POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10925, 14 November 1913, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M.) DROUGHT. Three red-faced men filed, one after another, into the dock at the Magistrate's Court to-day, and were charged with drunkenness. All were from the country, and the two who were fined 6s, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment apieca, betrayed depleted exchequers by asking for time to ilnd the money. The third was convicted and discharged, as he had been in gaol for some time. A BOHEMIAN. A wild-looking dervish named George Branty, with a flowing beard, woolly hair and tattered robes, pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly and having insufficient lawful means of support. " He has a bad record," said Senior Sergeant Mathieson. "He has eleven or twelve previous convictions. He is one of those men who, between spells in gaol, wander about the country and sleep in I doubt whether he is in His right mind. 3 ' Branty was thrown on the State for three months at Lyttelton. WANTS MONEY, NOT HUSBAND. " Don't want Marshall, want money," was the text of the epigrammatic telegram which the wife of William Henry of that surname sent Mr A. T. Donnelly when the latter offered to mail back tho defaulting one, who had piled up large arrears on a maintenance order in support of his wife. " She will take £SO in satisfaction of the arrears," said Mr Donnelly. The unloved one was ordered to pay the £SO. __________