POLICE COURT

Southland Times, Issue 19896, 15 June 1926, Page 4

POLICE COURT

YESTERDAY’S SHEET. DESERTER FROM SHIP CHARGED. To a charge of unlawful desertion from the sjs. Ruapehu at Bluff on June 8 a man named Charles Samuel Grosser pleaded guilty at a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Mr G. Cruicksbank, S.M., was on the bench. In an outline of the case Senior-Sergeant Scandrett, who appeared for the poEce, said that Grosser signed on for the round trip by the Ruapehu but left the vesseel while she was lying at Bluff. The Ruapehu was at present in New’ Plymouth, but would be in Lyttelton on June 21. After perusing the Act under which Grosser was charged the Magistrate sentenced him to 14 days’ imprisonment and ordered him to be returned to his ship. Mr L. W. Spencer, manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, said that the company was willing to return the man to the boat and had intended sending him north, next morning. The Magistrate therefore struck out the sentence imprisonment and ordered Grosser to pay the cost of his passage back to the ship. BAD LANGUAGE AND DRUNKENNESS. A man 23 years of age pleaded guilty to charges of being found drunk in Eek street on June 13 and also to using obscene language. Senior-Sergeant Scandrett said that at about 12.30 on Sunday morning a constable saw the accused at Lewises corner in a drunken condition and advised him to go home. Defendant did not do so and later became so noisy that the constable found it necessary to arrest him, and while this was being done defendant used the language complained of. Defendant had not been before the Court before. Defendant was convicted and discharged on the first charge and on the second was convicted and fined £2. On his own application an order for the suppression of his name was granted.