CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16589, 12 January 1916, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT

Tuesday, Janttajiy 11. (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) Drunkenness.—A mule first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A Filtliy Offence.—Patrick Mullin was charged with drunkenness, with having cast offensive matter, and with having committed a grossly indecent act in Princes street South on Monday morning.—Constable Mull-un said that he found the accused lying on the footpath, in view ot a number of women and girls who were passing.— The accused said that he had not taken any liquor for a year, and ho was willing to take out a prohibition order.—The Magistrate said that ho would not send the accused to gaol, as he had no previous record. On the charge of drunkenness 1 he would be fined 7s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, and on the second charge he would be fined £5 (costs 6s), with the alternative of one morith's imprisonment.—The third charge was withdrawn. A Sudden Temptation.—Leslie Ritchie, a young man 19 years of age, wag charges with having stolen £4, the property of George Gourley. He pleaded guilty.—De-tective-sergcant Kemp said that the accused was a grocer's carter, and called on Mrs Gourley, who owed his employer £1 Os Ojcl. She handed him a fivo-pound note (mistaking it for a pound) and a halfpenny. Ho gave her 6d discount. When the mistake was discovered Mi' Gourley called on the accused, who denied that he had been given £5. Later, however, ho admitted the olTencc to Detective Hall, and gave him back £4.—MrAxelsen said that the accused bore an exceptionally good character. His employer had trusted him with hundreds of pounds, and had never known him to be dishonest.—The Magistrate said that it was, apparently, a case of a young man having suceumbcd to sudden temptation, without having criminal inclinations. He would be convicted *>nd ordered to coim up for sentence at any time when called on within 12 months. Mr Axelsen would exercise supervision over him.