CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20400, 5 May 1928, Page 22

CITY POLICE COURT.

Friday, Mat 4. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) LICE-INFECTED SHEEP. For exposing Jiee-infected sheep for sale at Burnside yards Charles Harrison was fined 10s and costs (12s). A SERIOUS CHARGE. A young man, who was represented by Mr B. S. Irwin, pleaded guilty to having committed an indecent act, with the intention of annoying a boy seven years of age.—A statement from the accused and one from the boy were handed to the magistrate, who, after perusing them, remanded the accused for a week pending reports from the gaol surgeon and the probation officer.. Suppression of the name of the accused was ordered until the facts were gone into. MOTOR BY-LAW CASES. For failing to give way at a street intersection to a vehicle approaching from the right, John Gordon was fined 5s and costs (10s). Stanley David Newman and William Benjamin Freeman, for driving motor cars without a license were each fined ss» A fine of 5s and costs (10s) was imposed on Henry Markham for failing to have his motor car properly lighted. For leaving, his motor car unattended for more than 15 minutes in a public place, Alexander Reid, jun., was fined 5s and costs (10s). For cutting a corner at the intersection of Victoria and Prince Albert roads, Wjllaim Henry Saunders was fined ss, wi"th witness’s expenses (13s) and court costs (10s). ASSAULT. Allan Budge pleaded guilty to having, at Macandrew’s Bay, assaulted Allan Bruce Scott.—Sub-inspector Fahey said that on the evening of March 31 the defendant, who was under the influence of liquor, went to a dance at the hall at Macandrew’s Bay. The complainant was acting as doorkeeper, and when ho refused to admit the accused, the latter struck him, breaking his false teeth. The Sub-inspector mentioned that a good deal of trouble had been caused at the hall by youths who had been drinking. Ihe defendant was fined £3, with witness’s expenses (£1), in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. LICENSING CASES. The Magistrate delivered his reserved judgment in the case in which John Alex, ander Shearer, who, in company with John Richard Anderson, James Edward Pope, John Sharp, Douglas Jamieson, arm Ancel Lloyd, was previously charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Shamrock Hotel after hours—After reviewing the evidence for the prosecution, his Worship said that ho was ol opinion that the witnesses for the prosecution, having seen the defendant in the hotel, could be said to have found him. He thought that the phrase ‘‘ being found ” connoted no more vhan “ being seen.” The defendant would be convicted and fined 20s, and costs (10s).— Mr E. J. Anderson, who appeared for the defendant, asked his Worship to fix the costa of air appeal on a point of law, and his Worship, in fixing costs at_ £7 7s, formally adjourned the cases against Anderson, Sharp, Pope, Lloyd, and Jamieson until such time as the question of appeal is settled.—ln connection with these cases, Isabella Howard, the wife of the licensee of the hotel, was charged on two counts with supplying liquor to persons under the age of_ 21 years, and also on a count of supplying liquor after hours. The licensee, Lawrence Howard, was similarly charged.—After reviewing the evidence, the Magistrate convicted and fined Mrs Howard £5, and costs (10s), on each information. —Mr A. C. Hanlon, who appeared for the defendant, requested that the fine be increased to £5 Is to allow of an appeal being made, and asked his Worship to fix the costs of a general appeal.—The fine was increased accordingly, and the costs of an appeal were fixed at £lO IDs.—The charges against the licensee were adjourned sine die until the question of an appeal had been decided. A charge of being found after hours on licensed premises was preferred against William Harold M'Connachie and Gilbert Baird Ogilvie.—Die defendants, who pleaded not guilty, were represented by Mr C. J. Payne.—Evidence was given by Sergeant M'Carthy, who stated that about 11 o’clock on the night of April 14, he found the two defendants, in company with the licensee, upstairs in the Terminus Hotel. When witness questioned M'Connachie the latter replied that he had booked a room at the hotel early in the evening, and returned later with Ogilvie, who went upstairs at his invitation.— M'Connachie, in evidence, said be arrived from St. Bathans on the previous day, and stayed at the Robert Burns Hotel on the same night. Next day he left this hotel and went 'to Ogilvie’s home, where he had dinner and tea. He then went into town with Ogilvie. and, before going with him to see . a boxing match, booked a room at the Terminus Hotel. This room he occupied that night and for the following two nights. On returning from the boxing match he invited Ogilvie upstairs for a drink before going home, and the invitation was accepted. Evidence along these lines was also given by Ogilvie and William Dawkins, licensee of the Terminus Hotel. The licensees son, William Edward Dawkins, gave evidence that he had allotted M'Connachie a room early in the evening, the number of the room being entered in pencil.—The Magistrate said that although the evidence ■was suspicious, there was not enough to warrant a conviction. The charge against M'Connachie, therefore, would be dismissed, but Ogilvie who admitted that he had gone to the hotel to have e drink, would be fined 20s, and costs (10s). Joseph Campbell and Francis Trouson pleaded guilty to being unlawfully on licensed premises, and, as a result of these informations, David Charles Jolly, licensee of the Provincial Hotel, and his barman, William Laws ; were charged with selling liquor to outsiders during other than the regulation hours.—Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for the defendants, Jolly and Laws.—Sub-inspector Fahey said that on April 25, about mid-day. Sergeant M'Carthy found two men in the house bar. These men had drinks in front of then, which the barman. Laws, admitted selling. Jolly entered the bar some time later, and appeared surprise at seeing anyone there.—Mr Irwin said that Jolly was out in the morning, and, in fact, on the day in question, he was particularly anxious that no one should be served. —The barman in charge of the house servery had received strict instructions to serve no outsiders, and to curtail the supply of liquor to boarders. —The house porter, however, brought in two of his friends, Campbell and Dodd, for the purpose of getting them a drink, and Laws thought that as the two latter were with an employee of the hotel he was doing no harm in serving them.—A fine of 20s, and costs (10s), was imposed on Jolly, and Laws was fined £3, and costs (10s). — For being unlawfully on licensed premises, Campbell and Dodd were each fined 20s, and costs (10s). A FORGED LETTER. Stanley Burton Robertson, for whom Mr C. J. L. White appeared, was charged on remand with having, on September 7, 1926, made a false document (a letter) purporting to be signed by Charles Harrex, knowing it to be false, and with the intention that it should be acted on as genuine,—Charles Frederick Harrex, a farmer, residing at Oturehua, stated that he had known the accused for about three years. The accused, some time ago was employed by witness for one or two days. Witness did business with the D.1.C., but the letter (produced) was not written hv him.—Evidence was also given by Charles MTntyre Greenslade, who stated that on September 8, 1926. he received an order from the accused, apparently signed by Mr Harrex, and on this order the accused received goods valued at £6 19s. Ho also ordered a suit of clothes, but tliis was not supplied.—Detective