POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1905, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Mr H. S. Wardell, S.M.) The Prohibited.—Two prohibited persons, Emma Skiventon and Charles James Menzies, were charged with breaches of the order. Mrs Skiventon, who was also convicted of drunkenness for the fourth time within six months, had only been out of gaol a few weeks after serving six months' imprisonment, was seen going into the Commercial Hotel by Constable Lipscombe, who said he thought she was making a round on the lookout for drinks, and followed her after she left the hotel. He then saw her enter the Criterion Hotel, from which she was promptly turned away. A third breach of the order was committed by tbe defendant on February 9th, when a constable found ber in a passage of the Swan Hotel, Parnell. Here again she was known to the licensee, who ordered her off the premises. The magistrate looked at Mrs Skiventon'a record, and surmised that but for her last sentence she would have been convicted oftener. "I've had seven days, and three months as well," interrupted the defendant, whose record was further extended by one month. Menzies was convicted and discharged, the magistrate stating that he had had a good record since the order was issued.

Drunkards.—A firs* offending drunkard was remanded for a week to be medically treated, and two others were discharged upon paying the costs. Claude Reach, a young man who pleaded not guilty to being drunk in charge of a horse at. Newmarket on Saturday, was convicted and fined £3 or a month's imprisonment. A Missing Dingey—A fisherman named James Reid, who alleged in the Police Court this morning that he picked up a yacht's dingey at North Shore and could not find an owner for it, was charged with stealing tbe boat, which was the property of George Seagar, and wortli f 7 10/. Mr Seagar said the ?__t was taken from outside a shed near his engineering works in June last. In January, hearing that a similar boat bad been seen at Rangitoto quarry, be went there and found it. A boy informed the court that several months ago be saw Mr Seagar's dingey on Reid's boat. "I had the dingey for months and could not find an owner for it," said the accused when lie heard the boy's statement. George Rcston then gave evidence that he claimed for the owner tbe boat from Reid on December 17th, and was refused possession unless the accused was paid 10/ for looking after it. Evidence was given by a quarry-man named Albert Victor McCaskic that some weeks ago he bought tbe dingey from Reid for £2. Reid asked the magistrate for a remand so that bo could prove picking up the dingey in the harbour, and the case was ac-cordincrlv adjourned for a week.

Prohibkion Order.—Samuel Joseph was made tlie subject of a prohihitioib order upon his wife's application. v

A Lost Temper.—A Salvation Army officer named James Wilson charged John Galhraith with using insulting language in Wellesley-street, and causing a breach of the peace. The complainant said that in the People's Palace' this merning he had to caution Galhraith for using improper language, and when the accused saw him outside subsequently he made as if to strike him, using an offensive expression. Witness held him off, warding off a blow, and Galhraith grabbed him by the coat collar, tearing off several huttons. District Constable Eowe said he witnessed the incident and arrested Galbraith when he refused to go away. The defendant said that the complainant wropgly accused him of using bad language, and poked him in tbe face when they talked about it outside. He then had to grasp the complainant in self-defence. "You lost your temper altogether," said the magistrate, who fined him £2 or 7 days' imprisonment.