a vehicle, uuattemled in Stuart street, and was lined ss, with costs If.— William Taylor win similarly dealt with for allowing a horse to stray on to King street. Disturbance m Walker Street.—Patrick Hussell, a half-caste Maori working on the wliurf, was charged with drunkenness, with assaulting Kum Yon Lee, and with committing mifchief by breaking two gas iniintlus valued at 3s, nnd 12 bottles of kcrosense, valued at 4s, tliq property of the same Chinaman.—Mr Irwin appeared for the accused, and the facts of thn caso were related by SUlion-Rergeanl King, who said tluit about 6.20 p.m. on Saturday accuiPil went, into Kum Yon Loo's shop in Wallter street, 110 was very much under the influence nf liquor, and the Chinawan ordered him lo go out. Instead of doinji so h« picked up a stick used for carrying baskets and hit. Iho Chinanmn over tho head with it, and afterwards committed thu damage lomplaincd of. lie then went out into the street, and ivm arrested by Constable Fcntuii. Tho Chiuaman had to

be attended to by Dγ William.', but \m injuries were not serious, and he wns able to appear in court.—Kiim Yon Leo gav« evidence with tho help of an interpreter. Two Uoyj, named Maims und Mille, who wero eyc-witnresw, rrtul thnt the accused went into the shop with another man, ano spoke to Kum Yon Lee, who ordered him out. He wont out, 'out afterwards returned, and the Chinaman pot a basin of water nnd discharge! the contents over him. Knm Yon lico then seized r. bamboo polo and attempted to strike accused, but he caught hold of it, and struck 'tlio Chinaman on tho head twice with his walking stick. In doing fo ho broke Uio ga» mantles m stated. Two other Chinaman come to Kum Yon Lee's assistance, but tho accused knocked one of them down, and it appears to have been then that the bottles woro broken.—Evidence was , also given by Constable Fcnton.—Mr Irwin submitted that there was no case to answer, but Mr : Bartholomnw took ii contrary view.—Accased then pave evidence, saying that ho niorcly went in to buy fruit. Cross-exam-ined by Station-sergeant Kiiiff, ho adinitt.-d having been ordered out of tho Calodonnn Hotel fust prior to the disturbance,—lhfl .Magistrate said that it was plain that tho accusiid wits in a drunken condition, ind provoked Uio Chinaman. Kum Yon Leo might have acted precipitately, Iml nccusivJ .should have left the nhop when told to do so.—A fine of ss, in default 24 hours Imprisonment, was imposed on tho first charge, and £2 with cost* 10s 6d, in default seven days' imprisonment, on (lie second. On the third ho was ordered to imy tho amount of tho damage, 7s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.