CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 6

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, January 30. (Before Mr H. \V. Bundle, S.M.) SERIOUS CHARGES. John Willis appeared on remand on a charge of having used Indecent language in Maclaggan street, and was also further charged with indecent assault on & boy. Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for the accused, who wa s again remanded till Wednesday on the application of Detective Beer. Willis, who was. remanded in the sum of £25 ane one surety of £25, on the second charge, was ordered to report to the police daily. AFTER HOURS TRADING. Pauline Matthews, for ihom llr W, L Moore appeared, was charged with having sold liquor after hours, and with haying allowed if to be consumed on the premises Sub-inspector Fahey said that a litte after midnight on January 8 a constable ,visited the Green Island Hotel, and, found three men in the kitchen. There were three glasses of beer on the tab.c. Defendant'had "stated that the men came 7 to the hotel for tea about 8 p.m., and hail overstayed. Defendant had never been, pie; viously before the court, and. had never given the police any trouble. The three men had been fined oft Friday’ for rthen 'part in the affair.—Mr Moore said the matter was more in the nature of a technical' breach.. The men had turned -up late for tea, And. as they had stayed on, defendant had got supper for them, including a glass of beer each, for which no payment was asked or made. - inblinds of the bar had been up all the evening.—The Sub-inspector agreed to withdraw the charge of se.hng. and^ defendant pleaded guilty to the second charge, and was fined £3, with costs. SALE OF A CAR., John Stone was charged that, having sold a motor car he failed to notify the deputyregistrar. . Motor Services, Ltd., we. a similarly charged in respect to the saU} of a’ car to Robert Dell, who with James Hchrv Bell, was charged with ham, bought a car registered at Dunedin w itbo.it obtaining an endorsed certificate a licence. The latter of the was also charged with being an ' l " l ’ ccn a j driver Robert Bell alone appeared and So claimed that- he had not accepted *- liverv of the car bought by W; ' f P/ .• The y car he admitted, was registered -a ine car, «« ni: Sutnmspector -fir ifsSz d n r .. ": i,h r "ifg sjfjswiss ““s-iSsuriW. x" 20s -and costs* „t"t?t tV PERSISTENT CRE'ELTx. by his wit. 2 ‘"t.J 111 j son the grounds and guardianship maintenance. — of persistent crueltj _reoriented by Mr Complainant, "ho . P was married in J. B. Thomson, said she wed . April last, and 011 _ re j the defendant din g, fo a matter of had said the marr g violence towards business. He ua e bad time—a her. and bad had £lso promise he had f . , had spent nHined ol\oo much interference from outSe from the outset.— Separation and guardianship orders were panted.- a maintenance was fixed at £1 I-« week Costs (ss) were allowed. The Magistrate said that if the complainant found r ' order for variation could be made -later, but in his opinion the defendant deserved no consideration. MAINTENANCE CASES. ’ Alexander John Wilson was charged on two informations with disobedien maintenance orders. *he_ amounts being £49 12s 6d and £ls li» 6“- V Jif White appeared-for the- de.emlant, id Mr A. C P Hanlon for the complainant Defendant gave details oi his ear.. inge to prove that he could not keep up h"s payments. The wife and Aild were in work themselves.— Mr Y a ?!? n cross-examined defendant as to his hah ts. witness admitting that he drank a littK and frequented cabarets. The case . . adjourned to allow of defendants book* being examined. ' Harold Warner Reid, who did not apnea was charged with disobedience of a maintenance order., the arrears on win- h were £2 2s 3d.—Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for defendant, and said that a further £8 had accumulated since the complaint was lodged.—Defendant was sentenced'to oiie month’s imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended if he paid fS. Joseph Mansoor, who did not appear, was similarly charged .in respect of an order covering eight or nine children.— Mr Irwin, for the complainant, said the man was a hawker and racecourse frequenter. He was a man of means, and was without doubt a .malingerer.—Defendant was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. the warrant to be suspended on payment of arrears (£l2).