SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21085, 9 February 1934, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

CRIMINAL SESSION 'Before his Honour Mr Justice Johnston.) REMANDED FOR SENTENCE After a retirement of three hours the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty on the first and guilty on the second of two charges against George Frank Toon, each of indecently assaulting a female. He was remanded for sentence to the close of the criminal session. WELLINGTON CASES I.P4U3S ASSOCIATION T*u*OKAU.) WELLINGTON, February 8. In the Supreme Court to-day the jury found Byron Maurice Bartley guilty of having unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl aged 15 at Wallacevillc. He was remanded for sentence. Julia May Ruddleston was tried on a charge of unlawful use of an instrument on a girl of 21. The jury retired at the luncheon adjournment to consider its verdict. ASSAULT CHARGK ASJOMA'IJOM TILKuitAU.I WELLINGTON, February 8. "(t is essential that our women si ton Id be protected, and that they should be able to walk on the streets -without being subject to assaults of this sort," said hit Honour, Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day, whan (sentencing Ronald Donaldson, labourer and miner, aged 25, to 14 dsys' imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a yovmg woman near the nurses home in December last. Donaldson was charged with indecent assault and with common assault, but ■was found guilty by the jury on the ' second count only, with a strong recommendation to mercy. A charge of unlawfully using an instrument with a viow to procuring a miscarriage, was pre/erred against Julia May Ruddlesden, alias Julia May I'rcacott, a domestic, aged 44. The jury found her guilty, With a strong recommendation to mercy. She was rc-i-;»r.dcd for sentence to-morrow. MAGISTRATE'S COURT (THURSDAY.) i He fore Mr £. D. Mosley, S.M.» THEFT OF BICYCLE rv-rcival William Campbell. a labourer, aged 29, pleaded guilty to a charge that on February 0 hei stole a bicycle, the property of Ralph Graham. Sub-Inspector G. B. Edwards said 1 hat the bicycle was stolen from the city and recovered in the possession of the accused, who had scraped ° the transfers and hidden the bell and other accessories under his bed in a bach In the city. The explanation of the accused was that he wanted the bicycle to go into the country to find work, . Mr Mosley: You have been in Christ- , church for a long enough penod to realise how bicycle thieves are dealt Sub-Inspector Edwards: B'cy c j le thieving is very prevalent at piesei t. Mr Mosley: Terribly prevalent I The accused was convicted and sen frnic-orJ to iMpmonment for one month.

INDECENT LANGUAGE Marjorle Oliver, aged 44, pleaded not guilty to a charge that she used indecent language in Latimer square on February 5. A constable, who heard the language complained of, said that when he arrested the accused she was under the influence of liquor, but was not drunk enough to lock up. ' The accused said that she had been E assaulted and robbed in Latimer square 1 by another woman and had lost cont trol of herself through fright. She had " had her collarbone broken in the i struggle. I Mr Mosley said that it was obvious that the woman's collarbone had been broken and this bore out her story. She ought to have hospital treatment. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. SALE OF LIQUOR AFTER HOURS Albert Meredith Chivers, licensee of the Bower Hotel (Mr G. W. Smithson), pleaded guilty to charges of selling > liquor after hours and opening his premises for the sale of liquor after hours. Sub-Inspector Edwards said that two men had called at the Bower Hotel on December 31, 1933. and had obtained liquor after hours. Shortly after leaving the hotel one of them, riding a motor-cycle, had been involved in a collision. This was Chivers' first offence. , , , Mr Smithson said that Chivers had an excellent record as a licensee. He I asked that the fact that the offence had been committed on New Year s I Eve might be taken into considera- | * The magistrate said that defendant, who was in his licensing district, had always had excellent reports. But even though the offence had been committed on New Year's Eve, the most excusable time of all, the lav/ had still been broken. Chivers was fined 20s and costs on the first charge. The second charge was withdrawn. ON LICENSEp PREMISES Walter Bernard James, Walter Newey. and Joseph Sloan were charged with being on the licensed premises of the Royal Hotel hours. Newey pleaded guilty and Sloan and James not guilty. The constable who arrested the accused said that he had found them in a room at the hotel with the light turned off. . ~n . Each of the accused was fined 20and costs. CIVIL COURT I Before Mr H. A. Young. S.JVi.i JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases: James Johnston, Ltd. v. W. H. Stokes, £2 16s 8d; Commissioner of Taxes v. Alfred Joseph Vizer, costs only; iredericlc Henry Ashton v. Mrs Rose Smither, 9s lOd: Commissioner of Taxes v. John Allan Anderson, ill Ws lOd; Williams and White v. A. G. Lime, £2 2s: E. L. McKcon. Ltd v. Joseph Dyer, £2 5s 8d; S. W. Deat v. F. G. Khnbell, £7 10s; V\. Khoa and J. R. Knox v. F'. G. Kimbell, £~ 8s 9d; Union Assurance Society Ltd. v. Sleeman and Larcombe, £o ds od, Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. v. n. J Jacobs, £lO ss; James F. McKendry v R. M. Franklin, £6; H. H. Wauchop. Ltd. v. Willis, Ltd., coats only. JUDGMENT SUMMONS P. Stewart was ordered to pay W. R. Furniss, as assignee of G. K. Biurowes, the sum of £1 0s bd forthwith, . in default three days' imprisonment Robert N. Macready was ordered to oay James Johnston, Ltd., the sum ol P E i is forthwith, in default three ( clays' imprisonment. CLAIMS UPHELP Judgment was given for plaintiff for. j £ 3 and costs in a case in which K. More and Company, Ltd., claimed from S. W. Smith, fruiterer, of Ferry i road, £4, the amount due lot the i

j hire of a short wave converter from t February 4, 1933, to June 23, 1933, at . the rate of £1 a month, i Judgment for plaintiff with costs was given in the case in which R. A. . Stewart, farmer, of Templcton, claimed : from J. James, also a farmer of • Templetori, the possession of one disc t plough valued at £8 10s, detained by defendant from October, 1930, to Oci tober, 1933. Defendant was non-suited in a ■ counter-claim for property valued at I £3 Is, detained by plaintiff from 1920, : and various times thereafter.