DUNEDIN POLICE COURT. Saturday, January 4.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 25

DUNEDIN POLICE COURT. Saturday, January 4.

(Before Mr O. C. Graham, S.M.) Habitual Drunkard. — Denis Coakley was charged with drunkenness, with procuring liquoir during th© currency of a prohibitionordpr, and with' entering licensed premises. — Ha pleaded " G-uiity" to the three charges.— Sub-inspector Norwood said accused was an ■odd offender. There were 33 previous convictions against him. -On November 1 lie was warned hy the presiding magistrate at the Dunedin Police .Court that unless he mended his ways he would be severely dealt with. He -then took out a prohibition order against himself, but on December 26 he was again found drunk, and three or four days ago, wnile- in an intoxicated condition, he was knocked down by a tramcar and had to be removed to the Hospital. He -wad discharged from the instituttoia, and on Friday waa arrested again for drunkenness, being then in a. state bordering on deliriunn tremens. — On th© charge of procuring liquor the -accused was fined 40s, ot one month, and for .entering licensed premises he was convicted and dischargecL On the charge of drunkenness the Magistrate decided that accused -waa an habitual drunkard under the Hebitual Drunkard' s_ Act of 1908, and sentenoed him to 12 months detention in the new Salvation Army Home at PakVtoa (Auckland). Attempted Sxiicide. — Henry Richardson pleaded " Guilty" to attempting ""to commit suicide at Oatlins- on New Year's Night. — After being -warned by the Magistrate he was convicted 1 and discharged. An Obstreperous Prisoner. — William , Craig "at present serving a sentence of six months for obscenity, assault, etc., was charged with smashing the furniture in his cell, arid" with being personally violent towards- Warder M'Grath.— The Head Gaoler stated that acoused had been' suspected of concealing "forbidden articles about his person, and refused to be searched. He was held down by th? wilder eventually, and his clothes gone ijtroujt^. S&oitly afterjjaids Warder M'Gratn.

ha 3 occasion to enter accused's cell, and" a 9 T he went in he received an ugly blow on the •temple with a piece of wood. Prisoner was most violent, but assistance was obtained and he w«cs overpowered. Prisoner broke the furniture in his cell by Iturling it against the door. He was a "thoroughly bad character.— r Sentenced to 14 clays' bread and water and, an additional term of three months' im- I prisonment with "bard labour. 1