COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1928, Page 7

COURT NEWS.

LONDON, Aug. 10. Little Willie, aged 9, was sent by bis mother to do the morning shopping and she gave him Is, in two-shilling pieces, which, being a careful and cautious boy, he put into his stocking. Willie was a proud little boy, and be felt so superior to other small boys that he was glad to be recognised by a really grown-up boy in Geoife, the van-boy aged 1(5. “Where are you going?” inquired George graciously. “Shopping,” replied Willie, glowing with the pride of being trusted and the joy of being recognised by a superior being. “You’ve goet to lie careful shopping in Camden Town,” said George ly‘Wes, I know, ” conceded Willie eagerly. “That is why J put the money in my stocking. For the next few minutes Willie was the most suprised boy in Camden Town. He was so busy playing at whirlwinds with George that he did not realise what had happened until both stockings were pulled down over his hoots and George and the -Is had gono.

» « * # i But Willie, although, young is observant. Spurred on by the entreaties and commands of an anxious mother he spent the first few days of his holiday looking for George whom he ultimately found in Regent Park. For an hour “Willie played at Red Indians and tracked George right into tiie arms of a policeman. Willie was disappointed because the constable did not immediately scalp George, who, trembling in the dock at Mnrylebone Police Court yesterday, and he was guilty and please he would not do it again. George’s mother, of whom George ought to be proud ,tearfully gave him a good character, and Mr Sandbach, the magistrate, after thoroughly frightening George by telling him that highway robbery was a felony that could be punished with penal servitude and the cat, sent him home to her. »**•**., Cyclists and P.C. 386 Y do not like Charles, Kentish Town youth who also is not popular at .home. Charles on his part does not like anybody, not even the court , missionary, who has given him good adivee at his mother’s earnest request for juany .montns. • Charles, who has been out of work for months, spends Ris generous spare time in throwing pieces of wood pierced with nails into the track of passing € y C |J§£ J 5 t “Don’t do it,” ordered P.C. 386 Y as he listened sympathetically to the comments of an aggrieved cyclits, who had missed one of Charles’s tyre traps by inches. “You mind your own business,” retorted Charles, breaking off a likely piece of nail-studded wood from a soap-box. P.C. 386 Y" looked at Charles as stern Victorian fathers used to look at their erring offspring and -restraining a Victorian tendency to apply unto Charles the methods of Solomon, who spoke so wisely about not sparing the rod, went in search of another constable. Between them they .removed, Charles, to the joy of his mother, the relief c'f cyclists, and the satisfaction of the neighbours. The court missionary, who thought that Charles was too bad to be normal, suggested a doctor’s report, and the magistrate learning that Charles could not pay a 10s fine promptly sent him to a place where he will be medically examined. What Charles really needs is a ten minutes unofficial interview with P.C. Y 383, who would gladly impart into him much that would be to his advantage.

F * * A worried father anxiously inquired what he should do with his son aged 27, who would not work. “Turn him out,” suggested the magistrate. •‘Turn him out I” echoed the worried parent. “Why. he L bigger than a poiiceuin a ’•'' •* * * * « “My neighbour shouts at me,” complained a large' woman with a treble voice. “Shout louder,” advised Mr Cairns, wiping the perspiration lroni his forehead. x “Mv husband never drinks, and I am a teetotaller,” declared a middleaged woman, “and this person (pointing to a nervous old man) knocked me down in the passage. “I am "2 and still working,’’ observed the old man, “and I never knocked nobody down no passage in my life.” “You drink every Thursday,” said the neighbouring teetotaller. “That is my lucky day,” agreed the old man. “Trv to he decent to each other for a week,” suggested the magistrate. “Mav-V it is the hot weather.” i

Kidney, softly soliloquised, walked into Leman-street Police Station. “Get out,” ordered the sergeant-in-ehar< r o. “Don’t be t rude,” said Sidney, taking an uninvited seat. “Clmek him out.” said the sergeant to a constable. Sidney was promptly thrown out. but was back again almost as soon as the constable, whereupon he was accepted as a paying guest. “The homing instinct,’’ decided Mr Cairns as he made out a bill for os.