CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20256, 15 November 1927, Page 4

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, November 14. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. John Willis, a prohibited person, was charged with drunkenness, and was fined 20s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. ALLEGED FRAUD. Martiria Franklin, a middle-aged woman, was charged with, at Invercargill, by incurring a liability, obtaining taxi hire valued at £7 2s 6d, from Alexander Culder by means of fraud. On a second charge, the woman was charged with obtaining taxi hire, valued at £ls 10s, from Alfred .lonn Banks, by means of fraud.—Chief Detective Cameron asked for a remand to Invercargill, the defendant to appear there on the 18th. The facts wore that the woman was arrested on Sunday by Detectives Russed and Allsopp on reaching Dunedin m a taxi, which she had obtained by falsely representing that she had loft her money in an hotel in Invercargill. _ As a matter of fact, the woman was penniless. 1 «*e defendant was remanded to appear at In vercarg : 'i ot- igth ins f MAINTENANCE ORDERS. William omnh Dryden was charged with tho disobedience of a maintenance oiejci in respect to his wife. The arrears utiuei the order amount to £Bl. Mr O Shea ap peared for the defendant. It was state! that the parties had come to an agreement, on condition that the arrears' were remitted.—John York Boyars appeared to answer his wife’s complaint for a maintenance order, etc—Mr B. S Irwin appeared for the complainant; Mr D. C. Muir for the defendant.—After evidence by the detenuant, the case was adjourned for a week with a view to husband and wife conferring on the position. DEFENCE EQUIPMENT. Francis Morris Hancock was charged with neglecting to deliver to the Defence Department equipment valued at £1 a? The defendant did not appear. -Sergeantmajor Cummings gave evidence, after wh en an order was made that the defendant should pay the amount of £1 9s 7d, with court costs (10s). DISTURBANCE AT A DANCE. Alfred Edward Arundale was charged with using threatening behaviour in the Trades Hal! in Moray place on Satin day night while a public entertainment wa= being held. Mt B. S Irwin appeared for the defendant, who pleaded guilty Sub-inspector Fahey said the defendant visited the Trades Hall on Saturday uit,nt to attend a dance. At supper time, when he was slightly under the influence o. liquor, he started to throw bread abou and struck the doorkeeper, who was at suoner His entrance money was retmned to hTm. and he was then, taken to the door where he made a disturbance and damaged the door. Defendant wen away and returned later, wanting to fight- the defendant was .before the court some time ago on a similar charge, and was fined f Mr Irwin mid the m.n'. WOP' «“* zsrs sx a ta • dealt with him and gave a Wack reason he returned , to doorkeeper. Th. ob J M d in [; r . A «» r‘ ,b, “ i 0” offi “ r on the defendant s character. CAR WRONGLY NUMBERED. WilHnn Henry Hamilton was charged, with' causing affixed to a motor car T number which was not the appropriate d lStf Seibert, ten. fioinff the unlicensed driver of a motor car and with affixing to a motor car a number which was not-the appropriate des£ned number. —Hamilton pleaded not guilty; Roberts did not appear .-Subinspector Fahey said that on October 23 Roberts was found driving a car n H.igh street. It had no front number on it. Hamilton was in the car. ihe ponce asked the driver where the number was, and the reply was that it was inside the car. The constable saw a number on the back of the car. Roberts said: “To tell vou the truth, that is not the number ot the car.” X took the number off Hamilton’s car and put it on this car: TVip number of his own car was It his home. He. admitted that he had no license, and said that he did not need one, as he was sitting alongside a man who had a license. Roberts had been using the car for six months without a license. Hamilton admitted that he had taken the number off his own car and put it on Roberts’s. Roberts had been previously before the court for a similar ogence.—The constable who spoke to the men in the car gave evidence—Hamilton said that both his car and Roberts s were numbered, but Roberts’s number was lost, and witness's number was put on Roberts s car to go to a garage. Witness’s car was undergoing repairs. The number fell off the car, and was then put inside the car. Roberts had no license because he wanted Ito get rid of his car.—His Worship said Roberts must have known he was committing an offence in affixing a wrong number, it was probable Hamilton was also aware of it. For this offence Hamilton would be fined 10s. and costs, and Roberts 40s, and costs, and the latter, for driving without a license, w-ould be convicted and discharged. ASSAULT. Martha Samson pleaded guilty to a charge of, on October 27, at Dunedin, assaulting Selina Margaret Wilkinson. — Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for the defendant. —Sub-inspector Fahey said that the defendant went to Mrs Wilkinson’s house in Burns street on the afternoon of October 27. She knocked at the door, and said if she was not admitted she would break the windows. She said she had come along to make friends with Mrs Wilkinson. Evidently there had* been a sparring match between them previous to this. Mrs Wilkinson opened the door, and the defendant went inside, took Mrs Wilkinson by the hand, patted her, and then said “ I will kill you.” Taking up a walking stick, she struck Mrs Wilkinson with it. The latter ran outside, and the defendant followed her and hit her on the head, causing injuries which required medical attention. Several people came along, and defendant was taken away.—Mr Irwin said the two women had a difference, starting over very little, and the matter worked up until it resulted in Mrs Samson being now before the court. He had talked the position over with Mr Hanlon (solicitor for Mrs Wilkinson) and it was not likely there would be any more trouble. The defendant was a respectable married woman. His Worship asked what were the injuries Mrs Wilkinson had suffered.—Subinspector Fahey said the woman sustained a cut on the head, but she was all right now. —The defendant was fined 20s, and court costs (225), and her solicitor undertook to pay the medical expenses (£2 11s).