POLICE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 168, 13 June 1902, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

rHUBSDAY, 12th JuDe.—Before Mr It. I L. Stanford, S,\l. j William 'fumpleton Wallace was charged with desertion from tbe soow | Surprise at Waitara, aud on a second charge of obtainiDg the sum of £6 by fal-e pretencec. | Sergeant Haddrell paid he was nut i prepared tj go on till tbe mail cams! in, and asked for a short adjourdment. Mr Govatt said that in this case he was instiucteJ tLat prisoner had couiuj into town, and was actually oo his way to the train to return to his thip when he was arrested. | Prisoner said he had no inlention whatever of deserting, and the motwy wiis an advance of He hud olten done tbe same thing before. Subsequently b.th cburgis wero withdrawn on the application of Mr Govatt, who apjei'td for both parties. Leonard Hargraves was brought up as being iocoriig:ibh\ Sergeant Haddrell said the boy'* faihei 1 was a widower and unable to do anything with the biy, at.d ho asked that ho ba sent to an iudus rial school. He colled thj boy's father, Thoma* Hargnavis, who, being s*orn, said he was away at woik all day, imd left the boy to go to school, instead of which he knojfced about tbo htr.ets till ah hours of a night, lie thjn gave hvidence of his posi'.fon, and stid hs wile l ad te<n dead two yeais, and hisj daugh'er, 13 years of ajp, looked after thn house. To Mi Gotfttt, whj nppeircd for the Charitable Aid Board, witcess sa"d h* had twieo placed ih<3 toy on n firm. Mr Govett submiiied tha". this was a casi, where the father should pay a small sum. The S.M.. Paid the boy would be sent to tin Wellington Receiving Home, to be b. ought up in the Uhurch of England f *itb ; the father to pay 3s a w<nk towards his keep.