POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11025, 13 March 1914, Page 1

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S CASES. (Before Mr T. A. B. Bailer, S.M.) DRINK. " Sweet t" was the laconic comment of a first offender when he was fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness. Three male first offenders were each fined ss, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, and three others were fined-10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Malcolm Brown, who had been drunk in charge of a. hoiae and cart, Tvas fiued 10s and costs. William , Hill pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and of having assaulted Sergeant Stewart. SeuiorSergeant Mathieson said that the accused had inflicted a nasty.wound on the sergeant while the latter was arresting him. He ,was fined 5s for drunkennes and 10s for the assault, with the usual alternatives, and was ordered to pay 10s, the sergeant's medical expenses. . OBSCENITY. Edwin Charles Sadler, for obscenity in a public place, was fined 10s, in default • forty-eight hours' imprisonment. AN UNFORTUNATE FOREIGNER. The clerk of the Court stood up like a man to the task of pronouncing the name of Hyahmar Soderstrom, who was charged with drunkenness and with having (stolen an overcoat valued at 20s. The accused was fined 10s, m default forty-eight horns' imprisonment, for drunkenness, and remanded for a week on the other charge. f ANNIE, THE KLEPTOMANTAC. A lachrymose atmosphere was created in Court/by tho case, in which Airiio Barron, a young woman., was charged with having on March 1-' stolen an auto-harp, the property of Owen, a second-hand denier at Sydenham. Owon sajfl that- he- bad nussnd the harp from bis shop in Sydenham, and Constable Williams said tliat he had found it in the accused's possession. An old grey-bearded man in the 1-ndy of the Court uttered heart-broken ejaculations to the effect that slit! was his daughter, but could throw no lighten trie subject. He asked that the girl should be put in Mount Masdna, as she "was '' no good." He wept. His daughter wept. The girl was sent lo Mount Magdala i for six months.