POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 194, 15 August 1907, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Messrs. J. Jamieson and J. Ziman, J.'sP.) Inebriate. — The tipplers just escaped being conspicuous by their absence, one first offender being the only appearance, he being discharged upon payment of the cab-hire.

Obstreperous.—Jacob Hansen, convicted of behaving in Custom-street last night in a manner ill-conducive to a sober and reputable citizen, was fined £1 and costs.

By-Jaw Infringeinjent.—Edward Markey, for leaving a cart standing in Karunreasonably long, was fijied 5/ and costs 11. ■

The Wrong Target.—Three diminutive boys were trying their expertness at stone throwing a few days ago, an iron fence being the target. A number of the missiles, however, failed to find their intended billet, the trajectory being apparently too high, with the result that a window in ;! a building to the rearward was damaged to the extent of 5/. The parents of the young stone-throwers indemnified the owner, and the Justices warned the lads about the danger of such promiscuous target practice, discharging them on a promise in concert not to repeat the assault.

Marital Infelicity.—A young man named William Murray was convicted of striking his wife, Letitia, and afterwards of resisting the arresting constable, and damaging his shako. The wife complained that she had obtained a bottle of beer from a publicbouse, and. on the way home her husband came lip and demanded a drink. She gave him a drink from the bottle, and then, for some unexplained reason, he -turned and struck her several times. The ■woman then related the story of their short domestic life.—a squalid tale—interrupted at intervals by reference to still more I unlovely depths within the deep on the part of the accused spouse. Their Worships decided to send Murray to gaol for two months, the attack on his wife, whatever the occasion, being • .proved a particularly brutal one.

The Descent to Avernus.—Ethel Chappell, a young girl with an ill-savoured reputation, inherited from her forbears, and extending perilously unto the fourth generation, was sent to gaol for three months, her rapidly built array of previous convictions barring the way to consignment to a reforming home.