SHANNON POLICE COURT.

Shannon News, 1 August 1924, Page 3

SHANNON POLICE COURT.

Jas Edward Skinner on a charge of ibeing drunk and disorderly on Um Napier and i\ew Plymouth mail trains was convicted a<nd fined £2 in default one mjonths' |imj>risonment. Mr E. spencer, J.P., presided. Before Messrs W.» Taylor and E. Spencer, J.'sP., the following wore dealt with:—

ffhomas )Qrjossle<y, for drunkenness,- was fined iOs or 24 hours imprisonment. Charles Robert Weight, for using obscene language in Ballance street, to which he pleaded guilty, was convicted and .fined £3, in defaiuat one month's imprisonment. The Bench remarked that obsoene language was far too prevalent and such offenders had to be severely punished. A first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s or 24 hours imprisonment. '

Percy Joseph Cashman .appeared to answer charges of disorderly behaviour while drunk, .resisting arrest and using obscene language. He pleaded guilty to the two former charges and not guilty *to the latter. Constable McGregor, in giving evidence, stated accused was in a garaga in Ballance street looking for. trouble. He was requested to. leave and on going'out started to abuse a mam named Ne&le, using insulting and. threatening language. Hie refused to go away when requested and continued to abuse the police and make himself a nuisance. He had resisted arrest violently and had to be .handcuffed and had used the language complained of repeatedly, while being taken to the police station. He was an old offender. The Bench, in convicting the accujsed, said thei offence wag serio.us, but as accused Was a married mam with four children, they did not wish to send him to prison. For using obscene language he wofuld be fined £5, in default one month's gaol; resisting the police, fined £5 in default one month; and drunk and disorderly, fined £3, in default one month in gaol. The default sentences are to be cumulative.. Accused was allowed one month in which to partite fines.

Jas. Clark, alias Jas. Swanson, who was arrested by Constable McGregor, on Wednesday for wilfully trespassing in the dwelling of Thos., Ingley, appeared before Messrs Spencer and Crunnimj, J.'sP., yesterday morning, and pleaded guilty.- He was .sentenced to ohe ■ month's (imprisonment. Constable McGregor stated to the 1 Bench that) Clark, who was under the influence of liquor, walked into | Mr Ingley's -house when Mrs Ingley was alone and refused to leave when requested to. do so. Mrs Ingley left! the house and went to her husband, who was working at the far end of the farm and informed him. Mr Ing-1 ley returned to the house and put Clark out on to the road. The accused went down the road a short distance and went iii at the gate of an adjoining property } and through the fence 'returning 40. the house, which he again entered by the back door. Hie Avas allowed to remain, and Mr ingley telephoned to the police who came and arrested him.

On June 10th last at Shannon the accused was convicted for being an idle and disorderly person and was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months., conditionally that •he went to work and behaved himself. For breaking these conditions he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The sentence to be cumulative with the'above.