POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10916, 4 November 1913, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S INEBRIATES. A WAR-SOARRED OFFENDER. A man whose lineaments bore all the gory' marks of a recent fight appeared before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day, charged with having, for the first time within six months, looked on the beer when it was brown. " You're a nice-looking object," said Mr Bishop. " What have you been doing?" "I have hurt myself," answered the bloodstained one. "That's what you get for being drunk," admonished the Magistrate. " You are convicted and discharged. Michael O'Connor, who had broken liis order to get a drink, was fined 20s, in default fourteen days 6eclusion, and threatened with Pakatoa. QUITE DIGNIFIED. A cough and a stutter represented the clerk's attempt at pronouncing Elizabeth Gamberazzi's name. She entered the dock with a dignified air, and graciously permitted herself to be charged with having wilfully broken a window, valued at 10s, the property of W. J. Edgar. ; " Guilty I" she admitted; " but I had great provocation. I lost my temper." Senior Sergeant Mathieson said that the choleric lady had stored her furniture in Edgar's house. The latter made a charge of Id a week for the privilege, and Elizabeth got out her Irish and broke his window.

"She has "a funny name," remarked Mr Bishop. "What nationality is sheP" J

"My husband is half-Italian," said Elizabeth, not, however, mentioning which half.

Edgar said that the accused had left some furniture in his house, and he was charging her £1 for the time. She thought that too much, ■ and tried to get the sticks by force.'' " Who is she?" asked the Magistrate. " Where does she live ?" " She used to live on Moorhouse Avenue," responded Edgar. She was fined 5s and ordered fco pay 10s ( the cost of the window. An application for sureties of the peace was refused. BACK TO DUNEDIN. Joseph Herbert Gwynn breasted up to the dock to answer charges of being an idle and disorderly person, having no lawful visible means of support, and of haying failed to maintain his wife and child at Ihiiiedin. The case of failure to maintain was remanded to Dunedin, and Mr Bishop ordered that the idle and disorderly charge shouM be withdrawn, since, he said, it was impossible for aocusea to provide for his family if he were gaoled. QUICK WORK. Two minutes sufficed to saddle ihomas Jiidward Hudson with a paywife*' a weo k 6U PPort of his UREN'S CONTRIBUTION. ♦ William Uren refused to pay anything towards the support of his eeYenty-one-year-old invalid mother. He said that Mr Hunt was engaged to appear for him, but when, at the end of the list, that gentleman had not appeared the case was proceeded wii/h m his absence. Mr Cuningham, in support of the order, said that there was a family of six sons and a 1 the rest contributed, each ss,a month, escept defendant. 4 iT®aS° S ' def r daHt «a.id he earned £2 14s 6d a week. jae was married and had five children, aged three, eight, twelve, seventeen and twenty years. The eldest, a bov was a gentleman of leisure at present, work not bemg available and had been in that delectable condition for several months. The seventeen-year-old girl was domesticated and drew 9s a wlek in service.

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