POLICE COURT

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1656, 24 January 1906, Page 3

POLICE COURT

A considerable amount of business was dealt with at the Police Court yesterday before Mr Barton, S.M. Frances Percy Ebbs ploaded guilty to drunkenness, and also to breaking three panes of glass in a house owned by Captain Tucker. Defendant was fined 53 for drunkennoss, and 10s on the second charge, withco3t3 amounting to 14?, Thore were numerous oases of breaches | of tho bye-laws. James Grant was fined 10s, and 7s costs, for driving aaross tho Kaiti bridge at okhec than a walking paoe.

■William Charles Campbell, drover, wi fined 10?, nud 7s costs, for driving oatt through the stroets between 9 am. and p.m. without the Town Clerk’s permisaioi Tbo contention lhat ho had a genernl pel mission to diivo oattlo at any hour wa not sustained, and defendant then ploado guilty. W. A. O’Meara, morohant, was finoa 10s and 7s oosts, for obstructing tbo fcolpatl by nllowing goods to remain thoroon. Bcr goant MoKonzio said the polioo did no want to press unduly in the matter, bu intimated that proseoutious would, follow iu the case of goods that wore allowod tc remain for an unreasonable t'me. Dofeii' daat explained that tbo goods wore left out In tlio belief that a ooaoh would piok t ear up almost immediately. Tho ooach had not come until some timo lator. Arthur Oaloott, Thomas Poroival Vosper, Daniel Tyc, and Pottar, wore oaoh fined 10s, aud 7s costs, for riding bicycles along foothpaths, and John Hudson was fined a liko sum for oyoliug across tho Reoreation ground footbridge. George Pollock, wheelwright, was fined £l, end 7s ooßts, on the information of Edgar Swinnerton, for allowing a vioious dog to bo loose in a yard off Peel street, thus endangering plaintiff’s limbs, and oausing damage to his olothes, Tho do fendant explained that tbo dog had been angored by children playing with its pups ; tho animal had sinoo been destroyed. His Worship said that suoh dogs should be kept on tho ohaiD. Charlos Siugle, To Karaka, pleaded guilty to throe charges of procuring liquor _ while under a prohibition order. “Mr Blair asked for olemenoy for aoousod, who had observed the order for six months, and had then broken out ngait), tho temptation being too great. His Worship said the breaches were moat impudent. A fine of jE 10, and 7s oosts, was imposed in the first case, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment in Napier gaol. In eaoh of the other two oases the fino3 were ifil, and 7s costs, or 48 hours’ imprisonment, the sentences to bo concurrent. Angus Fraser was fined 10s, and 7s oosts, for working a horse with a aoro back. Defendant explained that the horse had only been worked four days after a six w eke' spell. When he took the hetbj out that day its baok was not bad, but the Wainui read was so rough that the sore had been quiokly caused, a'though he had taken precaution! to prevent rubbiog j