POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11805, 16 September 1916, Page 9

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S CASES. (Before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. Florence Elsie Neville, charged with drunkennesss, was committed to Pai\atoa' Inebriates' Home, for twelve months. ~ , Joseph Brownlev, lor his lourtn offence for drunkenness, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. Christopher Inkster, charged with drunkenness and breach of a prohibition order, was remanded for a wcck. REMANDED. Edward Johnston was charged with failing to provide for his wife. Mr Cassidy said that Johnston was aged seventy, and had been paying I.os a week' to his wife for sixteen years. His wife had applied for a pension, and the Department had stated that the husband should provide a<h epiate maintenance. A remand was granted for a week, Johnston being released on his own recognisances. YOUNG WOMAN'S .LAPSE. Amv Adelaide M'Minn, whose ago was given at twenty-two, p:o:.;ded guiJt.v to the theft of a diamond and sapphire ring valued at fcio, the property of Isabella Phillips. Chief Detective Herbert said that the girl had pawned the ring for ,C2. She "stole it' from a boarding-house while the owner was away from her room. She was gamp; to the dogs, and had stayed put. all nighty and come home drunk one morning. There were cigarette slumps and linuor bottles in her room. The accused wa.s convicted and ordered to come up for semcnce when called on, conditionally on her >;oing to tho Salvation Army Home.