POLICE COURT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12065, 21 July 1917, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TO-DAY'S CASE?: (Before Mr v\yver.i Wilson, S.M.) ' '.DRrXKEN-XT'SS. A first offender, ior drunkenness.. xras fined 5». REMANDED. John Walker. Tnnpcki, ;i Maori, was further cJ to Southbridjie on J"iv 27. ">vitn the theft- of £3 ?s Od, xho property of Thomas Riordar.. THEFT. Hermann Wind plvsdtd not guilty to the theft of 4m 5-.]. ih*- property c>i V, u- i liam Henry I>i:>.on. The complainant-, Dixon, stated .that- ho ws& a carpenter working at Brighton. He had hung ilia coat ir. thf h's.l! "'itl: hi? :r.o:>--y. He saw Wind loii vtug the section j and j on missing hie mnncv informed th? ■ police. EvicUnes by IX L. i Jones. Dixon'.■» employer. and thv- loo*. : constable. Wind, on c&th. denied the | offence. The Magi*tra-:\ /.irev mm- ' examining the neeusfd. b• ij proved, ren-arkin;;: th- ' tiii «'a: «o mean that v ''.- going to *er;d -.•hs? , accused to £aol. 'Me- hid i. ioa;_: recorvi ■ of theft and drm:kena<?. 4 s. He would b* • gentsncea to seven day/ imprisonment. j A SER-TOUS CHARGE. | Henry Maihev/<, r.'th indecent assa-ilt on a. voale. was remanded till Wednesday, ths polio:,- y.atin.4 ; that he had only been arreted this j morning. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY. ' At a sitting or the Juvenile Csmrt. .a boy of fourte&n, who \.-< j pt lively, pleaded" guilty to ttro charges of iadecc'.v« exposure, on consecutive days. Th* Magistrate had read the report-. jwbicb was not commented on by the poLce. Sub-Inspector Mulla-ny said that nothing vras ktiovrn about fcho boy. ~ho ba4 be®n in good employment in ai. office, and was a choir boy. The Magistrate said that if the boy vas morbid he would he better in the country, in the compary of nth-?:* boys. The Magistrate said that it did ver? little good to deal lenierit-ly with lads who misbehaved themselves, and it teemed to be a case for Weraroa„ The father, hi reply to a- question, eaid that he bad not yet punished the bov. '•lf he was my boy." said the F. Ryl® 5 probation officer, ''there would bo no need to punish him; T would-have done it myself before this." "That is the trouble,;' said tha Magistrate. ;; Parents brine children up without the remotest idea of their responsibilities, and let them contract bad- habits." After hearing t-he boy's employer and the father, who said he had two sons &,t the front, the Magistrate very severely warned the boy that on his next appearance he would ha birched and committed to Wereroa boys' farm.