POLICE COURT NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 4

POLICE COURT NEWS

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS VARIOUS OFFENDERS DEALT WITH. Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided over yesterday's sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. Gustuv Wilhelm Lhidbcrg, for his third olfenco i'or drunkenness, was fined £"i, in default lie is to bo imprisoned for sevou days. A STBEHT FIGHT. Henry Joseph Duiidon and Henry Haxford, ivilo engaged in a fight in Cuba street on Thursday evening, were each convicted and fined 10s, in delauit ot payment to bo detained in prison for twenty-four hours. sub-inspector Fmonson said the men had an argument, which led to blows. The arhui was not a eorious one. It.fc.SISTJ.NG THE POLICE,

Malcolm McLeod, who stated that he was so drunit that lie hud no recoueeiiun ol resisting Constable William carran. »

The constable said that the accused kicked him several tiir.ou on thn ulnns while he was escorting him tu tuu po.ico station. A tine of M'2 was imposed. STOWED AWAY.

August Hatmen, who said ho was a scaiiiini, pleaded guilty to travelling from .Napier to Wellington on tue MupouriKu without paying ins tare. Jsuo-liuipector u-muition said that, after the Aiapoanka left Napier, tne accused was found stowed away on boara. xte exp.amed that ho had been una bio to securu employment at Napier,' so he came on to. Wellington in order to get work. The faro from Napier to neLmgion was ltis, and.tuo cteiendant had lis Id in tus possession when arrested.

-Uaimeu, m answer to tha court, Baid ue was desirous of going' to Wairoa croni Napier, - but tue vessel that traded between the poits eou;d not. get out on account of bad weather. The accused was convicted and lined £i, ordered to pay cao laro (lbs), in de.ault to be imprisoned for seven days. OTHER CHARGES. (Before -Mr W. U.- Riddeil, S.M.; • Leonard Patrick Uehir, for threat enmg behaviour in .Stout street, wiiereby a breach of the peace was occasioned, wau convicted and fined £l, and was given the alternative 01 going to prison for 48 hours.

Harold V'enour, on a charge of committing' an indecent act, wifli intont to insult or annoy certain persons unknown, ■was remanded for a week, as was Daniel' Andrew Williams on a charge of stealing an overcoat valued at X,o, the property of William Squires. • EVADING DRILL. . For being absent from military parades', W. Goodwin was fined £3 r * costs 7s; H. W. Bailey, W. W. McCoy, W. E. Toomcr, and W. G. Fitzgerald, each £2, costs 7s; B. Anderson, £l, casts 7s; E. H. Albrecht and A. G. Reid, each 10s, 7s. BOARDING A MOVTNG TRAIN. E. E. "(Tonkins, -who. attempted, to got upon a traiu whilst'-it -was in motion, was ordered to pay -7s ■ costs. . Sub-liu>pcctor Emerson eaid the defendant tried to board a train -when it was moving out troni a station, and was stopped by a railway porter. Ho eluded .the porter, and made a second dive for a carriage. Jenkins was only seventeen years of age. ALIENS. . E. H. Vadala and G. Vadala, his rivife, wore each charged with, failing to register "under tlio Aliens Act. Tho maio - accused produced documents to show that ho had been naturalised in Australia, several years ago. He was an Italian by birth, but his wife was English. The magistrate .- explained that a naturalisation certificate issued in Australia did not hold good in Now Zealand, and that Mrs V.adakt, despite the fact that she was a Bntifih-borii subject, 'became a foreigner when sho married one.

Sub-Inspector Emerson fiaid that tho department did not ask that a penalty ba imposed. The action,' he said, was brought in order that foreignens who had. been granted naturalisation papers in other British possessions—and thefo wero a fair number of them in New Zealand—might learn that they wore required to register under the Aliens Act in the Dbminion.

Each accused wao convicted and ordered to pay costs.