POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 3 February 1905, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

I THIS DAY. (Before Mr F. G. Clayton, J.P.) Drunkenness' Charges. —Duncan McDougall, convicted of drunkenness for the second time within six months, was fined 10/ or 48 hours. One of the defendants charged with inebriety was a woman, whom it was deemed advisable to remand for a week to be medically treated. Charles McFadden was charged with drunkenness and also with being an idle and disorderly person who consorted with reputed thieves and prostitutes. Upon the application of the police he was remanded until Monday. The Corners. —Charles Spinley, a coachman, was fined 10/ and costs for driving at other than a walking pace around the corner of Queen and Wellesley streets. (Before Mr H. S. Wardell, S.M.) Alleged Theft. — Arthur William Thornton was charged with stealing £0 from the person of Henry James Ford on February 2nd, and upon the application of the police be was remanded in custody until Wednesday, Sub-inspector Black stating that £4 of the money had not been recovered. Theft from a Daughter.—An old woman named Bridget Negas was charged with stealing £1 2/C from the dwelling of Thomas Hope yesterday. The prosecutor's wife 3aid that Mrs Negas was her mother, and lived with them at Nel-son-street. The sum of £1 2/C was left by witness in a small tin box under her pillow, and when her husband asked for the money it was missed. She admitted that the box might have been taken to the accused's room by a child in the house. Further «vidence was to the effect that a constable was called to the bouse and Mrs Negas denied the theft. She was searched, and a fcl note found upon her as well as 1/3 in her stocking. Before the constable came she had been out to make some small purchases. Mrs Negas admitted to the magistrate that she had the money, but eaid she intended giving it to her son-in-law. The prosecutor did not press the case, and she was convicted and discharged. A Youth's Chance.—A youth named Frederick Sheeran, who had been brought up for sentence on a charge of theft, which occurred in December, and had been remanded in custody for a week, came before the magistrate to be finally dealt with. The accused had been brought up for sentence in consequence of being concerned in a charge of inciting persons to resist the police. Mr Wardell reminded him that he had not yet been sentenced on the theft charge, and he would be given another chance. He was cautioned to fight shy of bad companions, and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon.